PBS Adds iTunes U Content
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Apple's iTunes U offerings have expanded this week with new content from the(PBS) network.
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BBC shows are expected to be made available to download later this year as on-demand plans get initial approval.
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BeInSync today announced that Apple iTunes&#8482;  users can easily sync and share their entire music, movies, TV shows or  podcasts collection across multiple computers over the Internet for free  with BeInSync 3.0.
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(InfoWorld) - Contract negotiations between Apple and NBC Universal regarding video content in iTunes are getting nastier and staying public. In a statement, NBC disputes Apple's characterization of the companies' contract renegotiation and says that its TV programs will be available on iTunes through early December. Late last week,Â Apple said that NBC wanted to increase the price for its video contentÂ so much that iTunes would have to sell individual TV shows for $4.99, instead of $1.99, like the rest of the available programs. Because Apple wasn't willing to agree to that price hike, NBC declined to renew its contract, Apple said. So that it wouldn't have to stop selling programs in December -- the middle of the TV season -- when their contract ends, Apple said it wouldn't offer any NBC shows for the upcoming season. But Apple may have a bigger battle on its hands if it does pull those shows from the iTunes video store. In its statement, NBC said that all returning series including new episodes would be available on iTunes through the end of the contract. NBC also said that rather than asking to double the wholesale price of its programs as Apple contends, it wanted to offer end-users more flexible pricing, including bundling packages of shows for a set price. Apple has mostly stuck to a policy of flat pricing despite pressure from content owners to allow for variable pricing. The exception is in the music store where a selection of songs that come without copy protection cost more. Both companies took jabs at each other in their statements. Apple called NBC's suggested pricing change a "dramatic price increase." NBC responded thus: "It is clear that Apple's retail pricing strategy for its iTunes service is designed to drive sales of Apple devices, at the expense of those who create the content that make these devices worth buying." NBC also sells programs on Amazon.com and very soon plans to start offering its shows and others for free on Hulu.com, a joint venture company with News Corp. So far, sales in the iTunes video store are relatively low. During 2007, the store should generate about $300 million, according to estimates from Forrester Research.
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Steve Jobs reveals that iTunes will offer downloadable movies, and provided a sneak peek of a media box that will stream movies, music and TV shows from a nearby computer to the living room TV. Plus:
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Apple&#39;s announcement last week of the iTunes Affiliate Program, iTunes on Campus, and the iTunes Volume Discount program represents the next escalation in what is turning into a heated battle for control of the Internet music services (which is somewhat
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Privately held Swarmcast, which  specializes in streaming video over Web connections, on Tuesday  unveiled a new application to accelerate video downloads from  Apple Inc.'s  popular iTunes store.
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Blog: Apple posts the pair's rare joint appearance on iTunes, where it soars to the top of the podcast charts
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Apple today announced iTunes 7, delivering stunning new features such as the new album and Cover Flow views of music, TV shows and movies. In addition, the iTunes Store is now offering over 75 movies from Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax Films, which customers can purchase and download to watch on their computers and iPods, and soon on their flat screen televisions with Apple&#146;s upcoming iTV player.
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Music videos from the Scissor Sisters,  Snow Patrol, U2 and Keane are among the line-up being included  on British telecoms company BT Group Plc's new broadband  television service via a deal with Universal Music.
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A start-up co-founded by famed  Norwegian hacker "DVD Jon" is on Tuesday introducing a service  that enables users to copy and use copy-protected Apple Inc  iTunes songs on many popular non-Apple devices.
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Auntie's commercial arm hugs Apple The BBC's commercial arm is expected to announce a deal to distribute shows via the iTunes video store next week.â¦
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The new iTunes 7.3.1 addresses a minor problem with iTunes 7.3 accessing the iTunes Library.
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Fox and Apple have joined to provide access to content from the hit television show's current season.
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PBSâs childrenâs show, where animals talk and have humanlike jobs, is  intermittently interesting, and itâs served up with eye-catching computer-generated animation.
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A London security analyst working with the open source group GNUCitizen has discovered a potentially serious exploit that could affect users of the Firefox browser and Apple's QuickTime movie and music player - especially iTunes customers - on Windows XP-based machines. BetaNews tested and verified the severity of the exploit.
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Apple Inc. has updated iTunes to better run on Windows Vista -- although "a few" problems still remain -- and released a security update for QuickTime.