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...Europe, thanks to the success of iTunes, which recently sold its 100 millionth song. Even Microsoft is shouldering its way into the business. Last week, the software giant launched its U.S. online-music store, MSN Music. But to the frustration of millions of willing Asians with MP3 players and broadband connections, buying the latest hits online is difficult, because the big U.S. music sites are ignoring the region and local alternatives...
...Asia exec, plans to move into Hong Kong, India and Taiwan by year's end. Have the music biz's blues turned to blue sky? Many think so. Downloading "will be as big as the cell-phone market," predicts Sim Wong Hoo, CEO of Creative, a maker of MP3 players. Forrester Research says Europe's download market could grow from €53 million this year to €3.5 billion by 2009. Still, most services are limited to a few big markets like Britain, where the top 20 tracks tallied just over 100,000 downloads in a week, total...
...some ways, though, Japan's Olympians are still restricted by a hidebound hierarchy. When their coach saunters by their training corner at the Athens Aquatic Center, members of Japan's swimming team rip off their MP3-player headphones and bob their heads in a simultaneous expression of fealty. Their coach is still called sensei, or master...
Zuckerberg did not deny that his site could be used for the spread of copyrighted MP3 files, but added that the possibility did not mean that his program should be viewed as illicit...
...propels LG to develop more advanced products and provides a testing ground for new technologies. LG has outpaced Nokia and Motorola in cramming the hottest new features into a mobile phone. One of its latest models, the SC8000, which came out in Korea in April, combines a pda, an MP3 player, a digital camera and a camcorder. The advantage is paying off. In May, LG launched a new mobile phone in Korea with a 2-megapixel color screen simultaneously with Samsung. In the past, LG lagged at least several months behind its competitor's phone launches, missing out on higher...