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As the recording industry swoons over Apple's 99 cent download store, the software giant renews its bet on more-advanced subscription services. [CNET News.com] 'Services such as Pressplay, which uses Microsoft technology, have been put on the defensive with news that Apple has sold more than 2 million downloads since April 28, the day its iTunes Music Store launched. But Microsoft is betting that new security enhancements planned for later this year could make renting music, rather than owning it, more attractive to consumers.' Wrong answer. .< 12:40:44 PM  >Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US blamed for Baghdad tension 'Britain believes that heavy-handed tactics by the US military are to blame for America's failure to secure Baghdad, which threatens to delay the reconstruction of Iraq as foreign companies steer clear of the capital. Tony Blair has been told in stark terms that American forces have exacerbated tensions because they have refused to mingle among the local population in the same way as British forces in Iraq's second city of Basra.' Clueless. This isn't a Hollywood movie. .< 12:33:13 PM >U.S. May Let Kurds Keep Arms, Angering Shiites The U.S. will allow Kurdish fighters to keep their heavy weapons, but require Shiite Muslim to surrender theirs, according to a draft directive. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] .< 12:30:30 PM >Last stop before the media monopoly FCC chairman Michael Powell is likely to get media ownership deregulated -- even though public comment is running 97 percent against it. [Salon] .< 2:49:39 AM >Surveys pointing to high civilian death toll in Iraq | csmonitor.com 'Evidence is mounting to suggest that between 5,000 and 10,000 Iraqi civilians may have died during the recent war, according to researchers involved in independent surveys of the country. [...] Such a range would make the Iraq war the deadliest campaign for noncombatants that US forces have fought since Vietnam.' .< 2:13:38 AM >A Woman Swims, a Village Takes Note Not since "Y Tu Mamá También" has a movie so palpably captured the flesh-and-blood reality of high-spirited people living their lives without self-consciousness. [New York Times: Arts] |
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