NewsFactor – CBS Interactive wants to be sure television viewers don’t miss their favorite television shows when they aren’t able to sit in front of the tube. Select full episodes, news updates, and clips from CBS can now be viewed by iPhone and iPod touch users by downloading a free TV.com app from Apple’s App Store.

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CBS Makes Television Shows Available on iPhone
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Nokia made plenty of folks happy with its decision to include Skype on its new N97 handset, and future N-series devices, but it looks like the usual cadre of UK carriers aren’t among them, and they’re now making their displeasure quite clear. That includes O2 and Orange, who are apparently threatening to refuse stock of the N97 unless Nokia strips out the Skype client, a point they have reportedly made directly to Nokia in “high-level discussions.” Another unnamed “operator source” was apparently even more blunt, saying that this is “another example of them trying to build an ecosystem that is all about Nokia and reduces the operator to a dumb pipe,” adding that, “some people like 3 may be in a position where it could make sense to accept that. But if you spend upwards of

Sure, the pic’s getting old at this point, but according to the Boy Genius Report, we may not have too much longer to wait to catch the 9630 Niagara in the wild. The radio department in the 9630 is filled to busting — or slowly warming your face — with CDMA, EV-DO Rev.A, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and UMTS, with the GSM flavors getting the quad-band treatment. The rumored OS at launch is 4.7.1, though if delayed enough, it could pull through with OS 5.0. The last tidbits in the list are a 3.2 megapixel shooter — and maybe a version without — and the depressing news of no specific release date. Though, If we were Verizon and were sitting on this, you’d like to think that our timeline to launch would be as soon as frickin’ possible.

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Is RIM’s BlackBerry 9630 Niagara headed to Verizon as World Edition? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The controversy surrounding the Kindle 2’s text to speech functionality continues unabated, and as we delve further into the legal back ‘n forth between Amazon and the Authors Guild, we wonder if we haven’t discovered the true identity of “Tom.” According to David Pogue, the New York Times journalist has received an email from a certain adult contemporary heartthrob named Tom Glynn, claiming to be the source of the mysterious voice. What do you guys think — would you pay $359 for this guy to read you a bed time story?

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Is this the voice behind Kindle’s text to speech feature? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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PC World – Alaska Airlines is the latest carrier to launch in-flight Wi-Fi, offering passengers on a specially equipped Boeing 737 a service that uses satellites instead of cellular towers to connect the plane to the Internet.

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Alaska Becomes Latest Airline With Wi-Fi
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