MediaMemo is hearing from “multiple people familiar with the company” that the networks behind Hulu, NBC, FOX, and ABC, are still contemplating a version of Hulu for Apple’s iPad — but as a subscription service.

The problem is figuring out a way to keep the existing site free while adding new bells and whistles that consumers pay for. One idea the company and its backers like: Turning Hulu from a "one screen" service–one you're only supposed to watch on your computer–to a "three screen" offering by adding support for TVs and mobile devices.

The “problem” is Big Media still thinks it’s 1960 and fails to show any understanding or imagination when it comes to re-invisioning themselves for 2010’s mobile, portable, ubiquitously connected culture.

But whatever. Would you pay a subscription to get a premium version of Hulu on your iPad?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

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Apple has changed MobileMe’s me.com site, previously inaccessible from iPhone or iPod touch Safari, to not only allow access to Find My iPhone, but to offer help in setting up accounts and getting additional apps. iTunes Preview, meanwhile, has duplicated even more of the media and app browsing experience on the web by adding support for categories.

First up, when you used to go to http://www.me.com on your iPhone, you used to see an intercept page telling you to set up the services on your iPhone and that was it. Now the new page (above) has a link to setting up those services, a direct link to Find my iPhone, and links for getting Apple’s free Gallery and iDisk App Store apps.

Obviously, Find My iPhone from an iPhone or iPod touch (or iPad, as we presume that’s what Apple is setting all this up for) is the Big News here. The link itself is a bit clunky still and the Find My iPhone page hasn’t been optimized for the iPhone, but having it available online and mobile is huge.

Next, TUAW shows how Apple has once again expanded iTunes Preview — the web browser-based front for the iTunes store — adding full on category pages to the previous app and music rollout. Another piece in the rumored iTunes.com cloud-based puzzle?

Let us know what you think of these changes!

[Thanks Jason for the tip!]

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Following up on last night’s story about the removal of apps with sexual content from the iTunes App Store, TiPb asked Apple for comment and they responded:

“Whenever we receive customer complaints about objectionable content we review them. If we find these apps contain inappropriate material we remove them and request the developer make any necessary changes in order to be distributed by Apple.”

Developer Frasier Spears blogged about the plethora of sexually-based apps a couple weeks ago after exploring the deployment of the iPod touch at his school:

After some research, preference-tweaking and so on, I have one conclusion to share with you. Despite Steve’s insistence that Apple wouldn’t carry porn in the App Store:

The App Store is so full of soft porn apps that I cannot provide access to the App Store and comply with our acceptable use policies.

He went so far as to file radar bugs with Apple over the inability to filter out inappropriate content.

Putting aside the argument over whether or not Apple changed their policy yesterday or merely began more closely enforcing the policies announced in March, 2008, if filters can be created and deployed by iTunes such that users could control whether or not they (or their children, or whomever) could see sexual or violent or any other age-restricted content on the App Store, that might provide an ideal solution for all involved.

That, or Web Apps again become the alternate, unrestricted App Store.

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The fine folks at HAVA have a top-of-the-line, factory sealed, $250 Hava Titanium HD WIFI box, along with a $15 iTunes gift card to purchase HAVA Player for iPhone/iPod touch from the App Store [iTunes link], and they want to give it to a lucky TiPb reader!

All you have to do to enter the give-away is to head on over to the TiPb Forums and tell us what TV show, event, or movie you most want to watch via HAVA on your iPhone! We’ll pick one reader at random and HAVA will send you your box and gift card. (US shipping address required for delivery). Give-away starts now and ends Monday, Feb. 22 at 12pm PT.

For more info on HAVA, keep reading after the break!

Hava Titanium HD WIFI WiFi is the latest addition to our HAVA family. It sports 2 USB ports and allows you to connect the included USB 802.11g wireless dongle giving you the wireless capability of the HAVA Wireless HD but more flexibility. You can connect a USB hard drive to HAVA Titanium’s USB port and record and play back any show using the HAVA PC Player. You can also schedule a recording to occur unattended, so that your PC does not have to be connected when the recording starts.

Like our other HAVA products, you can watch your home TV content in any room in the house or in your hotel room on your PC or mobile phone. The video streaming in the house is through a wireless connection through the home router, and in the hotel room its over the Internet. There is a bundled remote control on the PC screen that allows you to control your set top box, TIVO or any other video source. You can also use HAVA’s recording functionality to record your favorite channels.

