Word: mp3
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...enterprise commitment to upgrade," said Intel chief financial officer Andy Bryant recently. It's not surprising that he sees it that way, since computers and servers used in businesses and telecommunications networks traditionally drive chip growth. This time around, consumer sales are driving: autos, PCs, DVD players, MP3 devices, set-top boxes, cell phones and digital cameras. Jean-Philippe Dauvin, chief economist at STMicroelectronics, says that from the mid-'90s until the end of last year, a typical European car like the VW Golf contained semiconductors worth around $70, but this year's models contain $220 worth of chips...
...over a potentially massive revenue opportunity. There are already a couple of dozen legal, pay-to-play downloading services, including Pressplay, Listen.com's Rhapsody and Music Net. Apple Computer has a new service, which was slated for rollout this Monday, that's meant to integrate seamlessly with its iPod MP3 player and its iTunes music software. Movie and TV downloading websites are sprouting up as well. Movielink, which is backed by five major Hollywood studios, made its debut in November and features a library of more than 300 films. SoapCity.com offers online episodes of daytime serials...
...month--but it's slow work. The for-pay services also mire users in a mesh of restrictions that limit what they can do with the music they download. That $9.95 plan at Pressplay buys you unlimited downloads, but you can't move the songs to your portable MP3 player or burn copies of them onto a CD, and you can listen to them only so long as you're a Pressplay subscriber. Miss a payment, and the files lock up. For $8 more a month, Pressplay gives you 10 "portable" downloads that are free of those constraints. But compare...
...said, I am not a crook. I've never stolen anything--anything, that is, besides music. But I confess to being an unrepentant ex-Napsterite, now a LimeWire artist. I can find almost any tune online. I download songs to my computer and then off-load them to my MP3 player or burn them onto CDs to play in my car. Like tens of millions of others, I don't consider myself particularly immoral...
Launching April 15 with a flight from New York City to West Palm Beach, Fla., Song plans by October to equip each of its Boeing 757s with an impressive array of high-tech amenities, starting with an MP3 jukebox that lets passengers create customized playlists culled from hundreds of music albums. Using touch-screen monitors mounted on the back of each seat, travelers will also be able to surf 24 channels of live satellite TV, challenge their seatmates to multiplayer video games from Nintendo and map the airplane's exact location--zooming in to street-level detail on the terrain...