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Josef Adalian / Variety:
Apple seeks TV price cut — Download costs could be chopped in half — Apple is mulling a plan to cut the price of TV show downloads in half — an idea that's not going over too well in Hollywood. — According to three people familiar with the proposal, Apple has told networks and studios …
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Steve Jobs Speaks the Truth About the iPhone Price Drop — I hate to say it, but I think Steve Jobs is telling the truth about the iPhone price cut. — We are so used to cryptic and seemingly disingenuous communication out of Apple that we miss it when Mr. Jobs says crassly what most businessmen try …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:Apple: The iPhone-Price-Cut Slide Continues; Cumulative Mkt Cap Hit Tops $11 Billion
Arn / MacRumors iPhone Blog:
Free Custom Ringtones in iTunes 7.4 (Updated) — Cleverboy posted instructions on our forums on how to "convert" AAC music files to ringtones in iTunes 7.4. He states that ringtones and song files are only distinguished by file extension. The file extension for Ringtones is "M4R". — Windows and Mac
BBC:
US backing for two-tier internet — The US Justice Department has said that internet service providers should be allowed to charge for priority traffic. — The agency said it was opposed to "network neutrality", the idea that all data on the net is treated equally.
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Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:
ESPN Founder Hopes To Score With Sports Site — The Founder of ESPN, Bill Rasmussen, launched today CollegeFanz.com, an interactive site focused on college sports and their fans. — The site will be devoted to Division II and III schools and hopes to highlight sports and teams that have been largely under-represented.
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Ads: Apple's iPhone Contextual Ad Was Fake — Remember the iPhone contextual ad yesterday that nudged the early adopters? Turns out the ad wasn't from Apple at all. It was from some guy from didntyouhear.com. — After seeing the Nokia ad—which WAS from Nokia—he decided to make a fake one, which caught Apple's eye.
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Alex Woodson / Hollywood Reporter:
MTV Nets encircle the Web with slate of sites — Set to launch two dozen sites by Q1 — NEW YORK — A new hub for Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" headlines a slate of two dozen targeted Web sites that Viacom's MTV Networks will launch by the first quarter as it continues its "vertical" digital strategy.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Firefox passes 400 million downloads — Firefox just passed the 400 million download mark, according to the Spread Firefox site for promoting the open-source, extendable Web browser. — That number shouldn't be confused with actual installations, Mozilla's public relations folks rightly caution.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google's Search Pages Could Include Richer Ads — When Google launched Universal Search, Marissa Mayer was asked if Google intends to include image or video ads. She didn't rule out this idea and said it's natural to see ads evolving in the same direction as the organic search results.
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Tameka Kee / MediaPost Publications:Google Considers Video for Search Listings
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Apple: iPhone Software Unlock Confirmed on Video — Despite confirmation from reputable sources like CNN and Engadget, there were still people unsure of whether iPhoneSIMFree actually worked. The reason? The lack of video proof of the unlock process. Well, here it is, the first, exclusive video proof of the unlock process.
Tom Drapeau / The Netscape Blog:
Upcoming Netscape changes — › tags: Community, Netscape, Portal, Social News, SocialNews — To the Netscape Community... There are some upcoming changes to the Netscape.com site that we hope will improve your experience. We'll be providing two different news options for you based …
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Jeff Gray / Globe and Mail:
Wireless network making money, Toronto Hydro says — Business model very different from ones that have failed in U.S., president says — City-owned Toronto Hydro says its downtown wireless Internet network, launched last year, is going strong and already making money …
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Reuters:
iTune Tagging Unveiled — The service lets listeners with HD Radio receivers containing a special tag button, to "tag" songs they hear on the FM dial for subsequent purchase via Apple's iTunes. — LOS ANGELES—Apple, iBiquity Digital, a developer of high-definition radio technology …
Kim Hart / Washington Post:
Shutting Down Big Downloaders — Comcast Cuts Internet Service to Bandwidth Hogs — The rapid growth of online videos, music and games has created a new Internet sin: using it too much. — Comcast has punished some transgressors by cutting off their Internet service arguing …
Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
News: Apple locks TV Out in new iPods, breaks video add-ons — Apple locks TV Out in new iPods, breaks video add-ons — Did you buy an add-on display, dock, speaker system, car accessory or cable with video-out for your color 4G or 5G iPod? Were you expecting it to work with the iPod classic or new iPod nano?
Sharon Gaudin / iTNews Australia:
Storm worm botnet more powerful than top supercomputers — The Storm worm botnet has grown so massive and far-reaching that it easily overpowers the world's top supercomputers. — That's the latest word from security researchers who are tracking the burgeoning network of Microsoft Windows machines …
