Apple’s iTunes continues to be the largest music retailer in the United States. But when you’re on top, everyone wants to take you down — this is especially true in the cutthroat world of the music industry. ITunes finds itself under attack from all sides. Amazon.com’s MP3 store is beginning to gain ground and market share, though it continues to lag way behind iTunes overall in music downloads. Amazon’s big advantage is that they sell only “unprotected” MP3s, which used no digital rights management technology.
Pressure Mounts on iTunes to Sell DRM-Free MP3s
The Next-Gen Format War: the Aftermath
When Toshiba itself more or less conceded in the ensuing battle which has gone on for far too long, the fate of Blu-ray has been sealed as this generation’s VHS. HD-DVDs backers dwindled in the face of the marketing juggernaut that is Sony. But you can’t fault Toshiba for trying either; neither of the two companies made a strategic blunder during the campaign, and both sides had a solid following in all the concerned sectors – in the end, it all came down to support.
Solar Power - Pros and Cons
With the depletion of the finite natural resources that the world relies on like coal and fossil fuel, alternative sources of energy are being sought out throughout the whole world in preparation for the day that we no longer have natural resources to use.
Biofuels: Why All the Hype?
There are actually a number of appellations regarding this energy source. In some parts of the world, biofuels are known as bioenergy. In others, the appellations range anywhere from agro-fuel to agri-fuel; to more definitive labels such as: bioalcohol, biobutanol, biodiesel, biogas, bioheat, biohyrdrogen, bio-oil, biomass, green crude, and a host of others.
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