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4:45 PM ET, September 25, 2007

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Amazon.com:
Amazon.com Launches Public Beta of Amazon MP3, a Digital Music Store Offering Customers Earth's Biggest Selection of a la Carte DRM-Free MP3 Music Downloads  —  Amazon MP3 Offers Over 2 Million Songs From More Than 180,000  —  Artists and Over 20,000 Labels, Including EMI Music and Universal
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Amazon launches DRM-free "Amazon MP3" music downloads  —  If you're into DRM-free music, you have a reason to get pretty excited today.  As speculated, Amazon has launched the public beta of its new digital music portal called Amazon MP3, which will feature two million songs from 180,000 artists …
Amazon.com:
Amazon MP3 Open for Public Beta  —  We're extremely happy to announce we've launched a public beta of Amazon MP3, our new digital music service.  You're officially welcome to shop Earth's biggest selection of a la carte DRM-free MP3 digital music downloads.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Amazon MP3 vs. Apple iTunes: Where Should You Shop?  —  Amazon (AMZN) has just announced that the beta version of its MP3 download store is live.  The company claims it has 2 million DRM free songs, each priced from 89 cents to 99 cents.  More than 1 million of the 2 million songs are priced at 89 cents.
Bruce Houghton / hypebot:
Analysis: What The Amazon Store Is... And Is Not.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:   Amazon's MP3 store brings more DRM-free music at lower prices than iTunes Store
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Amazon MP3 Beta Launches
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Amazon Launches a Music Store, Not a Service
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
"iPhone Dev Team" issues statement  —  A spokesman for the iPhone Dev Team, the group that developed the iPhone unlock has issued a statement condemning Apple and promising a tool in the next week which will restore your iPhone to a factory-fresh state.  The unlock, he writes …
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Don Reisinger / The Digital Home:
Is Apple in danger of losing its following?  —  When the iPhone first hit store shelves, Apple was on top of the world.  Not only did the company enjoy the biggest product release of the year, its stock price was on the rise, Mac sales were soaring and for the first time …
InfoWorld:
iPhone hacks void warranty, Apple says
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
15 Billion More Reasons to Worry About Facebook  —  Oh, my.  —  Oh, my.  —  Dig a hole and hide.  The end is nigh.  And how do you spell Ponzi (as in scheme) again?  —  When I reported in this column two weeks ago that Facebook was looking to raise a new round of funding …
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Dennis K. Berman / Wall Street Journal:
For Facebook, GeoCities Offers a Cautionary Tale  —  Can Rise and Fall of Once-Hot Site  —  Sway Decisions on Funding, IPO?  —  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was 10 years old when David Bohnett, then a 37-year-old mainframe programmer, hatched an idea: Set up a Web-based "community" …
Barryg / windowsultimate.com:
Windows DreamScene released!  —  In early July, I wrote about The Ultimate Team's intention to ship the remaining promised Ultimate Extras (DreamScene and the remaining Language Packs) by the end of the summer.  Unfortunately summer never really came to Seattle this year—so we missed our cue.
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core:
Office 2008 for Mac details revealed at Apple Expo  —  More details about the upcoming Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac product line-up were released at Apple Expo which opens today in Paris.  Microsoft will offer three Office 2008 SKUs and a new technology guarantee program.  —  1. Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
Shimon Sandler / SEO Consultant:
Google Building Blocks Toolkit  —  I just received this Toolkit in the mail from Google:  —  Are they trying to bribe advertisers?  Is this the equivilant of a paid link?  —  Regardless, it's always nice to receive goodies in the mail, especially from Google.  —  Thanks Google.  I appreciate it.
Sam Sethi / blognation UK:
Facebook IM Client Coming Soon  —  I have just been given a sneek preview of a new Facebook IM client that is going into beta this Friday.  What I like about this Facebook app is there is nothing to download or install, no registration and best of all, all of your friends in Facebook can use it instantly.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Parakey: Did Investors Get Left Out In The Cold?  —  When Facebook acquired Parakey in July, everyone assumed the stockholders of that fledgling startup would be popping the champagne bottles.  No matter what the acquisition price (it wasn't disclosed), if the sellers got Facebook stock …
Nancy Gohring / InfoWorld:
GPL lawsuit may be settled out of court  —  (InfoWorld) - Monsoon Multimedia and the Software Freedom Law Center are discussing a settlement regarding Monsoon's open-source licensing violation, but a deal isn't certain.  —  "Simply coming into compliance now is not sufficient to settle …
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
M'SOFT LOOKS TO FACEBOOK IF YAHOO! WON'T PLAY  —  Microsoft Corp. needs to do a deal - the question the software giant is currently contemplating is whether it should do one with Facebook or Yahoo!, The Post has learned.  —  According to two sources familiar with the discussions …
Computerworld:
Canadian probe finds TJX breach followed wireless hack  —  Privacy commissioners blame company for keeping too much customer data  —  Jaikumar Vijayan Today's Top Stories or Other Security Stories  —  After months of speculation about how exactly the intrusion at TJX Companies Inc. happened, officials now know what happened.
Sony:
SONY DELIVERS FASHION-FORWARD NOTEBOOKS BEGINNING AT A VERY ATTRACTIVE PRICE  —  Sony Electronics today unveiled a line of fashionable, entry- level PCs — the VAIO® NR series starting at about $750 — which is the lowest-priced notebook the company has ever introduced.
 
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