• Wireless TV viewing around the house
• External USB hard disk support
• 802.11g
• Pause, rewind, fast forward and record favorite live TV shows
• Burn TV shows to DVD
• Stream TV programs to multiple PCs simultaneously around your home
• Use Microsoft Media Center PCs to watch TV wirelessly throughout your home
• Watch TV on PCs in your home and from abroad at the same time
• Connect any HD video source

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The shinobi-smart folks over at 9to5mac have posted a way for iPhone and iPod touch users to switch away from the retro 4 number pin passcodes that Apple implements, and into a secure alpha-numeric key:

We’ve built a profile from Apple’s corporate developement kit that allows alphanumeric passcodes. All you have to do is open this link (On your iDevice only!) and you will be prompted to pick a new passcode. You will be required to make a passcode with a mix of letters and numbers and you cannot put numbers in a consecutive order. For example you cannot choose “max1234″ you would have to do something such as “max2746.” If you ever want to remove this feature simply go to Settings/General/Profiles/9to5mac/ then click remove and confirm. Then change your code back to something numeric.

You can grab the link from their site (above), and they remind you they’re not responsible for you putting a hyper-secure passcode in place… then forgetting it. If you do give it a try, let us know how it works for you!

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Live from Macworld 2010, Leanna and Rene of TiPb talk to Hilary Wall and Maren Faulkender of Appency about Farm Frenzy 2 [$2.99 - iTunes link] for the iPhone, and the future of games on the iPad.

Watch along after the break!

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Apple patent applications and awards are so voluminous they could fill an entire blog all by themselves — enter Patently Apple, just such a blog, which brings word of several new and interesting iPhone and iPad patents including near field communication, multipoint screen, video conferencing, and multitouch bezels.

Near field communication would allow incredibly simple, incredibly fast data transfer from an iPhone to a MacBook. It also looks like it would allow an iPhone to control a Mac or unlock a door.

Multipoint screen is all about allowing an iPad to detect multiple touches at the same time via a “transparent capacitive sensing medium”.

Video conferencing has been teased for a long — long — time, but now it’s also being looked at in the context of a location aware social network.

The touch sensitive bezel, when added to the previous touch sensitive back casing patent and the current touch sensitive screen would make a fully capacitive iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad! It could also add Palm Pre and Pixi-style gesture areas.

As always, Apple files for and obtains a large amount of patents, and we never know when, if ever, we’ll see them in actual products. That being said, any of these make your want list?

[Thanks to Duvi for the tip!]

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Developer Chillifresh sent us a link to their blog post where they claim Apple is removing “all non-PG apps” (read: sex-based apps) from the App Store.

Here’s the email they received:

The App Store continues to evolve, and as such, we are constantly refining our guidelines. Your application, Wobble iBoobs (Premium Uncensored), contains content that we had originally believed to be suitable for distribution. However, we have recently received numerous complaints from our customers about this type of content, and have changed our guidelines appropriately.

We have decided to remove any overtly sexual content from the App Store, which includes your application.

First, we should point out Wobble has no sexual content in and of itself, it applies a “wobble” graphical distortion effects to any photo you choose to import — though the app name is certainly suggestive.

Second, it’s important to remember that users who’ve already downloaded the app can keep using it in its current state, although the developers can no longer provide updates (including updates to make it compatible with future iPhone OS releases).

Third, Apple’s already gotten negative press for rejecting apps and removing an entire range likely won’t sit well with the “let us decide for ourselves” crowd.

Fourth, sex-based apps have been spreading through several categories and there have been complaints from those who’d rather not see them side-by-side with non-sex-based apps.

So, is there a middle ground where Apple could create an “adult” category all its own, there for those who want the R-rated apps, easy for others to ignore? Or are they right to go the Blockbuster/Walmart family-friendly route, and leave the adult content to join the porn content as Web Apps?

Let us know what you think…

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Apple’s iPhone Developer News feed has announced that the iTunes App Store is now supported in 13 additional countries:

You can now distribute your apps to more customers with the addition of App Store support in Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, and Uganda. Log in to iTunes Connect to view and update the countries where your applications are available.

This contrasts sharply with other platforms where the various marketplaces and catalogs have very limited international presence (i.e. you can’t buy apps in most countries outside the US). The existing iTunes footprint gave Apple and the iPhone and iPod touch a huge global advantage and it’s nice to see they’re continuing to push it.

Now they — and developers (and licensors in some cases) — just need to make more of the apps available internationally!

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