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[a blog about blogging by InstaBLOKE: a bloggers natural resource - blog tips, tools and news] Microsoft will be trying to replicate Apple's simple approach at providing an integrated, seamless ecosystem for digital media that is the key to its success with iPod/iTunes. It will be joining the ranks of Sony and others that also introduced a music service with its own software and player, but failed to make a dent in Apple's share of online music sales or sales of the iPod.
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[Gearlive.com] Gear Live | Home: Once the program has been identified, the technology scours the Internet for relevant data and media content. “All of this would be done without users ever having to type or to even know the name of the program or channel being viewed,”
[Pocketpcminds.com] Can you hear me now?: First Apple needs to be ready for this and Microsoft needs to get a move on if they want this over $4 billion a year market. “From shahine.com/omar/ blog .
[Techsearch.cmp.com] TechSearch | Blog Page: Microsoft's release of its Windows Media Player 11 in beta is the first part of a two-legged, do-or-die push to field a successful rival ecosystem to Apple's iPod. The second leg is URGE, the online music service Microsoft is starting as a joint venture with MTV, for which WMP 11 will serve as the key software element.
[Playlistmag.com] Playlist: The iPod Blog: Meeting Five spells the end as Motorola concludes that Apple wants too much control, Apple determines that if it’s going to have that much control it might as well make the phone itself, and both parties understand that going forward with a phone that’s basically last year’s model with iTunes poorly slapped onto it would produce a mediocre mobile that does neither company much good.
[Blog.holtz.com] a shel of my former self: Holtz Report - Podcast #28: April 28, 2005 .Apple Computers may not be able to make much of a dent in Microsofts domination of the computer .
[a blog about blogging by InstaBLOKE: a bloggers natural resource - blog tips, tools and news] Microsoft ready to Duke it out with Apple's... : Microsoft has confirmed what we already knew through the rumour mill, that it plans to release its own version of the extremely successful iPod. It will be bundled with software under the "Zune" brand later this year, no doubt just in time for the Christmas season to challenge the dominance of Apple Computer's player.
[jkOnTheRun] Open message to Microsoft about Zune: Microsoft, if you choose to put some whiz-bang features in the Zune players and media store, and those features require some level of computer savvy to set up and keep running properly, you will have missed the boat entirely. If you don’t believe that then you haven’t been paying attention through your PlaysForSure failure, and you haven’t noticed that dozens of audio players far superior to the iPod in features haven’t made a dent in iPod sales.
[Exclusive Concepts' Internet Marketing Blog] Weekly Roundup, April 7, 2006: The only podcast she listens to is NPR's On the Media which is a problem for NPR since no one wants to listen to incessant fundraising on the radio. Why should they when they can download programs for free.
[MacUser: Mac and Apple news, information, and opinion.] Nobody Puts iPod in a Corner: As for Microsoft and Google, it's easy enough to conjure up the names of these two industry giants as prospective bogeymen, but the numerous Microsoft-based music stores have made nary a dent in Apple's market share and music downloads don't quite seem to fit Google's business model (which is advertising-based).
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