Motorola bets on music phones in tough market (Hindustan Times)

Motorola, trying to gain market share in a competitive Indian market that includes strong players like Nokia, Sony-Ericsson and Samsung, feels that there would be a huge surge in music-optimized phones and video music phones in India.


Universal Music's rebellion against Apple portends growing tension between the music industry and the iPod (International Herald Tribune)

The symbiosis between the industry and Steve Jobs is likely to continue, but the Universal Music move signals resentment over his rigidity in pricing and proprietary management software.


"Earth" telecast: Energetic music, disposable chat (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

No question about it. "Live Earth," on NBC and its sister cable channels, was a more-pleasing, less-crazed and better-organized telecast than the bungled broadcast of "Live 8" on MTV only a couple of years ago. The commercial load was lighter, the hosts were less frenzied and the performances were treated with infinitely greater respect.


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International Herald Tribune - NEW YORK: So omnipotent is the Apple digital music machine that just the possibility of one of its main suppliers holding back some of its music from Apple's iTunes music store is enough to make headlines and send shock waves. That is what happened ...