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...application that some observers see as a potential challenger to Apple's own iTunes music player, which iPhone owners use to listen to their downloaded tunes. "Apple has made it clear in the past that iPhone apps should enhance the experience, not compete with its core functionality," says Mark Mulligan, a London-based analyst with Forrester Research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Apple Open the iPhone to Rival Spotify? | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

That Spotify is going ahead with its plan to launch the application before the official O.K. from Apple is either a sign of supreme confidence or savvy publicity. "Spotify are masters of utilizing the Web to drive buzz and consumer interest," says analyst Mulligan. If the company does get the nod from Apple, it will be just the first step in the company's quest to get the world streaming. There's also a Google-based application for non-Apple phones in prototype and a plan to launch the regular Web-based application in the U.S. before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Apple Open the iPhone to Rival Spotify? | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

...Sharkey, CEO of U.K. Music, an organization representing the interests of the commercial music industry (and a former pop singer himself), reckons that the success of the anti-copyright movement among young voters "sends a message that we need to think about how we are approaching the issue." Mark Mulligan, an analyst at technology-research company Forrester, agrees. "The problem with looking to legislation to help meet business ends is that the results are often unfavorable to all affected business parties," he says. "Legislation simply cannot move quickly enough to keep up with the evolution of peer-to-peer technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Stumbling in Efforts to Battle Internet Piracy | 6/13/2009 | See Source »

...this, and fix it we will," the narrator intones over footage of people streaming out of public transport, a runner with a prosthetic leg, a hockey player felled in the agony of defeat. Finally the spot urges viewers to just get past it - essentially calling a massive corporate mulligan - and exits with ousted-reality-TV-contestant-style defiance: "The only chapter we're focused on is Chapter 1." (See the 50 worst cars of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GM's New Ad Campaign: Will It Restart the Engines? | 6/11/2009 | See Source »

...Napoleon Bonaparte, because that's how long it took him to return from exile, reinstate himself as ruler of France and wage war against the English and Prussian armies before his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. (It actually took 111 days, but we'll give him a mulligan.) Napoleon reclaimed power in 1815, however; Americans didn't start assessing their Presidents in 100-day increments until Franklin Delano Roosevelt came along more than a century later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 100-Day Benchmark: It All Started with Napoleon | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

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