Google News Now Hosting Wire Stories & Promises Better Variety In Results — Today, Google News will begin offering articles from several major wire services and news agencies hosted on its own site, rather than sending readers away from Google. The move is part of licensing agreements that have been stuck over […]

iTunes Store To Stop Selling NBC Television Shows — Apple® today announced that it will not be selling NBC television shows for the upcoming television season on its online iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). The move follows NBC’s decision to not renew its agreement with iTunes …
Source: Apple
Author: Tom Neumayr
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APPLE, LABELS PITCH ‘TONES — Steve Jobs is getting into the ringtones business, The Post has learned. — Apple is in the midst of developing an offering with the major music labels to sell ringers to iPhone users via iTunes, multiple sources familiar with the situation said.
Source: New York […]

File-sharers forced to play fair — Researchers have found a way to enforce good manners on file-sharing networks by treating bandwidth as a currency. — The team has created a peer-to-peer system called Tribler in which selfless sharers earn faster upload and download speeds but leeches are penalised.
Source: BBC
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NBC says bye to iTunes, hello to piracy and lost revenue — In news that comes just weeks after iTunes’ loss of Universal Music Group, NBC has officially canceled its contract with iTunes, citing the need for stricter piracy controls and higher pricing that Apple was unwilling to provide.
Source: CNET News.com
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Watchdog presses ISPs to clamp down on illegal net use — The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft is pressing ahead with its proposal to have internet service providers send warning notices to customers who have been identified as illegal downloaders, and disconnect the services of repeat offenders.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
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NBC to pull shows from iTunes — The No. 1 supplier of digital video to the online store, decides not to renew contract to sell downloads of its shows over pricing, piracy concerns, according to report — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — NBC Universal has decided not to renew its contract …
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Easy Way to Find Recent Web Pages  —  Now that Google indexes pages extremely fast and saves the date of the first indexing, it would be nice to have more options for restricting search results to a date range.  Google only provided three options in the advanced search …

Source:   Google Operating System
Author:   Ionut […]

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 …

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Thomas Ricker
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‘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.

Source:   BBC
Author:   David Willis
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