Microsoft aims to end Apple&#39;s sprint on music
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SAN JOSE, California Steve Jobs has promised that Apple Computer&#39;s iPod will become &quot;the Walkman of the 21st century,&quot; but for that to happen, Jobs must do what he failed to do in the 1980s: prevail over his old nemesis, Bill Gates, who sees entertainment
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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is waking up to the music. In the latest attempt to capture the fast-growing market of online music the big M is fighting to break the hold Apple&#39;s (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPod has on the market.
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Microsoft Corp.  said on  Thursday it will launch a 30-gigabyte "Zune" portable media  player, the software maker's answer to Apple Computer Inc.'s   market-leading iPod, in the United States this holiday  shopping season.
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Microsoft raises the curtain on its challenge to the iPod, the Zune digital media player.
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Opinion Microsoft has begun to try and win over the hearts, minds and hardware of mobile phone vendors in a bid to dominate the emerging market for music downloads on handsets.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Music Choice and Sprint are  launching a music service that allows mobile phone users to  view short videoclips and listen to radio-like programming on  their handsets.
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Microsoft Corp.'s effort to compete against Apple's iPod juggernaut will focus on the idea that people want to be able to easily share music with friends and others.
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The cellular telephone industry&#39;s game of musical chairs has started again, and the music may soon stop with one less chair. Nextel Communications is in advanced talks to merge with Sprint, according to executives involved in the negotiations.
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Microsoft (Quote, Chart) plans to push for a negotiated settlement of its antitrust dispute with the European Union (EU), even if it means deleting the Windows Media Player (WMP) from its operating system.
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Microsoft will jump into the music-downloading market this week, with the rollout of a new MSN online-music service that will compete with Apple&#39;s iTunes and RealNetworks&#39; Rhapsody.
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Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday its  new Zune music player will be sold at a price matching Apple  Computer Inc.'s market-leading iPod and, as a result, lose  money this holiday season.
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Microsoft Corp.  is developing  a music and video device to compete with Apple&#039;s iPod and  creating its own music service to rival Apple&#039;s iTunes, sources  familiar with the plans said on Friday.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer doesn&#39;t think Apple will lead the way to tomorrow&#39;s digital home - and describes iPod users as music thieves.
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Microsoft&#39;s has launched its MSN music download service in eight more European countries as the software giant bids to takes on Apple&#39;s market leading iTunes.
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Microsoft's Zune will have to work very hard to unseat the dominance of Apple's iPod and iTunes say industry experts.
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Microsoft Corp.  said on  Tuesday that it is "not unreasonable" for the company to  introduce a mobile phone combined with features of its Zune  digital music player to compete with Apple Inc.'s   iPhone.
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Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), hoping to take a bite out of Apple Computer Inc...