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Possible Apple is still lucky. By the Big name, they can hold mutually EMI music lable for song content. But Payplay has not as lucky as Apple. Lot of they songs content are band without lable or indie label. While Digital Beat Store, even has not applied online system payment, but is the first online music shop which capable to accomodate Indonesia indie song. Amazon till now has just sold music in the Album form by online, but the rumor said they will launch music retail this year.

Apparition of online music shop more or less is influence to the change of industry music distribution. At the same time is first step to eliminate the useless of Digital Right Management (DRM) protection. Initially DRM is expected able to depress number of piracy song but in the reality, piracy always happens. Moreover with the cheap price of download song indicates that DRM only add charges only. The proof, online store its gives the song price that competitive and cheap enough.

Online store is believed to have excessive appreciation pattern to someone masterpiece. Till now song creator or music singer must divide their advantage with the record lables which work as publisher. Hence no wonder if more bands and artist without lable joining in sale of online music that advantage gotten from sale also bigger.

Apple has own selling system. US $1,29 for songs without DRM, while for song with DRM is esteemed by 99 cents only. While Payplay, what claims has 1,3 million song lists, only sell 88 cents for one song.

Like reported from Tech Crunch, Apple stocks go down at 11:56 till 12:02 PM period, 17 May 2007 local time. The decrease from US $107.89 to $103.42 is referred same as loss of market capitalization fund equal to US $4 billion.

Latter, Engadget is correct the news. That news in fact came from a fake e-mail, even though that fake e-mail looks original because coming from inside of Apple network. Apple stocks get restored in about 20 minute after the correction.

The news source represents an internal memo about the delay of iPhone and OS X Leopard launching. Michael Arrington, observer of 2.0 web sites, confessing that source in the internal memo form is a "gold farm" that usually wrong rarely. But in this time, that e-mail content is spurious although mentioned come from Apple server.

Even cannot be blamed, Engadget blog estimated will experience of the crisis belief from the reader. "In future if Engadget present the news kind like this, people will make the speculation concerning its truth. Need some time before its recover," said Arrington.

On the other side, Arrington noticed, Apple exactly can be blamed if the e-mail correctness comes from the internal network of Apple Company. "Other mistake from Apple is not immediately response the rumor after engadget post the news," Arrington enhance.

20/5/2007

Shipments of iPods raised 24%, to 10.5 million, in the quarter. A cellphone version, called iPhone, is due in June.

Mac shipments jumped 36%, to 1.5 million - three times the industry increase rate, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a report.

The results come a day after two former Apple executives were charged with offensively handling the backdating of stock options. Apple earned $770 million, or 87 cents a share, in its second quarter. Revenue soared 21%, to $5.3 billion.

It was Apple's most gainful March quarter, Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer said in a conference call.

Investors have mostly ignored Apple's stock-options problems, although there are remaining questions about Jobs' role.

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Research which have been done previously show the mean mount accuracy of a doctor to recognize the heart beat that showing problem in heart only about 40 gratuity. But, the ability proven to twofold mount after exercising with iPod. In that research, 149 internist doctor listening five variation of heart beat during 400 times in 90 minute.

" Efficiency of using the stethoscope and ability to recognize abnormal heart beat are the important skill to identify heart disease and minimize the depending of costly equipments," said the chief research Dr. Michael Barrett, doctor and cardiology professor from Temple Doctor and Hospital University . Detection appliance like echocardiogram, he said, unnecessary often weared and use only at attack moment of acute condition.

Barrett so sure by the way to improving the ability is true depended by exercising continuously. Not from the study in class or demonstration in laboratory. With other digital music player, besides iPod, this ability perhaps also can decrease even not yet been proved.

Two last year, radiologist from California University Los Angeles Dr. Osman Ratib and Dr. Antoine Rosset also use the iPod with big capacity to save the scan result image. By Osirix open source software which been developed by him, all radiologist can share the video and image in iPod which incircuit with the desktop computer base on Mac through the teleconfrent. Nowaday all doctor can so easily share the medical information.

