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• 29 March 2006

• News: The Beatles vs. Apple, part III

  Apple Computer will face another legal challenge today, as the company representing the Beatles alleges that the sale of music through iTunes violates a 1991 agreement restricting how the computer maker would use its logo.

• 28 March 2006

• News: Microsoft faces another lawsuit in South Korea

  Microsoft faces more problems in South Korea after a company sued the US software giant over its bundling of Windows Media Player with the Windows OS.

• News: Walkman details appear online

  Sony declined to offer an immediate comment today after images and other details of a purported new series of Walkman digital music players appeared on the internet.

• 27 March 2006

• News: Microsoft appeals against Korea antitrust ruling

  Microsoft has filed an appeal to the Seoul High Court in South Korea, seeking to reverse a decision by the country's antitrust regulators that included an order to offer versions of its popular Windows OS without its Media Player and Instant Messenger software.

• 24 March 2006

• News: US government backs Apple against France

  The US government has taken Apple's side, condemning France's move to legislate for interoperable copy protection technologies.

• 22 March 2006

• News: Apple slams France as 'pirate' state

  Apple has slammed France's decision to force manufacturers to make their digital rights management systems interoperate.

• 14 March 2006

• News: Apple may be forced to open up iTunes

  France may force Apple and Microsoft to come up with a way to make songs bought using either company's technologies interoperable.

• 13 March 2006

• News: SanDisk leader shares 'iPod killer' insights

  SanDisk has aggressive plans to seize market share from Apple's iPod business.

• News: USB drives find a world of uses

  A USB memory stick that doubles as a portable VoIP phone and a 16GB personal storage device the size of a credit card were just two of the devices shown off at CeBit that combine flash memory and USB in interesting ways.

• 10 March 2006

• News: MSI displays solar-powered laptop and MP3 player

  MSI is showing off a laptop and an MP3 player at CeBit that use on-board solar panels to recharge and extend battery life.

• 06 March 2006

• News: Even Pope Benedict XVI has an iPod

  Vatican employees gave Pope Benedict XVI an iPod nano preloaded with Vatican Radio shows last week.

• 03 March 2006

• News: US to probe for digital music price fixing

  European record labels were keeping quiet this morning regarding a potential US Department of Justice investigation into digital music price fixing.

• 28 February 2006

• News: Sony Ericsson shows off Cyber-shot phones

  Sony Ericsson today announced several new mobile phones divided into two ranges: models that are music-centric, and ones that are aimed at those who like to take digital snaps. The latter will build on Sony's existing Cyber-shot compact digital camera brand.

• News: Microsoft keeps mum on Origami

  Customers may have to wait a while for the official word from Microsoft on its Origami Project, but more details have emerged from other sources.

• 27 February 2006

• News: Microsoft to announce Origami device this week?

  Is Microsoft planning to announce details of a portable device codenamed Origami later this week? That is the question raised by a website called Origami Project.

• 23 February 2006

• News: Wozniak: Microsoft is 'Darth Vader'

  Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak thinks the company should spin off its iPod division, and believes it's past time for Microsoft to shed its 'Darth Vader' image.

• 17 February 2006

• News: RIAA claims copying CDs to iPods is unlawful

  US record-label body the RIAA and movie-industry moguls at the MPAA are attempting to argue that copying a CD to a computer for carrying on an iPod does not constitute fair use.

• News: iTunes 'steals music's soul'

  Far from reinvigorating the music industry, iTunes makes music a disposable, faceless impulse item, a leading indie label executive has complained.

• 16 February 2006

• News: BBC massively ramps up available podcasts

  The BBC has begun the next stage of its planned move to ramp up the shows it makes available as podcasts.

• News: Amazon plans to take on iTunes, iPod

  According to reports today, Amazon plans to launch its own internet music service to rival Apple's iTunes Music Store.

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