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• 10 August 2006

• News: Creative suffers poor fourth quarter

  Creative, the leading challenger to the iPod in the digital music player market, reported its second consecutive quarterly loss as it battles strong competition from rivals and mobile phones with built-in music players.

• 08 August 2006

• News: Nokia plans iTunes killer

  Mobile phone giant Nokia is set to buy digital music distributor Loudeye for $60 million. The move is seen as the first step in an attempt by the handset maker to develop a music download service that can challenge iTunes.

• 05 August 2006

• News: Apple's reputation takes a knock

  Traditionally seen as an innovative and unique company, Apple's reputation may be suffering as its sales figures rocket.

• 04 August 2006

• News: French copyright law takes effect

  Software publishers and Socialist Party members are among the groups unhappy with the French copyright law that takes effect today.

• 01 August 2006

• News: Mashboxx supported by major record label

  Mashboxx, a legal P2P service currently in development, will have the entirity of record label EMI's catalogue of digital recordings at its disposal.

• News: Apple responds to Nordic criticism

  Apple has replied to criticism of its iTunes DRM policy, meeting a deadline set by consumer agencies in Scandinavia, an advisor at Norway's Consumer Council said today.

• News: Will Apple fail without Jobs?

  The fortunes of Apple are inextricably linked with those of company co-founder Steve Jobs.

• 31 July 2006

• News: 'New iPod' available in Chocolate

  Although it's been available in the UK for some time, US mobile phone users will soon be offered LG's new cell phone, dubbed 'Chocolate'. And network operator Verizon Wireless is marketing it as a digital music player that will challenge Apple's ubiquitous iPod.

• News: French copyright law gets tougher

  France's Constitutional Council has made an already strict copyright law even tougher, modifying three articles of the law and striking out a fourth in a review of its constitutionality.

• 28 July 2006

• News: Microsoft to spend big on Zune marketing

  Microsoft is ready to take the fight to Apple in the digital music market by flexing its financial muscle.

• 27 July 2006

• News: Music industry and Kazaa kiss, make up

  Kazaa today settled two major cases against it out of court.

• News: Video podcast support added to PSP

  Video podcast support is coming to the PlayStation Portable, thanks to a firmware update Sony published today.

• 26 July 2006

• News: Microsoft needs to clarify spending

  Analysts are looking for Microsoft to this week shed more light on how it expects its fiscal 2007 spending to pay off for the company and its shareholders.

• 25 July 2006

• News: Dell feeling Apple's pressure

  If recent remarks made by Michael Dell are anything to go by, his company is feeling the pressure caused by Apple's gathering momentum in the PC market.

• News: Zune project may create problems for MS

  It may be Microsoft's partners, rather than Apple and its iPod and iTunes service, that suffer from the Zune project, an analyst has warned.

• 24 July 2006

• News: Yahoo begins selling DRM-free song

  Yahoo last week became one of the first mainstream digital music sites to sell a song without DRM copy protection.

• News: Microsoft's iPod rival coming this year

  Microsoft has confirmed it will put products to rival Apple's tremendously successful iPod and iTunes digital music offerings on the market later this year.

• 20 July 2006

• News: 'Deaf generation' result of digital music

  Recently released research claims the youth of today could go deaf up to 30 years earlier than previous generation.

• News: More iPod phone rumours surface

  Apple recently hinted at exciting developments in the digital music market.

• News: White headphones lead to robberies

  Recent UK crime statistics suggest that iPods and other small portable devices are continuing to fuel a crimewave.

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