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Ars Technica
“Apple declined to pay more than double the wholesale price for each NBC TV episode, which would have resulted in the retail price to consumers increasing to $4.99 per episode from the current $1.99,” wrote the company in a statement. “We hope they will change their minds and offer their TV shows to the [...]

New York Times
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, accounting for about 40 percent of downloads — notified [...]

BBC NEWS
Exactly 25 years ago the world’s first compact disc was produced at a Philips factory in Germany, sparking a global music revolution.

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Apple News
Apple® today announced the debut of the John Lennon solo catalog on the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). Sixteen of Lennon’s solo works from EMI Music are available for the first time on iTunes starting today, with the “Lennon Legend” and “Acoustic” collections making their worldwide digital debuts. For a limited period of 30 days, exclusive [...]

New York Times
Universal, the world’s biggest music conglomerate, said it would offer albums and songs without the software, known as digital rights management, through existing digital music retail services like RealNetworks and Wal-Mart, nascent services from Amazon.com and Google, and some artists’ Web sites.
But the music will not be offered D.R.M.-free through Apple’s iTunes, the [...]

1. .mac overhaul. (push email?)
2. iWork with a spreadsheet module.
3. iLife ‘08
4. Movie rentals in iTunes.
Update: Well 3 out 4 is not bad.

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Today @ PC World
Today the band AC/DC says it’s bypassing Apple’s iTunes and has brokered an exclusive deal with Verizon to sell its music through Verizon’s online music store.

I hope AC/DC is getting a big cut from Verizon because there is no way are going to move as many copies as they would through [...]