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...negotiating to put Beatles' songs online. But competition doesn't guarantee bargains. While Apple reveals its European prices this week, at $1.82 a song Napster costs U.K. subscribers 84% more than those in the U.S. Blame higher label fees, plus the VAT. iTunes, though, has a secret weapon: the iPod, the only digital player that can be used with the music store. "Apple traps iPod buyers...
...into iTunes so they are unable to shop where they want," rails Napster CEO Chris Gorog. Maybe, but for the Europeans among iPod's 2 million users worldwide, iTunes' arrival is music to their ears. France's Real Power Brokers France likes its picket lines. Strikes creating overcrowded subways or undelivered mail rarely dampen public support for striking workers. But sympathy sank last week when power workers cut off electric supplies at Paris' main train stations, stranding a half million angry passengers. After this fumble, the strikers are now scrambling to rally public opinion. In the northern city of Lille...
...Once I was workin’ out at the MAC and who should hop on the elliptical next to me but Chopra, sporting a classic shorts and T-shirt combo, toting an iPod and a wonderfully trashy magazine. Sweat dripping and arms pumping, we exchanged pleasantries...
...than 50 million 99˘ songs had been downloaded. Sometimes wrong is right enough, though. "I'm thrilled," he says. "It's been a great year." For a man whose marketing prowess is almost as brilliant as his imprint on the computer age, "great" is an understatement. His iTunes-to-iPod music strategy suggests a way to save the free-falling, Napster-knackered music industry. Pixar, his computer-animation studio, won another Academy Award this year, for Finding Nemo. But Jobs' major coup has been his reinvention of the venerable Apple Computer...
...IPOD MINI More than 100,000 of these purse-friendly music players have been sold in seven weeks. Pink ones...