You’d think the tables have really been turned now that Microsoft is trying to explain why Wall Street shouldn’t downgrade its stock. After all, it needs a huge slush fund to fight competition from Google and Yahoo, so if profits aren’t so great for a while, well, no big deal. Besides, how much more money […]

Up till now, you could be certain of one thing with Apple’s iTunes Music Store, and that is a 99 cents price for a single track. Yes, I’ve seen a few complete albums that exceed the standard $9.99 price, but, in all fairness, a few for less. This mostly uniform price structure has been the […]

At one time I regarded The Wall Street Journal as the most prestigious newspaper in the world. Even when The New York Times seemed to lose its way, you could always depend on the venerable WSJ to deliver the news shorn of the usual politically correct spin. Now I’m not about to say that the […]

Before the dust settled on the introduction of the Napster-To-Go online music rental service, reports about breaking its copy protection technique began to surface. Of course, it’s actually Microsoft’s Digital Rights Management scheme, but that’s beside the point. I first got wind of it as I was taping an interview for this week’s episode of […]