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7:15 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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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 …
Discussion: CNET News.com
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 …
Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:   An Open Letter to NBC re: Leaving Apple's iTunes Store
Michael Gartenberg:
NBC leaves iTunes - First Take
Discussion: The Register and Chuqui 3.0.1 Beta
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Estimating Financial Impact of iTunes/NBC: Small, For Now …
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
NBC Will Not Renew ITunes Contract
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
NBC Universal ends contract with Apple's iTunes
Don Reisinger / CNET News.com:
NBC says bye to iTunes, hello to piracy and lost revenue
Discussion: Neowin.net
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
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Jon Miller and Ross Levinso's Fund To Be Announced Next Week; Warburg Booted, General Atlantic Is In  —  This story has been on the down-low for a long time, and now because of leaks (including to us and WSJ), a hurried announcement has been made: Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn's …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and PE HUB
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Pat Hedley / PR Newswire:
Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn to Serve as Advisors to General Atlantic's Media and Consumer Sector  —  GREENWICH, Conn., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ — General Atlantic LLC (GA), a leading global growth equity firm, today announced that Jonathan Miller, former Chairman and CEO of America Online …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ross Levinsohn And Jonathan Miller To Announce New Buyout Fund Next Week
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
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 …
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.
Discussion: Mashable! and Digg
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:   Science Fiction Writers of America abuses the DMCA
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
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!
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.
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Print ad sales hit 10-year low  —  After six straight quarters of accelerating declines, newspaper print advertising sales in the first half of this year fell to the lowest level in a decade, according to statistics released today by the Newspaper Association of America.
Python Programming Language:
Python 3000  —  Python 3000 (a.k.a. "Py3k", and released as Python 3.0) is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases.  The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work …
 
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Frank Caron / Opposable Thumbs:
Halo 3, Messenger accessories hitting retail next week
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InfoWorld:
Sweden's OOXML vote declared invalid
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Security Is An Illusion, Chap. 842
Discussion: eWEEK.com
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
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Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
SCRIBD REBRANDS FACEBOOK APP, AIMS AT TEACHERS
Discussion: Mashable!
 Earlier Items: 
Benwilson / iPhone Atlas:
iPhone explodes from unlock attempt (picture)
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Spamhaus off the hook for $11 million judgment
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sony's Rolly, revealed
Colin Barras / BBC:
File-sharers forced to play fair
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Easy Way to Find Recent Web Pages
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
The 2008 iPhone display? Sharp's next gen multi-touch LCD revealed
 

 
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Financial Times:
Sources: New York Sun owner Dovid Efune is close to striking a deal to buy The Telegraph for £550M+, more than what others like National World offered

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Kamala Harris, who has mostly avoided interviews over the past few months, readies a media blitz, including the Call Her Daddy podcast, The View, and 60 Minutes

Matthew Jordan / The Conversation:
As Congress tries to force carmakers to install AM radios as a matter of public interest, it should push licensed stations to abide by public interest standards

 
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