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...launch more than a year ago, Apple's iTunes music store is expected online in Europe this week, with the U.K., France and Germany its likely first markets. But Apple should brace for a fight: more than 50 online music sites already play to 800,000 subscribers in Europe. Napster went legit in the U.K. last month, and plans to expand in Europe. Sony Connect plans to cross the Atlantic within weeks. Even Microsoft is reportedly 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...
...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...
Harvard announces that it will not block access to Napster. Daniel D. Moriarty, assistant provost for information technology, will send a letter to Dr. Dre and Mettallica attorney Howard E. King informing him that Harvard has refused his request to restrict access to the music-sharing service...
...spending more, we have to prioritize," he says. So will the developed world tick off the items on his list? Maybe - but as Lomborg notes, the West tends to "overworry about the problems that look good on TV." - By Adam Smith A Song For Europe Online music store Napster opened up in Britain, beating Apple's iTunes in the race to launch in Europe. But success isn't certain: U.K. rival OD2 promptly cut its download prices in half. Napster hopes to roll out elsewhere in Europe by year...
...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...