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5:30 PM ET, August 31, 2007

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Tom Neumayr / Apple:
iTunes Store To Stop Selling NBC Television Shows  —  Apple® today announced that it will not be selling NBC television shows for the upcoming television season on its online iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com).  The move follows NBC's decision to not renew its agreement with iTunes …
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
NBC Will Not Renew ITunes Contract  —  NBC Universal, unable to come to an agreement with Apple on pricing, has decided not to renew its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on iTunes.  —  The media conglomerate — which is the No. 1 supplier of digital video to Apple's online store …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Apple slaps back at NBC in iTunes spat  —  Disagreements between Apple and NBC Universal escalated Friday as Apple announced that it won't sell NBC's shows for the upcoming television season.  —  The move comes a day after The New York Times reported that NBC Universal would not renew …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Apple Retaliates; Says NBC Wanted Double The Wholesale Price; Will Stop in September  —  Apple (Nsdq: AAPL) has come out swinging after reports last night that NBC has told the company it won't renew the TV downloads contract beyond December: Apple said in a release that …
Brian Garrity / New York Post:
APPLE, LABELS PITCH 'TONES  —  Steve Jobs is getting into the ringtones business, The Post has learned.  —  Apple is in the midst of developing an offering with the major music labels to sell ringers to iPhone users via iTunes, multiple sources familiar with the situation said.
Don Reisinger / CNET News.com:
NBC says bye to iTunes, hello to piracy and lost revenue
Discussion: Lost Remote and Neowin.net
Michael Gartenberg:
NBC leaves iTunes - First Take
Discussion: The Register and Chuqui 3.0.1 Beta
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google News Now Hosting Wire Stories & Promises Better Variety In Results  —  Today, Google News will begin offering articles from several major wire services and news agencies hosted on its own site, rather than sending readers away from Google.  The move is part of licensing agreements that have been stuck over the past year.
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Josh Cohen / Google News Blog:
Original stories, from the source  —  Today we're launching a new feature on Google News that will help you quickly and easily find original stories from news publishers — including stories from some of the top news agencies in the world, such as the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse …
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google Begins Hosting News on Its Site
Discussion: E-Media Tidbits
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Cuts Deal With AP: Blow To Other News Sites
Discussion: WebProNews
Economist:
Who's afraid of Google?  —  The world's internet superpower faces testing times  —  RARELY if ever has a company risen so fast in so many ways as Google, the world's most popular search engine.  This is true by just about any measure: the growth in its market value and revenues …
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Economist:
Inside the Googleplex  —  It is rare for a company to dominate its industry while claiming not to be motivated by money.  Google does.  But it has yet to face a crisis  —  IN AMERICA a phenomenon might claim to have entered mainstream culture only after it has been satirised on "The Simpsons".
Discussion: Epicenter, VoIP Blog and Clickety Clack
Brian Garrity / New York Post:
LET'S DANCE BABY  —  UNDERDOG AMAZON SET TO CHALLENGE ITUNES  —  Apple boss Steve Jobs is about to have another new challenger for dominance in the digital music business: Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos.  —  The online retail giant has tentatively set a mid-September target for the launch …
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Security Is An Illusion, Chap.  842  —  As we enter this Memorial Day weekend, let's take a moment to remember the latest casualties in the privacy wars (and hope you're not on the list):  —  * The data breach at Monster.com continues to look nastier and nastier.
Discussion: eWEEK.com
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Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
Theft at Monster alarms experts
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Worse than Vogon poetry: bogus DMCA takedowns stun sci-fi lovers  —  Viacom isn't the only organization involved in sending out "bass-ackwards" DMCA takedown notices; the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (abbreviated, for complicated reasons, as the SFWA) is in on the fun as well.
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:   Science Fiction Writers of America abuses the DMCA
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Microsoft cooking up some BlackBerry pie?  —  Amid strong rumors of an impending buyout by Microsoft, stock in Research In Motion (RIM), the company that produces the BlackBerry line of push e-mail devices, has surged up to an all-time high of $85.  According to a story from Reuters …
Discussion: InfoWorld and Mashable!
Benwilson / iPhone Atlas:
iPhone explodes from unlock attempt (picture)  —  Earlier today we noted that while successful hardware-based iPhone unlocks are taking place all over the world (Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Germany, etc), some users are apparently doing damage to their units that will almost certainly not be covered under Apple's warranty.
Rose Yao / Official Google Blog:
Google Desktop for the Mac in 9 more languages  —  In April we launched Google Desktop for the Mac to further our goal of delivering great products on the Mac and making them universally available on all platforms.  A big thanks to all of you for using Desktop for the Mac, and for sharing your feedback.
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Wikirage: The Wikipedia Zeitgeist  —  At the beginning of this month, Andrew Pipes wrote about Yahoo! Buzz and Google Trends, two search engine zeitgeist tools that attempt to show what topics are popular based on search volume.  The idea is that when you look at search data over time you begin …
Discussion: Webware.com
 
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Danny Dumas / Gadget Lab:
Review: Nokia N95 (North American Version) — Guess Who's Back in Black
Discussion: Gizmodo
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Print ad sales hit 10-year low
Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
Netvibes goes mobile, for real this time
San Francisco Chronicle:
Google a victim of EarthLink woes with cancellation of S.F. Wi-Fi
Discussion: Bits, Salon: Machinist and Ego Food
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
SCRIBD REBRANDS FACEBOOK APP, AIMS AT TEACHERS
Discussion: Mashable!
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Spamhaus off the hook for $11 million judgment
Discussion: CNET News.com
Peter Sayer / PC World:
French YouTube Rival Lands $34 Million Funding
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sony's Rolly, revealed
 Earlier Items: 
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Microsoft Open XML standards vote foments politics, dismay
Discussion: InfoWorld, BetaNews and WinBeta
Russ / Russell Beattie's Weblog:
My advice then is the same as now: Buy Opera
Discussion: Geek.com
ClickZ:
Ad Network Tries Targeting on Page View Duration
Discussion: MarketingVOX
Tnevinsmsft / Software Licensing …:
Server is on track for RTM tomorrow
Discussion: Bink.nu
Colin Barras / BBC:
File-sharers forced to play fair
Discussion: CrunchGear and Mashable!
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
The 2008 iPhone display? Sharp's next gen multi-touch LCD revealed
 

 
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Patrick Frater / Variety:
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