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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
NBC to End iTunes Sales of Its Shows — NBC Universal, unable to come to an agreement with Apple on pricing, has decided not to renew its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on iTunes. — The media conglomerate — which is the No. 1 supplier of digital video to Apple's online store …
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
NBC cancels iTunes contract — Ouch. Another in a long line of disagreements with Apple about the pricing of content on iTunes, another somewhat unexpected blow to the internet's largest digital media etailer. NBC Universal, iTunes's number one seller, apparently backed out of renewing …
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Portable Media: First Zune 2 and Zune Flash Shots — Here are the first shots of the Zune 2 and Zune Flash. The images reveal an 80GB version and a 4 and 8GB flash model. — Not sure what's going on with that interesting controller, but it looks like a real button …
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Donald Bell / Crave: The gadget blog:iPod to Zune: Heads, I win; tails, you lose
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Harrison Hoffman / The Web Services Report:
Yahoo's new social job network: Kickstart — Yahoo is looking to change the game with their new social job network, Kickstart. They are currently conducting research surveys among college students to find out what they think of this new service. Yahoo asks this question to the participants …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
The 2008 iPhone display? Sharp's next gen multi-touch LCD revealed — Want to see the glass behind the iPhone's multi-touch panel? Well this ain't it, it's better. Sharp — one of Apple's iPhone panel providers — just unveiled their newest 3.5-inch, 320 x 480 pixel resolution multi-touch panel …
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Sharp Develops and Will Mass Produce New System LCD with Embedded Optical Sensors to Provide Input Capabilities Including Touch Screen and Scanner Functions — Enables New User Interfaces for Mobile Devices — Sharp Corporation has successfully developed a new System LCD equipped with touch screen and scanner functions.
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft, Eolas settle big patent dispute (Updated) — Microsoft and Eolas Technologies Inc. have settled their high-profile patent dispute over technology in Internet Explorer, according to a letter to Eolas shareholders from Mark Swords, the company's chief operating officer.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Twitter Visualization Tools Coming: First Is Twitter Blocks — The Twitter team must have had a Red Bull machine installed at the offices, because suddenly they're launching new stuff left and right. — They recently added search and Gmail import features to the service.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Security researcher stumbles across embassy e-mail log-ins — Security consultant Dan Egerstad has managed to snag usernames and passwords for over 100 e-mail accounts belonging to embassy employees around the world. According to Computer Sweden, which was able to check that some of the data was accurate …
David Willis / BBC:
'Flying saucer' nears US take-off — It has been called the vehicle of the future and the ultimate way to beat the rush hour commute. — It is the M 200G, otherwise known as a "flying saucer", which is being built by a company in Davis, California called Moller International.
Computerworld:
Microsoft admits Swedish employee promised incentives for Open XML support — But says it's not otherwise tampering with looming ISO vote — Eric Lai and and Elizabeth Montalbano Today's Top Stories or Other Protocols and Standards Stories — Microsoft Corp. admitted Wednesday …
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Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
Family Challenges Verizon Wireless Deal to Sell Bob Marley Ring Tones — It looked like a public relations coup when, on Tuesday, Verizon Wireless announced that it had signed an exclusive deal with the Universal Music Group to sell its customers ring tones from the catalog of Bob Marley, the famed reggae singer who died in 1981.
Ryan Block:
An open letter to friends and colleagues on keyword popovers — Dear every site advertising with keyword popovers, — You know who you are, and many of you are people I consider friends and colleagues in the industry. You're smart, independent businesspeople carving out your niche in the new media landscape.
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Researchers develop a 360-degree holographic display — Researchers at USC have taken another step towards that holiest of sci-fi dreams: the 3D holographic display. Using a spinning mirror covered with a "holographic diffuser," a special DVI implementation, and a high-speed projector …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Gadgets that Talk to Each Other — You could say that widgets (or gadgets, as Google likes to call them) are small applications that bring together a lot of information relevant to you. Now what if these gadgets would communicate with each other by sending small messages?
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Yahoo Messenger patches security flaw, again — Got Yahoo Messenger? Hit refresh. — Yahoo on Thursday issued a patch for a highly critical security flaw, just a week after it issued another Yahoo IM security update. — In this latest case, a security flaw was discovered in the ActiveX control …
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