Movie Rentals Are Baked Into the Latest Version of iTunes.  —  Look inside the code of the latest version of iTunes (version 7.5), and you will find eight lines that speak volumes about Apple’s next move in video.  Movie rentals and video-on-demand, it appears, are now baked into iTunes, just waiting to be turned on.

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Review: The Sweet Agony That Is Nokia N81  —  It has been nearly 65 days since I went without a phone set change, leading to snide remarks from my co-workers about my fidelity to Apple’s iPhone.  Despite getting frustrated with iPhone’s email application (I carry a Blackberry to get some serenity) …

Source:   GigaOM
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Video Rentals Coming Soon to iTunes?  —  Before installing any iTunes upgrade, I dump the strings from the old iTunes binary.  Once the new version has installed, I diff the new version’s strings against the old’s, to see what shows up.  —  When I did this for the recent 7.5 upgrade, I found the following […]

Radiohead Deny Reports That 60 Percent Of Fans Paid Nothing For In Rainbows  —  Band sets December 31 for physical release of latest album overseas.  —  The physical version of Radiohead’s In Rainbows won’t be ready for your holiday stocking, but it will be released this year.

Source:   MTV
Author:   Gil Kaufman
Link:   http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1573841/20071108…

Sony CEO sees ’stalemate’ in disc fight  —  NEW YORK - The head of Sony Corp., Howard Stringer, said Thursday that the Blu-ray disc format the company has developed as the successor to the DVD is in a “stalemate” with the competing HD DVD format, chiefly backed by Toshiba Corp. and Microsoft Corp.

Source:   Associated […]

Block Facebook Beacon  —  So here I am, burning some brain cells and taking some time to relax playing a game on Kongregate, when a little window pops up in the corner of my screen and says “Kongregate is sending this to your Facebook profile: Nate played Desktop Tower Defense 1.5 at Kongregate.”

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Radiohead: comScore totally inaccurate  —  A New Music Express piece on Radiohead brings with it a rather large knee to the goolies for comScore, which came out with some numbers on downloads of the band’s “pay what you want” album In Rainbows (I wrote about comScore’s results here).

Source:   mathewingram.com/work
Author:   Mathew
Link:   http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/11/08/radiohead…

Sprint and Clearwire Nix WiMax Agreement [Wireless]  —  Sprint and Clearwire Nix WiMax Agreement  —  Given the shaky state of the WiMax unit of Sprint, the termination of its joint agreement with Clearwire to bring WiMax coverage to 100 million people comes as something of a surprise.

Source:   Gizmodo
Author:   Matt Buchanan
Link:   http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/wireless/sprint-and…

YouTube Releases Multi-file Uploader, Raises File Limits to 1 GB  —  YouTube just announced the availability for Windows users of a desktop uploader (install page here).  Users will now be able to do bulk file uploads.  The company also raised its file size limit from 100 MB to 1 GB.

Source:   Read/WriteWeb
Author:   Marshall Kirkpatrick
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Apple posts firmware v1.1.2 — goodbye jailbreak!  —  Looks like Apple just published firmware v1.1.2 for the iPhone; hit the download link to grab it yourself because iTunes hasn’t yet gotten wise to the fact that it’s out.  Details to follow, but don’t expect jailbreak …

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Ryan Block
Link:   http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/08/apple-posts…