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Financial Times:
Apple in online film-rental deal with Fox studio — By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles and Kevin Allison in San Francisco — Apple has signed News Corp's 20th Century Fox studio to a new online video-on-demand service in a deal that could change the way people pay for online film content.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Apple To Offer Fox Video Rentals On iTunes — Apple is said to have signed a deal with 20th Century Fox that will see video rentals on iTunes. — According to FT.com the deal will be officially announced at MacWorld on January 14. The same report also says that Apple is in talks …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Fox In Movie Rental Deal With Apple For iTunes; DVDs Will Allow Ripping To PC And iPods — As had been speculated earlier in the month, News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) and its studio Twentieth Century Fox have signed a deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to allow users to rent the latest Fox DVD releases …
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Jordan Golson / Valleywag:
Apple and 20th Century Fox strike digital movie rental deal — The Financial Times reports that Apple and News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox film studio have signed a deal for digital movie rentals. Consumers will be able to rent the latest Fox DVD releases from iTunes for a limited time.
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Chrix Finne / Official Google Reader Blog:
Managing your shared items — We've gotten a lot of helpful feedback about our new sharing feature. We'd hoped that making it easier to share with the people you chat with often would be useful and interesting, but we underestimated the number of users who were using the Share button to send stories to a limited number of people.
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:Google ruining Christmas? Get a grip
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Seeking Alpha:
Details of Apple's Mysterious New Portable Device — I have been working on gathering more information about a new Apple (AAPL) portable device from several different sources during the past 6 months. I have pieced together the puzzle which portrays a picture of what can be perhaps best described …
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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple Shares Cross $200; Let The Rumors Fly — As Apple (AAPL) shares crossed the $200 mark today for the first time ever, the rumor mill is cranking out plenty of grist for CEO Steve Jobs's keynote at the Macworld convention in San Francisco, which runs January 14 through 18.
Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Broadband Mechanics announcement(s) — I hate doing press releases - they seem so old school Web 1.0-ish. Scheduling appointments to go kiss Om Mailk's or Arrington's ring just seems so arcane to me, but it's clearly what has to be done to get coverage. And then they assign the post …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Radiohead: Free New Year's Web Concert, Amazon Beats iTunes To ‘In Rainbows’ — Alterna-rockers Radiohead will stream a free, hour-long concert of their latest album, In Rainbows, on Monday, New Year's Eve, via their Web site, Current TV, and Current.com. “This is a wee celebration …
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Peter Cohen / PC World:
Apple Stock Toys With $200 Per Share Mark — Banner year helps propel Apple's stock, which briefly stock traded north of $200 on Wednesday. — Recommend this story? — Apple's stock traded north of US$200 briefly on Wednesday, although it settled at $198.95 when the Nasdaq market closed at 4:00 PM.
Allan Leinwand / GigaOM:
How to Safeguard Your Privacy Online — As privacy issues continue to monopolize our national conversation, sparked by everything from Google's proposed takeover of DoubleClick to Facebook's Beacon advertising platform to warrantless wiretapping by the NSA and various other activities …
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David Flynn / APC:
Google-powered mobile phones to make a February debut? — First came the fervent and persistent rumours of a Google mobile phone. — Then, just six short weeks ago, the search supremo (and just-about-everything-else-online supremo) announced there would not be a ‘Google phone’ per se …
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Masterful Web Entrepreneurs Hit a Snag in Miami's Condo Market — Jim Clark and Tom Jermoluk cut a swath through Silicon Valley in the 1990s with companies like Silicon Graphics, Netscape and WebMD. But they are finding that it is a lot harder to maneuver through the real estate market than to master the Internet.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Everex gPC gets reviewed, thrashed — Just because something sells out, that doesn't mean that it's up to snuff. Substantiating said claim is the Everex gPC, which recently did an outstanding job of frustrating and disappointing reviewers at PCMag. Put simply, the gPC was found …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Study: Ads in online shows work better than ads on TV — Good news for TV networks: online ads work. As TV shows continue their lengthy migration onto the web, new research finds that the people watching those shows actually pay more attention to both advertising and content when they watch online.
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Justin Berka / Ars Technica:
Hacks and smack-talking make hi-def format war even uglier — The format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD continues, but now the participants are really getting feisty. Both camps have been particularly aggressive this holiday season, offering a variety of discounts, free movies …
Amazon.com:
Amazon.com Wraps Up Its 13th Holiday With Best Season Ever — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the 2007 holiday season finished as its best ever, with its busiest day being December 10. On that day, Amazon customers ordered more than 5.4 million items, which is 62.5 items per second.
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