Google’s YouTube is reportedly in negotiations with movie studios to offer pay-per-view videos by the end of the year — possibly via YouTube streaming.

Google has been promoting the international appeal of a streaming, on-demand movie service pegged to the world’s most popular search engine and YouTube that would work on a global scale, but starting in the United States first.

A pay-per-view deal is expected to bring to YouTube profits, which so far have not been realized. YouTube, which is embedded on many phones, would have an instant pay-per-view smartphone play. Of course, YouTube is widely viewed on desktop computers, as well.

The YouTube pay-per-view effort would be competing with Hulu, Apple’s iTunes, Netflix, Amazon, RedBox and the cable industry. Originally, Hulu set out to differentiate itself quite clearly from YouTube by not showing homemade movies.

Videos may become available on YouTube pay-per-view as soon as they are released on DVD’s.

If available to websites, they would likely be available from The Cardinal and CardinalTheater.com

Cardinal Theater — CardinalTheater.com

Craig puts Microsoft through the fire in this tirade.

From the CBS archives of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

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Apple’s newest iPhone was selling briskly Thursday as thousands lined up outside stores around the world to become among the first to own the device amid concerns of supply shortages.

Poor reception has been reported by owners of the new iPhone 4. Poor or completely absent reception has been reported by users when holding the device without a case.

Apple has claimed that reception issues involve a software problem that incorrectly indicates a bad signal, and that a fix is enroute. Because the iPhone 4 uses a new antenna design integrated into the iPhone body’s edge, some people believe a hardware revision is necessary and/or the bumper cases should be supplied free with the iPhone. Cases, such as the bumpers sold by Apple, may prevent interference caused by a direct hand-to-iPhone contact.

Poor reception problems — even worse than previous versions of the iPhone — have been posted on an Apple support discussion board page on entitled ‘the real reason for bad reception.’

YouTube video showing signal bar indicators changing depending on how the phone is held.

There are suspicions that human skin contact of the antenna that embedded in the body of the phone is interfering with the signal strength reception of the iPhone.

Apple, Inc. released an upgraded version of the Mac Mini Tuesday morning.

The new Mac Mini has improved with a smaller height (1.4 inches), which makes it sleeker, adding an SD card slot, an HDMI port, increasing the hard disk size from 160GB to 320GB, and eliminating the external power adapter. The Mac Mini has a low power consumption of less than 10 Watts when idling. The base model still comes with 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM – 2x1GB.

The small size is a plus for hiding near a living room HDTV with HDMI inputs. The computer can work well viewing photos, downloaded videos from iTunes, or just browsing the Internet while sitting in the living.

The price of base Mac Mini increased from $599 to $699, which has a lot of people complaining, especially since netbooks on the Windows side go for about $300.

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VIDEO: Apple CEO Steve Jobs says the next iPhone will have a higher-resolution screen, longer battery life and thinner design with the iPhone OS now called iOS.

The most precise thing … one of the most beautiful things we’ve ever made.

– Steve Jobs

FEATURES:
Two cameras:
Front-facing camera
Camera with LED flash on the back

Retina display — 326 pixels per inch (ultra-sharp display)
MicroSIM tray

Bing is now a search option alongside Google and Yahoo!
iBooks for iPhonew with notes, bookmarks, PDF support, wireless sync
Updated camera and photo apps
iMovie app
Ability to record video in 720p resolution at 30 frames per second

Martin Williams on World Tech Update (6/3/2010) from IDG/MacWorld this week vendors at Computex in Taipei show off the latest tablets and e-readers, Intel demonstrates Moorestown a new chip designed for tablet PCs, AMD attempts brings its new Fusion chip to the show, but tries to hide it from prying eyes, demonstrators create a noisy start to the show and call Steve Jobs a bloodsucker, MSI shows a laptop computer with keyboard that can flip over to reveal a pen input pad and a skirt made of flash drives makes a fashion statement.

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