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Three months after a messy breakup with Apple's iTunes Store, NBC Universal said Tuesday it will make its catalog of TV shows available through a download service made by rival portable device maker SanDisk. The shows the studio will offer through Fanfare, SanDisk's Web-based download service, include those from its main network along with USA Network, SciFi Channel, Bravo and vintage shows.

NBC Replaces Spurned iTunes With Fanfare

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Apple has delivered some amazing and successful products over the years, beginning with the groundbreaking Macintosh in the 1980s. 2007, however, may very well be Apple's biggest and most influential year yet. In January, Apple's CEO Steve Jobs set the tone for the next 12 months with the announcement of the now iconic iPhone, a device that had consumers drooling for months before it ever saw the light of day.

2007: Apple's Biggest Year Ever

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Consistent with my policy of staying at least five years behind technology, I am just now preparing to acquire an iPod. Actually, I'm inheriting one from my teenage daughter. I think it's called an iPod Dodo, owing to its outdated nature -- it's 2 years old. The Dodo holds 1,000 songs -- a woefully inadequate number by today's standard, I'm told.

Hand-Me-Up iPods, Hand-Me-Down Music