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1:35 PM ET, September 7, 2007

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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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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: The iPhone-Price-Cut Slide Continues; Cumulative Mkt Cap Hit Tops $11 Billion  —  Apple's (AAPL) decision to cut the price of the of the 8 GB iPhone by $200 is proving to be a costly one - at least to the stock's market cap.  —  Apple shares are down again today, extending the slide into a third day.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Apple wants to slash TV show prices in half, aggresively drive iPod sales  —  Last week, Apple and NBC-Universal's relationship ended in a messy split.  The usual he-said, she-said followed: Apple accused NBC of wanting to double prices on some TV shows; NBC said no, they just wanted to have some flexibility in pricing.
Discussion: paidContent.org
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Steve Jobs' $100 iPhone Credit: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Discussion: Bits and Gizmodo
New York Times:
IPhone Owners Crying Foul Over Price Cut
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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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Netscape Digg Clone Is Kaput  —  We've known about it for weeks (despite Netscape's claims that our post was innacurate), but now it's confirmed: AOL has announced the end of Netscape as a social news portal.  —  In a statement, Tom Drapeau spun the decision as being AOL listening …
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Puppet Master  —  I have never before quoted myself at length in a column, but this week's Apple iPhone pricing fiasco calls for it, so here is the beginning of a column I wrote back in January 2002:  —  In 1999, I was commissioned by Vanity Fair magazine to write a story about the relationship between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
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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Brian Steinberg / AdAge:
'The Long Tail Is Just Not That Long'  —  Q&A: Starcom's Emerging Video Guru Tracey Scheppach  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Tracey Scheppach's job is, simply, to help advertisers find new methods to hawk their wares on TV.  But deciding on those methods is far from simple.
Jnack / John Nack on Adobe:
"Photoshop Express" RIA sneak-peeked today  —  Today the crowd at Photoshop World got a quick preview of Photoshop Express, a new application currently in development at Adobe.  First hinted at by Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen some six months ago, Photoshop Express isn't meant to duplicate/replace Photoshop CS3 or Photoshop Elements.
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Know Your Rights: Is it illegal to make my own ringtones?  —  Know Your Rights is Engadget's new technology law series, written by our own totally punk copyright attorney Nilay Patel.  In it we'll try to answer some fundamental tech-law questions to help you stay out of trouble in this brave new world.
Discussion: Digg
Sean Cooper / Engadget:
Simple hackery enables free iTunes ringtones  —  Well, this is a handy (and well-timed) find!  User Cleverboy over at Macrumors has discovered a simple trick to get your own music onto your iPhone using the just-released iTunes 7.4, and it'll cost you precisely nothing.
Gord Hotchkiss / Search Engine Land:
Search In The Year 2010: Part Two  —  Several weeks ago (seemingly years) Just Behave featured Part One of the summarized interviews with my personal dream team of search usability:  — Jakob Nielsen, the Web's best-known usability guru  — Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of user experience and interface design
Discussion: Geeking with Greg
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Multiply, social networking for 30-somethings, raises $16.6M  —  Multiply, a social network aimed at 30-somethings, has just announced additional venture funding of $16.6 million  —  The Boca Raton, Florida-based Multiply struggled after launching in late 2003.
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Matt Richtel / International Herald Tribune:
Social networking sites take notice of seniors
Discussion: Insider Chatter
 
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Holly M. Sanders / New York Post:
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Dell's Linux sleight of hand
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
New Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1 test builds to hit next week?
Discussion: Computerworld
Stefanie Olsen / ZDNet:
Coming to grips with intelligent machines
Ina Fried / ZDNet:
Microsoft opening up on the Web
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee / InformationWeek:
Web Sites Sued Over Patents On Configuring Products
Discussion: WebProNews and Techdirt
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Amex mulls iPhone purchase rebate policy
Ben Kuchera / Opposable Thumbs:
Sony launches backwards compatibility tool for 80GB PlayStation 3 hardware
 Earlier Items: 
Microsoft:
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What's a TV Show Worth?
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Delicious Preview - Next Gen Search For Yahoo?
Discussion: Compiler
Kim Hart / Washington Post:
Shutting Down Big Downloaders
Discussion: dslreports.com and Smart Mobs
BBC:
Government backs Trust on iPlayer
Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
A new Web world with character
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Self-Referential Google Docs Chessboard
Discussion: Download Squad
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Welcome back to TechCrunch UK & Ireland