Apple just slapped NBC down hard. Responding to reports NBC was pulling out of the iTunes Store, Apple announced that it was prematurely canceling their partnership — Because NBC wanted $5 per episode of its shows!
Apple® today announced that it will not be selling NBC television shows for the upcoming television season on its online [...]

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Regarding the ongoing internet fun-poking at Miss Teen South Carolina and her love of maps, Jason Schultz says,
In response to the recent call to action by Miss Teen South Carolina, Maps For
Us started a blog of important maps: Link. My favorite is the map of Sparta: Link.

In BoingBoing’s comment section, reader Tim Howland shared this [...]

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Many BoingBoing readers sent in copies of this lovely Tube Map, composed for Miss South Carolina after her most inspirational speech at a recent beauty pageant about the people of Iraq and Such As. Link to full-size at Morning Toast blog, and better grab a hanky before you watch that video Mark posted earlier. (thanks, [...]

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I’m writing this from Boulder, Colorado, which seems like a good place
to make this announcement — it was in this town that Carla Sinclair
and I launched bOING bOING as a print zine in 1988. During the past 19
years we’ve gone through many changes — from zine to webzine to
directory to blog. Today, Boing Boing is [...]

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Filed under: Portable Audio

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/CONFIRMED_Apple_invites_press_for_event_on_September_5th’; Well the rumors have been floating around for a few days, and now we’ve gotten official word — in the form of the invite you see above — that Apple will be holding a “special event” on September 5th. Let the speculation begin!
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(Via Engadget.)

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Filed under: iLife, Software, Blogs
Many folks who were used to the array of features iMovie ‘06 offered were understandably upset when iMovie ‘08 uprooted just about everything they knew. After all, they had the figurative rug pulled out right from under them. Eric at no one sequel, however, doesn’t see this as a bad thing. [...]

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The New York Times reports Alberto Gonzales will announce his resignation later this morning:
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned. A senior administration official said he would announce the decision later this morning in Washington.
Mr. Gonzales, who had rebuffed calls for [...]

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According to reports, Gateway will be exercising its right of first refusal (or ROFR) to acquire control of Packard Bell BV by nabbing all of the shares of the PC-maker’s parent company. The computer giant first gained the ROFR in Summer of 2006, in an agreement made with the former owner of eMachines, Lap Shun [...]

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Filed under: Portable Audio
It looks like the long, litigious saga of AllofMP3 is about to take yet another turn, with the company is now promising to resume its music download service following a recent Russian court ruling in its favor. While it apparently isn’t quite ready to get all that specific, the company has posted [...]

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