Barely a month after taking most of its videos off of iTunes and going home, NBC is ready to play again. In a story about NBC CEO Jeff Zucker, the Financial Times reports:

Mr Zucker appears to have patched up relations with Apple after a pricing dispute last year led NBC to pull its shows from the iTunes digital media store. “We’ve said all along that we admire Apple, that we want to be in business with Apple,” he said. “We’re great fans of Steve Jobs.”

The shows that were removed are not back on yet, but i will keep a look out. But it looks more and more like NBC’s walkout may have just been a negotiating tactic. Almost a baby throwing its toys out of the pram to get what it wants!

Source: TechCrunch

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We have all heard the gossip surrounding Steve Jobs’ Keynote speach at MacWorld tomorrow. But I have just notices that the tagline that everyone was talking about, “Somethings in the air” is now plastered all over the Apple.com homepage.

Most people are linking it to a MacBook Pro Air. As there is another photo with “Now wires included” which could mean some sort of wireless powered laptop? Doubt it’s possible but we will find out tomorrow!

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This is my first post written using my iPhone! I am in the UK and finally got my hands on one on the 9th of november. It seems to be doing alright. As we have all heard the keyboard is tricky to get used to but I am getting there already! Practice makes perfect. It is much easier to type like this in landscape view. Anyway I may well be using this method of blogging when it is inappeopriate to be using a laptop. Also its an excuse to play around in the amazing safari browser. It is alot better then I thought it would be. All my websites look great. One app I recommend is iflickr. You can get your photos immediately uploaded to flickr without touching anything! Anyway long may the novelty continue!

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Evan DiBiase has had a look at the code inside the new iTunes 7.5 release. Inside were 8 interesting lines of code that have given us a clue as to what is coming next from itunes. Movie rentals and video-on-demand, it appears, are now integrated into iTunes, just waiting to be turned on.These are the 8 lines he found:

rental-content

rental-bag

rbsync

source-rental-info

dest-rental-info

getvodaccountselectionlist

GET VOD ACCOUNT SELECTION LIST

supportsRentals

Apple has not announced anything on the movie rental or video-on-demand (VOD) front, but these lines suggest that these options may be turned on soon. It is not clear what the difference between a rental and a digital VOD would be. Perhaps the VOD option will be for Apple TV?

To me VOD and rentals are the bit that has been missing and this will make it a more rounded product to compete with NetFlix and those sort of companies. . Sounds like Apple is finally coming around to the realization that movies are for renting. Too bad Amazon and Netflix are already way ahead of Apple on the digital movie rental front.

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Well TechJuicer has been running this competition for a few month’s and we finally have a winner!

Drum Roll please……………..

Jill Rampling who sent an sms in on the 4th of November! I sent her an e-mail and asked for a quote:

I’m thrilled that I won! I am going to load up as much music as i can! Thank you soooooo much to TechJuicer. Maybe another competition soon?

After talking with her she has decided to have the Red Nano. The one that gives some money to charity.

Until the next competition, thank you so much to everyone who entered. I hope you return and keep up with everything on TechJuicer! Don’t forget tot subscribe to the TechJuicer RSS Feed!

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Yes this post is now being shown from 6:02pm and the iPhone is in the UK atlast! I got some inside information stating that the O2 stores are shutting at 2pm and then opening at 6:02pm. Why that odd time? Well the time between 2 and 6:02 will be for training for the employees. Do you expect them to be able to talk about every aspect of the iPhone from a few hours training? Are they doing this in every single store in the UK? Well probably not at my local O2 store is in Dorchester, Dorset which is the middle of the country.

Anyway by the time this message goes live at 6:02 I will possibly be in the store collecting my iPhone that I have reserved by talking to E.G from O2. Cheers!

Anyway I will update you soon on my phone. Orange want me to pay £290 to get out of my contract! NO WAY! So I will have some decisions to make when “activating” my iPhone!

I am going to try to make a small video of me and my iphone. If anyone would be interested! It will appear here as soon as possible.

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