IPod Rivals Square Off Against Apple
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A new generation of smaller, sleeker and cheaper MP3 players from the likes of Sony, Rio, Creative and Rave MP are hitting the market this fall, and they all have Apple Computer&#39;s white-hot digital music player in their sights.
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Apple Inc&#39;s hefty iPhone price cut  pits it in direct competition with handsets from Motorola Inc  and Palm Inc, which are struggling to convince Wall Street they  can turn around their aging brands.
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Microsoft Corp. confirmed Friday it's working on music and entertainment products that are expected to compete with Apple Computer Inc.'s wildly popular iPod and iTunes music service.
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Apple Inc.  aims to build on  the success of its iPod music player with the new iPhone  wireless device, but it faces a crowded and competitive market  in taking on established cell phone makers.
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Several rivals of Apple Computer Inc.  plan digital music devices to work closely with their own  online music services, just as Apple's iPods and iTunes do, The  Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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NEW YORK - It&#39;s never a smart move to pick a public fight with Apple Computer, and it&#39;s doubly unwise if that fight involves the iPod in some way.
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Apple iTunes has even more competition on their hands. HMV has joined hands with Appleâs primary challenger in the digital music stores market Microsoft.
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Apple Computer Inc.  may have sold more than twice as many of its iPod digital music players in its most recent quarter than its signature Mac computers, but competitors are turning the up the heat in the nascent online music industry.
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Microsoft&#39;s online music store, known as MSN Music store, is being hailed as the most capable competitor to the iTunes Music Store of California&#39;s Apple.
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Apple Computer Inc. will pay $100 million to rival Creative Technology Ltd. to settle patent lawsuits over technology for navigating through songs on the popular iPod digital music player, the companies said Wednesday.
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ReignCom, a South Korean pioneer in digital music players, released a new device to challenge the iPod Mini, one of the world's best-selling products from US electronics giant Apple.
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Computer Giants Apple are facing the biggest legal payout in history as they once again battle their courtroom nemesis, also named Apple.
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Apple Computer Inc has rolled out a new iPod that allows users to view and share photos as it opened nine new iTunes music stores in Europe, spurring its rivalry with Microsoft Corp and others.
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By Troy WolvertonMicrosoft's Zune had a decent debut last month, but Apple Computer's iPods continued to dominate the MP3 market, according to new data from market research firm NPD Group released this week.
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At least a dozen portable music players are angling to steal sales away from Apple Computer Inc.'s wildly popular line of iPods this holiday season. In the past month alone, five companies have unveiled their iPod challengers &#151; pocket-sized players with hard disks that can store anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 songs.
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Creative Technology is firing a shot across Apple's digital music bow.
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Microsoft&#39;s WMA, Apple&#39;s ACC, Sony&#39;s Altrac and others -- compete in a variety of digital music devices, support for MP3 is becoming a required ingredient for any successful portable player.