The companies said Apple will be allowed to use the name for its sleek new multimedia device in exchange for exploring wide-ranging “interoperability” between the companies’ products in the areas of security, consumer and business communications.

No other details of the agreement were released, and representatives from both companies declined to comment beyond their short joint statement.

The companies both said they would dismiss any pending legal actions regarding the trademark.

The showdown between the Silicon Valley tech heavyweights erupted last month when Cisco sued Apple in San Francisco federal court claiming that Apple’s use of the iPhone name constituted a “willful and malicious” violation of a trademark that Cisco has owned since 2000.

Cisco’s Linksys division has been using the trademark since last spring on a line of phones that make free long-distance calls over the Internet using a technology called Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP.

The lawsuit was filed a day after Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs unveiled his own company’s iPhone, a multimedia device that operates over the cellular network instead of the Internet.

Apple initially called the lawsuit “silly” and argued that it was entitled to use the name because the phones operate over different networks and would not compete with each other.

Cisco maintained that in an era of “convergence” — where increasingly intelligent networks and devices can handle a variety of different types of voice, video, data and other transmissions — the two companies’ phones could eventually take on different features and wind up competing head-to-head.

The result would be “confusion, mistake and deception among consumers,” according to the lawsuit.

Negotiations between the companies broke down just hours before Jobs’ dramatic unveiling of the product Jan. 9 in San Francisco.

The sticking point apparently was Cisco’s demand that in order to use the iPhone name, Apple would have to open up its famously closed products to communicate with some of Cisco’s offerings.

Neither company would discuss what future products might come from the collaboration. But analysts said the deal could help both companies strengthen their positions in the increasingly fierce battle to deliver video and other applications through the network directly to consumers’ homes.

Zeus Kerravala, a network infrastructure analyst with Yankee Group, said there are ample opportunities for the companies to dream up collaborative projects to win over consumers.

One possibility, he said, could be the creation of a Linksys device that users call into to record podcasts that are then automatically uploaded to iTunes, which would make the creation and dissemination of such programs easier.

However, he cautioned that both companies need to be willing to share in order to make the partnership work.

“If the two actually can work together, then the combination of the two is obviously more powerful than the two butting heads,” he said. “There’s no company out there that understands network service like Cisco. And you could argue no other company understands user experience like Apple.”

The dispute highlights the shifting business strategies for both companies.

Cisco, which is Silicon Valley’s most richly valued company with a market capitalization of $166 billion, makes most of its money by selling the routers and switches that direct data traffic over computer networks.

However, the San Jose-based company is also making an aggressive push into the consumer market and toward products that help deliver content, such as cable set-top boxes, wireless broadband routers for the home, and equipment for playing digital music.

Cupertino-based Apple is also expanding its business range from beyond primarily a Macintosh computer and software maker as it capitalizes on the demand for digital music and the soaring popularity of its iTunes and iPod products.

Legal experts said Cisco’s argument that the phones could eventually compete seemed like an unlikely scenario. They added that the products and markets they serve are currently so dissimilar there’s little likelihood of future trademark tangles.

“Although Cisco is making the point that we don’t know what the future brings, it just strikes me that their markets are plenty distinct, and there’s probably room for them to find peaceful cooperation,” said James Pooley, an intellectual property litigator and adjunct law professor at the University of California at Berkeley. “They’re not naturally going to be stepping on each other’s toes very much, so cooperation makes a whole lot of sense.”

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point given Apple's penchant for coloring lower-end iPods, advance word of the release nonetheless escaped the media, Think Secret sources included.

Aside from the colors, Apple left the iPod shuffle alone, and the music player will continue to sell for $79 in a 1-Gbyte capacity. Whether the new colors will spur sales of the shuffle remains to be seen; the original silver iPod shuffle, which continues to be sold, fared phenomenally well during the holiday quarter, capturing the top spot on Amazon.com's Best Sellers in Electronics and contributing significantly to Apple's total iPod sales.

