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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / CNN:
NBC pulls its TV shows from Apple iTunes — No more ad-free episodes of The Office, 30 Rock, Scrubs or Friday Night Lights for $1.99 each. — As promised, NBC (GE) removed all its content and that of its affiliates from the iTunes Store over the weekend after its contract with Apple (AAPL) expired.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
News Corp Hugging Apple: 20th Cent. Fox Films To iTunes — News Corp.'s (NWS) 20th Century Fox studio is talking with Apple (AAPL) about selling its movies through iTunes, reports Pali Capital's Rich Greenfield (reg. required), who predicts a deal will be done early next year (perhaps in time for Macworld in January?).
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
News Corp/Fox Close To Deal With Apple For iTunes Movies: Report — News Corp and its studio Twentieth Century Fox are close to a deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to begin offering new releases and catalog movie titles through iTunes beginning in early 2008, reports Pali analyst Richard Greenfield, in a blog post (reg. req.)
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Two More Facebook Advertisers Say No To Beacon — Now, it's not just Coca-Cola who is holding off on using Facebook's Beacon. Travelocity and Overstock have also reportedly decided to sit on the sidelines (MediaPost via paidcontent). — Meanwhile, after applauding Facebook …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
More Facebook Advertisers Bail From Beacon. Plus, New Concerns. — The backlash against Facebook's Beacon advertising program just gets worse every day. First, advertising partner Coca-Cola got cold feet over privacy issues. Now Overstock is bailing from the program, and Travelocity is having doubts.
Chris Williams / The Register:
Microsoft's sex-obsessed RoboSanta spouts filth at children — The Register Desktop Support Seminar . Live & Online 11th December (10am PST) — Disturbing news has reached our Yuletide youthful innocence bunker that Microsoft's new artificial intelligence-powered Santa bot is subjecting …
Oliver Starr / blognation USA:
Marc Orchant Suffers Massive Coronary — THIS IS NOT AN ATTEMPT AT HUMOR — PLEASE REPOST — At some time between 7:30 and 8:10 AM on Sunday Morning December 2nd, 2007, Marc Orchant, my fellow author on this blog, as well as one of my closest friends sustained a massive heart attack while working in his home office.
Mark Sullivan / PC World:
The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America — These groups line up against tech interests in courtrooms and corridors of power across the country. — Their names keep coming up over and over again in courtrooms and corridors of power across the country—those groups whose interests always seem …
Ginger Tulley / Six Apart News:
Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal — Acquisition of LiveJournal, creation of new operating company and investment fund by SUP promise new innovation and expansion for pioneering online community — San Francisco, CA - December 3, 2007 - Six Apart, the world's leading independent …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
The Crunchies Awards - Nominations Open — Nominations are now open for the first annual Crunchies, the competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. The Crunchies is a collaboration project between GigaOm …
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Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
Images and new categories launch tonight — Hey everyone. Believe it or not, the dedicated images section you've been waiting for finally goes live later tonight. Lots of changes in this release: — New Universal Taxonomy — Now you can submit news, images, or videos to any category on Digg!
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Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Mozilla scoffs at vulnerability study rating IE superior to Firefox — Jeffrey Jones, a researcher and the Security Strategy Director at Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group, recently posted a report (PDF format) that was featured in the CSO online magazine.
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AppleInsider:
Apple, AT&T sued over iPhone's Visual Voicemail feature — Apple and AT&T on Monday were hit with a hefty patent infringement lawsuit from Klausner Technologies, which charges the pair with treading on patented technology by offering Visual Voicemail service to iPhone customers.
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
At Wikipedia, Illustrators May Be Paid — The foundation that runs Wikipedia has finally agreed to pay contributors to the online encyclopedia a modest fee for their work. But it won't pay the thousands of people who participate in creating the wiki pages — just artists who create "key illustrations" for the site.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Oops! Yahoo dumps Britney — You've got to give Yahoo credit for trying drag the collective mentality out of the celebrity gossip gutter. — Every year, the company releases a top 10 list for Web searches. Last year, Britney Spears was the No. 1 most popular search term.
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Christopher S. Rugaber / Associated Press:
Justices Turn Down Online Piracy Case — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider an appeal by an online publisher that claims credit-card companies are enabling the piracy of its pictures of nude models. — The case was brought by Perfect 10 Inc. …
Daisy Whitney / TVWeek.com:
Online Fame Easy; Ads Harder to Get — Income for Web Video Creators Varies From 'Retire' to 'Keep Your Day Job' — Some Web video stars, like the "Ask a Ninja" guys, are raking it in. Some, like Beet.TV video blogger Andy Plesser, are earning a hefty supplement to their day jobs.
