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...record labels screwed themselves: "After almost eight years of stonewalling MP3s and Napster, major label employees gradually accepted the fact that freely selling digital music was the blueprint for survival. EMI's decision to sell MP3s was a step in this direction - as would be Amazon's MP3 store, MySpace Music, and the Radiohead model of giving away music online. But labels were still a long way from overcoming their outdated ideas. They clung stubbornly to long held beliefs that selling millions of pieces of plastic would return them to massive profits...
...said that the success of the iPhone and its Applications Store, whose 15,000 applets have been downloaded a half billion times, is causing competitors to try to follow Apple's lead. Cook then offered a veiled warning apparently directed at Palm, which is set to launch an iPhone competitor, the Pre, with its own touch screen-based interface. "We think competition is good. It makes us all better. And we are ready to suit up and go against anyone," he said. "However, we will not stand for having our IP [intellectual property] ripped off, and we will...
...Another store prepared to close by the end of this month is Cross, also located on Brattle Street. The store sold luxury business accessories for almost five years. Store manager Christopher H. Siren contributed its closing to “hard times...
...rent was too high for the store in Harvard Square to be maintained, Siren said. In order to pursue a less costly alternative, Cross is opening a kiosk in the Prudential Center to make up for this loss...
...Jillson said that the HSBA has been receiving two to three inquiries a week about available store space, many from businesses owned by women in the area...