Apple does not break down iPod sales by model, but the company's staggering quarterly sales of 21 million iPods, a unit increase of 50 percent from the previous year, improved iPod revenue only 18 percent year-over-year, suggesting that many of the iPods sold were towards the low end of the product line. Regardless, the iPod shuffle is a key money maker for Apple, boasting some of the highest profit margins among iPods despite its relatively low $79 price tag, sources say. All told, it's a success story for a product that many had left for dead after nearly two years had passed without an update to the original white "gum pack" iPod shuffle, which debuted in January 2005.

Apple has touted brighter displays with nearly every major revision to its laptops in recent history. In announcing the MacBook last year, the company said the laptop sported a display that was "79 percent brighter" than the 12-inch iBook and PowerBook it replaced, while earlier in the year Apple boasted that the 17-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops featured displays 36 percent and 67 percent brighter than their predecessors, respectively—an improvement that arrived just three months after Apple updated its PowerBook G4 with displays "up to 47 percent brighter" than before. Apple's laptops have consistently sported the brightest displays on the market, an important consideration for customers using multimedia applications.

Sources expect that this trend will continue when the company upgrades its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks later this year. The improved display performance will arrive courtesy of a new generation of LCD that use light emitting diodes (LED) for the display's backlight, as opposed to the cold cathode fluorescent backlights (CCFL) that have long been used in LCD displays.

The benefits of LED backlights are numerous. Aside from the improved brightness, they boast lower power consumption and an even thinner profile than the already-slim CCFL backlights. For Apple, LED backlights enable the company to design even thinner laptops with longer battery life, another area in which Apple has traditionally excelled in compared to its competition. Precise real-world energy savings are hard to peg, but with a laptop's display consuming substantial power, benefits are expected to be noticeable.

At present, only two PC makers offer a laptop that features an LED-backlight display: Sony (a 13.3-inch model) and Fujitsu (an 11.1-inch model that has been available for more than a year in Japan). Virtually every other PC maker is expected to deliver at least one laptop with an LED-backlight display this year as LCD panel makers improve the technology and reduce prices.

The cost of manufacturing a 13.3-inch display with an LED backlight is currently twice that of building one with a CCFL backlight, sources say, and the price premium increases with display size because of the added difficulties of using LEDs with larger panels. Accordingly, it is likely the technology would find its way into the 13.3-inch MacBook or 15.4-inch MacBook Pro before it reaches the 17-inch MacBook Pro or Apple's iMac and Cinema Display product lines.

Sources say Apple already has systems in development with the displays, and that production could begin as soon as later this quarter or, more realistically, some time in the second quarter. Intel is expected to launch a faster Core 2 Duo processor in the second quarter, the 2.4GHz T7700, which might give Apple an added incentive to upgrade its laptops then. The Mac maker's high-end MacBook Pro currently features Intel's 2.33GHz T7600 processor, the fastest available Core 2 Duo chip in Intel's portfolio, and with laptop sales accounting for about 60 percent of Apple's computer sales, keeping its laptops fresh and at the top of the market is of utmost importance to the firm.

Nick DePlume and the ThinkSecret staff cover Apple, the Macintosh, and related software with a mixture of news and other inside information. Check them out at http://www.thinksecret.com.

percent at the current set of retail prices, iSuppli Corp. said in an analysis of presumed component and manufacturing costs.

The 4-gigabyte version of the iPhone, with a retail price of $499, will cost Apple $245.83 to make, iSuppli estimated. The 8-gigabyte version, priced at $599, will cost Apple $280.83.

"With a 50 percent gross margin, Apple is setting itself up for aggressive price declines going forward," said Jagdish Rebello, a director and principal analyst with iSuppli.

An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.

Since Apple will face stiff competition in the cell phone market, the company may need to cut into its margins to reduce pricing in the future, he said.

The Apple iPhone, which was announced by CEO
Steve Jobs last week, will be available starting in June exclusively through AT&T's Cingular Wireless. Apple has said it hopes to sell 10 million units in 2008, or about 1 percent of the market.

That goal "seems attainable," Rebello said.

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