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MSN searches for leverage
News Including commercial search, MSN's sales from Internet ads were $1bn (£0.55bn) last year, the company said. You have plans to introduce a music service. Mehdi, who recently launched MSN Video and MSN Premium Internet access, also has plans to...
[April 6, 2004, 12:20]
Mobiles transform into mosquito repellers
News Sales of ring tones have generated revenue for mobile phone carriers in Asia and Europe, and US sales of ring tones are beginning to pick up. From personalised ringback music to mosquito-repelling tones, Asian telcos are getting creative in pursuit...
[July 11, 2003, 10:14]
Apple to develop iTunes for Windows
News Apple makes the bulk of its income from sales of Mac hardware, and its software efforts have been directed at making the hardware platform more attractive to buyers. The Mac maker said on Monday that it would extend its music service to Windows...
[May 1, 2003, 7:24]
Signs of new iPod from Apple
News Although PC sales continue to remain sluggish, shipments of flat panels have been doubling annually, according to analyst reports. The new iPod, which will hold approximately twice as much music as the earlier 5GB model, will cost $499 (£350...
[March 21, 2002, 8:50]
Trend-spotters blog to stay at the top
News Our record sales are doing well. John Lawton, director of online sales and marketing for Penguin, cited the campaign for the recently released "My War", a book by an Like the Web itself, the impact of such grassroots opinions has grown...
[November 16, 2005, 12:00]
Microsoft stirs it up with Windows XP bash
News And PC makers hope Windows XP will spur sales of new PCs. Sales are on the decline in 2001. With computer sales at record lows, "it is important to get the buzz out there as early as possible," LeTocq said.
[August 24, 2001, 13:27]
Power Mac G5 proves popular
News Sales of the Power Mac are critical for Apple because of their high profit margins and because they are used by graphics and music professionals; a key market for the Mac. Apple is counting on the new machines to improve Power Mac sales, which have...
[August 19, 2003, 11:25]
Press your own CDs is music industry's next move
News According to BT account manager Sean Lowry, the company is considering its options in the network delivery of digital music to high street music outlets. Under the scheme, BT would provide a private network to music shops so retailers could...
[April 27, 1999, 9:16]
Apple shares rally amid flash-based iPod rumours
News Apple's stock has continued to soar along with sales of its iPod digital music player, topping $50 a share for the first time in four years. Brokerage firm Merrill Lynch this week upped its financial forecast for Apple based on a prediction of...
[October 29, 2004, 14:44]
Double-sided disc combines CD and DVD
News The announcement comes as traditional music sales are under pressure from online file swapping and legal downloads from the Internet. The consortium, which includes major labels EMI Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and...
[August 25, 2004, 8:50]
Canadian record industry faces $60bn copyright fine
Blog Comment This is not only a threat to traditional packaged sales of music, TV and film, it will also kill off piracy. Jesus Christ! There going after the banker's titleship, so one has to wonder how many major studio's have setup shop in Canada withing the...
[December 7, 2009, 21:14]
Teaching old dogs new DVD tricks?
Talkback As long as the media business provides whith crappy drm formats the music business in big is doomed.decrese of CD sales in Swden.yea take that bite SONY BMG , Riaaa , Microsft (creates the drm software) and all other idiots out there.While p2p...
[November 30, 2005, 23:05]
Fighting Microsoft's licence check
Talkback Software piracy DOES reduce sales of software, that i can guarantee, for music it increases my purchases but for software it either stops me buying it when i get a pirated version or else if i cant find the software i dont bother with it.if i am...
[June 29, 2006, 10:17]
Consumer demand fuels chip boom
News With sales of NOR flash memory also buoyant, thanks to the popularity of digital cameras and music players, the SIA believes the chip market can look forward to a bright future. Global sales of semiconductors jumped nearly 10 percent year-on-year...
[July 4, 2006, 13:05]
Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical review
Reviews Most are useful, but others seem superfluous -- do you really need more than one 'shopping' button (which, by default, points to the Logitech sales site), for example? Besides the 105 traditional keys, it provides a scroll wheel and 19 shortcut...
[March 21, 2002, 23:00]
Apple celebrates rosy results
News Sales of music-related products and services other than the iPod, including the iTunes store, totaled $452m. Buoyed by greater than 30 percent growth in both Mac and iPod sales, the company said it earned $546m in net quarterly profit, or 62 cents...
[October 19, 2006, 9:15]
Will Apple live up to Macworld hype?
News Rather than hunkering down and riding out a protracted slump in PC sales, Apple Computer appears to be starting the new year where it left off in 2001: pushing the envelope with sleek new products. Although designs for an Apple-branded Palm are...
[January 5, 2002, 6:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Online music sales? Thursday 1/4/2004 Memo to Google: don't announce a brand new service with lots of weird ideas on April 1st. While everyone expects BMW to pull a fast one -- the in-car cookery control was a fine example -- and the BBC doesn't do...
[April 2, 2004, 18:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Nobody makes the copyright situation explicit, but try reading any broadband sales material without coming across glowing references to music downloads. Monday 8/10/2001 Embattled BT is getting slightly more exposure than it might like, as bitter...
[October 15, 2001, 19:00]
Apple confirms product launch
News The company also updated its iLife and iWork software products, but announced little in its music business, which now makes up more than half of the company's overall sales. Apple confirmed on Tuesday that it plans to introduce some "fun, new...
[February 22, 2006, 13:40]
