Price Drop  —  Some of you may have already heard, but tomorrow we’re dropping the suggested retail price for Zune to $199.  It’s part of the normal product lifecycle, something we’ve had on the books for months.  We just got some research back and customer satisfaction with the 30GB device is really high …

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Business 2.0 RIP  —  We’re sad to report that employees of Business 2.0 magazine were told today that the monthly publication will close next week, after finishing its October issue.  —  As we wrote in July, executives at Time Inc. were weighing whether to shutter the seven-year old business …

Source:   Bits
Author:   Brad Stone
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NBC says goodbye to Apple, hello to Amazon  —  NBC Universal didn’t waste any time replacing Apple.  —  Episodes of The Office and Heroes will begin appearing at Amazon’s Unbox starting next Monday, according to a statement released by the companies.  —  Amazon customers can download …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Greg Sandoval
Link:   http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9770887-7.html

Introducing MyStrands.TV!  Your free, personalized, Internet music TV  —  We are happy to present MyStrands.TV… a free, personalized, Internet music television, with countless channels featuring great music videos and concert footage just for you.  —  Get ready to spend hours and hours in front of your computer.

Source:   MyStrands Blog
Author:   Aldamiz
Link:   http://blog.mystrands.com/2007/09/04/introducing…

After ditching Apple, NBC opts for flex pricing and more DRM with Amazon  —  With a market cap of$34 billion, Amazon isn’t exactly the smallest company in the world.  But they are certainly smaller than Apple when it comes to power and influence in the downloadable entertainment scene.

Source:   Ars Technica
Author:   Ken Fisher
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Yahoo! Announces Agreement to Acquire BlueLithium  —  Important Next Step in Yahoo!’s Mission to Lead the Transformation of How Advertisers Connect To and Engage With Their Customers  —  SUNNYVALE, Calif. & SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News) …

Source:   Business Wire
Link:   http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070904/20070904006334.html

Palm kills the Foleo dead  —  We are seriously not going to take credit for this, but holy crap, Palm just cancelled the Foleo, just like we asked them to!  Palm CEO Ed Colligan just posted a message to the company’s official blog stating that they’ve decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion …

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A Message to Palm Customers, Partners and Developers  —  As many of you are aware, we are in the process of building our next generation software platform.  We are very excited about how this is coming together.  It has a modern flexible UI, instant performance, and an incredibly simple and elegant development environment.

Source:   The […]

Evidence of GDrive in Google Apps  —  Rumors of an online storage solution from Google have been circulating for years.  These rumors became stronger in July last year when references to Platypus and GDrive were accidentally made available on the writely.com domain.

Source:   Google Blogoscoped
Author:   Tony Ruscoe
Link:   http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-04-n51.html

iPhone Becomes Leading U.S. Smart Phone Model in July  —  Apple Inc.’s iPhone outsold all smart phones in the United States during July, and equaled the sales of the most popular feature phone, according to iSuppli Corp. The iPhone accounted for 1.8 percent of all mobile-handset unit sales to U.S. consumers during July.

Source:   iSuppli
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