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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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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.
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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.
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.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:iPhoneSIMfree shows us demo of iPhone unlock app, back end — now due Monday
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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
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?
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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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Why Is The Justice Department Commenting On Net Neutrality? — from the not-really-their-area-of-interest dept — There's been a fair amount of chatter over the Justice Department's decision to comment to the FCC about network neutrality, but there's been almost no discussion …
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BBC:US backing for two-tier internet
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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:
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.
Business Wire:
ESPN Founder Launches CollegeFanz.com — Web 2.0 Site Provides the Ultimate Interactive Experience for College Sports Fans — WAYNE, Pa.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Twenty-eight years to the day after launching ESPN, the Founder of ESPN, Bill Rasmussen, today launched CollegeFanz.com, a compelling interactive online experience.
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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 …
Ken / Digital Common Sense:
Quechup - Rat Bastard Disease of the Internet — Ok, I wrote this the other day about these bastards. See Social Networking VD — I immediately unsubscribed and sent them a screed demanding they not spam my address bok that they harvested. This is an elegant use of social networking …
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