Amazon is teaming up with EMI and surely others to offer music that isn’t subject to all those annoying restrictions on using the tunes you download from the Internet.
This is an important development for two reasons.
First, it’s a sign that music publishers are coming to their senses and realizing that fighting the spread […]

Apple’s iPhone is scheduled to hit the Cingular shelves late June. Until then Apple is following the tight integration/walled garden strategy that made its iPod-iTunes combo the gorilla to beat in the digital music world.
A recent posting on seekingalpha.com noted that Apple is also keep third-party apps off of iPhone. The author speculated this […]

Apple provides a cautionary tale to anyone who is thinking about the catalyst strategies that have driven much of the IT growth in the last twenty years and are powering Web 2.0 ahead.
Apple’s profit soared to its highest quarterly level according to the company’s second-quarter release yesterday. Interestingly, although almost half its profits […]