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3:15 PM ET, September 8, 2007

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Michael Rose / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iTunes 7.4 obsolete after 48 hours; 7.4.1 breaks homebrew ringtones  —  There are apps that age gracefully, staying functional and relevant for months or years with no changes at all (I'm looking at you, TNEF's Enough — 2005 in the house!)...  and then there's iTunes.
Conrad Quilty-Harper / Engadget:
iTunes Store slip-up reveals future rental movie options?  —  Movie rentals could be coming to the iTunes Store, if an apparent slip-up by Apple is any indication.  Mac developer David Watanabe uploaded a screenshot depicting an iTunes problem reporting system which has options for requesting …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Microsoft bringing Internet TV feature to Windows Media Center  —  During our chat with Microsoft today, we got wind of a brand new feature coming to Windows Media Center, and it's slated to hit just as D-Link and Linksys get official with their Media Center Extenders.
BBC:
Mobile phone technology turns 20  —  The technology behind the mobile phone is celebrating its 20th anniversary.  —  On 7 September 1987, 15 phone firms signed an agreement to build mobile networks based on the Global System for Mobile (GSM) Communications.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
UPDATED: RIM's (RIMM) BlackBerry System Dies, Millions Without Email  —  Research In Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry mobile email system is down nationwide, according to our Sprint rep and confirmed by Boy Genius Report, which says the outage started around 10 a.m. for some T-Mobile and AT&T subscribers.
Discussion: Inquirer, CNET News.com and Mashable!
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Joshua Karp / The Boy Genius Report:
Widespread BlackBerry outage?  —  And we thought these things were a thing of the past....it seems that BlackBerry users on all networks are experiencing a complete data outage.  First reported around 10:00 AM this morning EDT, the outage is apparently blocking all email and web access to 'Berrys on all mobile networks.
Elena Malykhina / InformationWeek:
Report Critical Of Telecom's Online Customer Service  —  The nation's telecom providers are failing to provide customers with a full range of online customer service capabilities, according to an industry survey.  —  The majority of telecom carriers in the United States are failing …
Markus Spath / The blognation:
Search Within Radio And TV Channels With Spactor  —  Wouldn't it be fantastic to know when, how often and where a term was mentioned in radio or TV?  Bremen based spactor is a brand new media search engine which tells you just that.  Currently they are searching within 75 German TV and radio stations.
Ben Long / iPhone Central:
iPhone Hacking Kit, the next generation  —  In mid-August, I posted a detailed guide to hacking your iPhone here at iPhone Central.  In those free-wheeling bygone days of iPhone hacking you customized and manipulated your phone using a combination of a simple "jailbreak" application and a lot of command-line work in the Mac terminal.
Discussion: Mobility Site
Elaine Warner / Compete Blog:
iPhone Interest Could More Than Double With New Price Cuts  —  By now you've probably heard about Apple's recent product announcements.  And while the redesign of the iPod Nano may be getting a lot of hype, the iPhone's $200 price cut was the talk of the day here at Compete.
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?
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Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
HTC proud to share touch vision with Apple
Ryan Block / Engadget:
iPhoneSIMfree shows us demo of iPhone unlock app, back end — now due Monday  —  So the iPhoneSIMfree guys have some news today.  First up, they called to let us know they did in fact delay the launch of their iPhone SIM unlock software (which was clear by the fact that no one has it yet) — but it's now due Monday.
Discussion: I4U News, Techomical, Gizmodo and Digg
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.
Discussion: Epicenter and Mashable!
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Tameka Kee / MediaPost Publications:
Google Considers Video for Search Listings
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
The Industry Standard is Coming Back, Maybe  —  As Business 2.0 closes, another of the old names is being dusted off and will possibly make a comeback: The Industry Standard, at TheStandard.com.  The now-placeholder site was discovered by chance by Eric Savitz at Barron's …
Spread Firefox:
Four Hundred Million Firefox Downloads  —  On November 9th, 2004, you all started a movement.  Spread Firefox, supported by tens of thousands of contributors, took just 99 days to deliver 25 million downloads of Firefox to a world of people desperate for a better Web …
 
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Sony Ericsson to launch games phone in Feb?
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