• Portfolio, Wednesday, July 9, 2008 9:30 AM

It was only a matter of time after Fox boss Rupert Murdoch bought The Wall Street Journal until he tapped the paper's business news reporters to boost his fledgling Fox Business Network. Sure enough, the company announced that Walt Mossberg, the Journal's gadget guru, would launch a weekly tech segment on FBN this week.

The problem is that Fox Business rival CNBC has an exclusive content partnership with WSJ through 2012. So how did FBN get around the CNBC agreement?

Apparently the restrictions do not apply to non-business news or breaking news, so Mossberg can talk about only non-business technology. That seems to rule out any discussion of the new iPhone, set to go on sale on Friday.

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