Ballmer: &#39;No way&#39; Apple will win digital media war
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told invited press at a London briefing that Microsoft would prevail over Apple, Sony and other competitors when it comes to winning the hearts and minds of home consumers looking to integrate computer technology into their
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LinuxInsider: Microsoft&#39;s Steve Ballmer argued that the true amount of shifting from Microsoft to Linux in places like Europe and Asia has been overstated in the media.
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Apple Computer Inc.&#39;s reign as king of the digital music business is about to meet its most serious challenge as software heavyweight Microsoft Corp.
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The Motley Fool - War has been declared. Not the conventional type with the troops, tanks, and smart bombs, but an entertainment war for the &#36;3 billion global music player business. Creative Technology (Nasdaq: CREAF - News) has decided to move in against the giant Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL - News) in an attempt to capture a 40% market share for MP3 music players. In the three years since the iPod's launch, it has become the worldwide player of choice, claiming about 85% of the market, so to call this an uphill fight is something of an understatement.
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Microsoft&#39;s Steve Ballmer argued that the true amount of shifting from Microsoft to Linux in places like Europe and Asia has been overstated in the media.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs has made a surprise call for the end of digital rights management technology, which is designed to stop copyrighted music from being shared illicitly. Jobs says Apple would sell only DRM-free music on iTunes if it could.
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We may see the end of protected music downloads, but it won't be Apple's doing, argues Bill Thompson
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The iPod and iTunes will see competition from wireless network providers, according to the CEO of Warner Music Group. Speaking at the UBS Media Week Conference, Warner&#39;s Edgar Bronfman suggested
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Steve Jobs explains the new iPod lineup, the competitive pressures facing Apple and the potential for angry customers over the iPhone price cut.
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According to Philip Elmer-DeWitt (Fortune), Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, believes that Apple is âeffectively one year ahead of its competition.â Munster made the observation after touring the 2008 Consumer Electronics show and seeing reflected in the products there displayed unmistakable evidence of Appleâs achievements in hardware design, touchscreen devices, and ecosystem connectivity. Looking forward to âAppleâs Macworld announcements (1/15),â Munster expects Apple to set a similar âbar for CES â09.â
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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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(InfoWorld) - Talk about the coming iPhone and AppleTV deviceÂ dominated the discussion with the chief financial officer of AppleÂ at an investment conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Peter Oppenheimer, appearing at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference, declined to give specific unit sales forecasts for the new products but anticipated they will be strong. IDG News Service monitored the event via Webcast. "AppleTV will change the way people gather and purchase their digital content," said Oppenheimer of the $299 AppleTV, due out later this month. It is a set-top box that delivers digital content stored on a computer, including video purchased from Apple's iTunes online store, to a TV. However, the usefulness of the AppleTV may be tied to the amount of video content available on iTunes. Today, he said, 400 movies and 350 TV programs are available for downloads, with more added all the time. He said Apple recently reached agreements with film distributors Paramount Pictures and Lion's Gate Entertainment to sell downloads of their movies on iTunes. The much-anticipated Apple iPhone is scheduled to hit the market in June. The iPhone, which Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced at Macworld in January, features anÂ innovative touch-screen interfaceÂ on a combination phone, iPod, and e-mail and Internet access device. It will sell for $499 or $599 depending on storage capacity, and will require a two-yearÂ contract with Cingular Wireless, the mobile division of AT&T. He declined to comment specifically on a March 1 report from Morgan Stanley analyst Kathryn Huberty, who interviewed him at the conference, in which she raised her forecast for 2007 iPhone sales to 8 million from an earlier forecast of 6 million, based on a survey of 2,500 U.S. customers. "Half the demand is coming from the traditional high-end handset market and half from Apple's customer base," Huberty said. While not commenting on the forecast, Oppenheimer said the iPhone will be a "breakthrough product." "Though Apple is new to the mobile phone market, we believe the addressable market will grow quickly," he said. In itsÂ last quarterly earnings reportÂ on Jan. 17, Apple posted net income of $1 billion, or $1.14 per share, on revenue of $7.1 billion for the three months ended Dec. 30, 2006. Analysts forecast Apple to earn $0.62 per share on revenue of $5.16 billion in the current quarter, according to a consensus estimate produced by Thomson Financial. In a 40-minute conversation with Huberty, including questions from other analysts in the audience, Oppenheimer did not discuss theÂ stock options scandal at Apple. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco are investigating whether Apple improperly accounted for and disclosed the backdating of options. No charges have been filed. Â
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News Corp has no plans to pull its  television shows from iTunes like NBC Universal, but echoed the  media industry's calls for Apple to offer more flexible  pricing, a top executive said in an interview on Tuesday.
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Creative has declared war on Apple, aiming to capture a 40 per cent share of the MP3 music player market. Part of this campaign includes spending $100 million to market its digital music players.
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Steven P. Jobs is rebooting Appleâs digital movie effort and putting the company squarely in the middle of an intensifying industry battle.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday called on the four major record companies to start selling songs online without copy protection software known as digital rights management (DRM).
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The lead analyst of last week's JupiterResearch report showing a majority of music industry executives in the EU agreeing that a world without digital rights management would be a world with greater revenues, told BetaNews in an exclusive interview this afternoon that his firm believes a single, open, interoperable, standard DRM scheme would still be rejected by consumers.