| Movie Studio Deal, Ultra-Slim Laptop Wow Macworld Audience
According to Jobs, the tech giant has forged an alliance with all six major movie studios to offer just-released DVD films over high-speed Internet connections.
The service was launched in the U.S. Tuesday and will roll out internationally later this year.
The company will have more than 1,000 movies for online rental through iTunes by the end of February, with prices of $2.99 for older movies and $3.99 for new releases.
Users can watch instantly over a broadband Internet connection, or download and keep the movie for 30 days, with 24 hours to finish watching the movie once it's started.
Jobs also said the Apple TV console would no longer need a separate Mac computer in order to run properly.
New Ultra-Slim Laptop Unveiled Jobs also took the wraps off a super-slim new laptop Tuesday, unveiling a tiny personal computer that is less than an inch thick and turns on the moment it's opened.
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Testing scales to see if they measure up
They have no clue what we do," Smith said, explaining most people's grasp of the consumer affairs crews. The Barnstable Weights and Measures program travels to nine towns Capewide, making sure retailers are marking prices correctly and weighing everything from bananas to pills accurately. The other towns do not usually pay a fee. Instead, the Weights and Measures program collects fees and fines from individual businesses to pay for its operations. Other towns on the Cape use their own departments or get help from state officials. When drivers pump a gallon of gasoline, are they really getting a gallon? Are taxi cabs charging customers the right rates based on distance? Are prices advertised at department stores the same price rung up at the register? The three-member staff tries to get the answers.
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