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  • Will record labels play in Microsoft's band?

    As the major record labels try to remake online music in their own image, Microsoft's presence is looming powerfully enough to influence the biggest alliances in the business--even if the software giant hasn't struck the big deals itself.

  • Legal Napster up and running

    Napster is back, with an inescapable marketing campaign that's put the familiar kitty-with-earphones logo everywhere, from Yahoo Mail boxes to stickers seen on the streets of San Francisco.

  • Napster turns up volume on new service

    Napster is to give a preview of its new look, and is confident that it will emerge from litigation a force to be reckoned with

  • The Napster legacy could be a problem

    Napster may have been defanged, but other rogue peer-to-peer music services still exist. Even if the music industry were to crush these services too, millions of music fans won't forget the Napster experience.

  • The Year 2000 in review

    The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.

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