Sony has announced today that Hulu Plus will now be available to 2010 Bravia HDTV owners with BRAVIA Internet Video Link.

That same luxury will be expanded to Sony Blu-ray player, Blu-ray Home Theater System, Network Media Player and DASH owners in the next couple of months.

Notably, Hulu Plus will also be available to all PlayStation 3 users. Until the announcement, you needed to be a PlayStation Plus subscriber to have access to Hulu Plus.

Furthermore, the service will go out of beta/invite next week, with all PSN members having a chance to sign up.

Hulu Plus costs $10 per month and will give you access to complete back catalogs for current shows such as Glee, Family Guy, Saturday Night Live, Modern Family and others.

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LG Electronics has unveiled plans to release an Android tablet early next year, becoming the next company to try to get in to the quickly growing tablet market.

The company, which is also the world's third largest mobile phone vendor, says the tablet will be 8.9-inches and run on the upcoming Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

In addition to the market leader iPad, Dell, Samsung and Toshiba have already launched tablets and HP, RIM and others have promised devices for next year.

Earlier this year, LG abandoned plans to launch an Android 2.2 tablet claiming the OS was not suitable for tablets.

There was little other details revealed about the upcoming tablet.

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Bianca Wofford of San Diego has sued Apple today claiming the company violated the Consumer Legal Remedies Act while also using false and deceptive advertising.

The suit also claims that Apple used unfair business practices.

Wofford, an iPhone 3GS owner, claims that since she upgraded her device to iOS 4, her smartphone has experienced slow keyboard response times, lag, and fast battery drain.

She is certainly not the only one to have the same experience. iPhone 3G owners, especially, have complained of the same symptoms since updating their devices to iOS 4 in June.

In the suit, Wofford claims that iOS 4 has made her 3GS practically unusable, and Apple has left her no options but to upgrade to the iPhone 4 or jailbreak her device so she can downgrade back to iOS 3. The latter option is legal, but will void her warranty.

Wofford is looking for class action status and asking for $5000 USD for everyone whose phone is now unusable after the update.

Cnet has posted the full suit:
iOS 4 Lawsuit

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Skyfire, the new browser application which promises Flash playback on iOS device has been pulled from the iOS App Store, showing as "sold out" as the company looks to increase its server capacity.

Says one developer with the company: "Please bear with us as we bring our capacity in line with the incredible demand -- stay tuned."

There is no timetable for the browser's return to the App Store.

Skyfire gets around Apple's ban on Flash by taking Flash video, rendering and translating it to HTML5 and then redisplaying it, showing users a thumbnail they can click to play the video. This in turn lead to the capacity problems.

"The user experience was performing well for the first few hours, but as the surge continued, the peak load on our servers and bandwidth caused the video experience to degrade," said the developer (via IW).

Skyfire for iOS sells for $3 in the App Store.

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Jammie Thomas-Rasset must be kicking herself today.

Thomas-Rasset, the American woman who has been fighting the RIAA in court for the last four years over 24 unauthorized songs she downloaded and shared online, has lost again in court, with a jury finding her liable for $1.5 million in copyright infringement damages.

That equals out to $62,500 per song she shared.

The RIAA was ecstatic with the decision (via Cnet): "We are again thankful to the jury for its service in this matter and that they recognized the severity of the defendant's misconduct. Now with three jury decisions behind us along with a clear affirmation of Ms. Thomas-Rasset's willful liability, it is our hope that she finally accepts responsibility for her actions."

In 2007, Thomas-Rasset was found liable for $1.92 million in damages, but a retrial saw the fine dropped to $220,000.

Earlier this year, however, a Federal judge found the fine to be "shocking" and reduced it to just $54,000. The RIAA told Thomas-Rasset that they would accept $25,000, if she would agree to ask the judge to remove the decision from the record. She did not accept the terms of the deal.

Lawyers for the Minnesota woman have vowed another appeal.

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The Toshiba Folio 100 tablet is now available in Europe, however only the Wi-Fi model is currently available with 3G versions hitting in February.

Toshiba's first Android tablet will run 2.2 Froyo and have a large 10-inch with 1024x600 resolution.

Additionally, the tablet has support for Flash 10.1, 16GB of internal memory, a front-side 1.3MP camera, HDMI out and an SD slot for added memory.

The Folio runs on a Nvidia Tegra 250 chip, making it one of the few mobile devices to use Nvidia's powerful line of processors.

Toshiba has placed their own Toshiba Market Place on the tablet, as access to the Android Market is still not supported. The Toshiba Market has 2000 apps available.

The Folio 100 is selling in Europe for £329 now.

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Google has said today that it has converted 80 percent of all YouTube videos into the open-source WebM video format, while at the same time working with manufacturers to add more hardware support for the codec.

WebM is H.264's largest rival in the video format world.

Product Manager John Luther noted that Google has been diligent in developments over the past months, but there is still a long road ahead for WebM.

For now, WebM is not widely supported, but it will be in Firefox 4, Opera 10.5+ and Chrome 6.

You can view the videos via Safari or Internet Explorer using third-party additions.

Google added that the first hardware chips with native WebM support will hit in the Q1 2011.

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