CBS has said that they will mark down the iTunes pricing of some of its TV shows from $1.99 to $0.99.

CEO Les Moonves made the announcement during the company’s earnings call today,

“There are certain shows that will be sold on Apple for 99 cents.”

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BeejiveIM for iPhone has been updated to improve performance and add features such as dynamic message loading.

Stay connected to all your instant messaging buddies anywhere you go! BeejiveIM (pronounced \b?-h?v\ IM) keeps you in touch with your friends on AIM/MobileMe, MSN/Windows Live, Yahoo!, GoogleTalk, Facebook, MySpace, ICQ and Jabber… all at the same time, all on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
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Apple will begin test selling TV Shows for the half-price starting in April, according to the Financial Times.

Timed to coincide with the consumer debut of the iPad, US television shows will cost $1, down from the current price of $1.99. Apple is hoping the reduced cost of video programming will ignite sales.

Some television networks agreed to the lower prices after months of negotiations, and having initially resisted Apple’s push. Media executives are under pressure from declining DVD sales and cut-rate rental services such as Redbox, that offer rental DVDs for $1.
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Don’t pat yourself on the back too much for calling this one, but Warner CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. has now confirmed what many have suspected: higher iTunes pricing has led to slightly slower sales. Specifically, he says that while the variable pricing introduced early last year has been a “net positive” for the company, revenue growth on iTunes slowed to just eight percent in the last quarter, compared to a hefty 20 percent a year earlier. He is also quick to point out, however, that raising Read the full story

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Apple has activated in-browser previews for iPhone and iPod applications, improving their new iTunes Preview service.

In November, Apple quietly launched iTunes Preview, a preview for those iTunes links that used to just open the application. Previously, when linking to a song or album in iTunes your browser would open a blank page and prompt you to open the link with the iTunes application.
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Apple has stopped signing iPhone OS 3.1.2. This means that those with an iPhone 3GS or iPod touch 3 who did not use Cydia to store their TSS cannot restore to anything but OS 3.1.3.

If you fall into that category, Big Boss warns to please make sure you are very careful with what you do from now until the next jailbroken firmware. Be sure that you don’t do anything to your iPhone that may require a restore.
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