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...handful of enterprising entrepreneurs find that attitude anachronistic. They're trying to make space in Asia's $5.2 billion music market for legal downloads. In 1999, Sudhanshu Saronwala quit his job as the managing director of MTV Asia to co-found the Singapore-based online-music store Soundbuzz. The venture made little progress for four years, but after iTunes proved a commercial success last year, Saronwala is trying again. "The labels have seen that online can be a real, viable distribution channel," says Saronwala. "The domestic labels as well as the internationals?everybody has pretty much embraced it wholeheartedly." Soundbuzz...
...debut of MSN Music, which is compatible with a range of players (iTunes files only work on the iPod). Hewlett-Packard has begun selling its own Apple-authorized iPod. And Asia may soon get its first regional digital-music store; Singapore's Soundbuzz, co-founded by a former MTV 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...
...your stereo or TV into it, and the chair also rubs you in rhythm. "We all know music relaxes the mind," says Osim representative Alan Tan. For those interested in revving up, the chair can also stimulate. "You can see an exciting movie, watch a concert, or just watch MTV and feel like you're there," Tan says. Sound from the TV or hi-fi translates into pulses in the chair, allowing daredevils to feel like they're swinging from the rooftops with Spiderman, while dancers can shake it with OutKast without ever getting up from the chair. Osim introduced...
...been five years since the spirituality-seeking Madonna, dressed in a sari and adorned with a tilaka marking on her forehead, sang a self-composed Sanskrit song at the MTV awards before a backdrop of Hindu god images?simultaneously raising the West's awareness of Hinduism and incurring the ire of the religion's faith police. Things Indian have only gotten trendier since. But as Madonna discovered, cashing in on Hinduism can be a mixed blessing...
With her first major film role and two books on the way, Alicia Keys is conquering new territory. But on Aug. 29 the soul princess of Queens will return to more familiar turf: performing with her piano at MTV's Video Music Awards...