Monday, July 21, 2003

iTunes music store 'best news' music industry has had. Writing for RollingStone.com, Jenny Eliscu noted the painful downward trend in music sales for 2003 in a new article entitled Music Business in Misery. In fact, the iTunes Music Store may be the one bright spot in an otherwise dreary market. Eliscu called the RIAA's decision to go after illegal music file-swappers with individual lawsuits "not just a bad PR move, it was a signal that the music business is more desperate than ever." The industry has only seen three artists sell more than 2 million copies from January to June -- 50 Cent, Norah Jones and Linkin Park. [MacCentral] comment []11:39:57 PM

Years of software gloom ahead?. There are still too many companies selling too much software to too few people, a situation that will continue till 2007, according to Ovum. [CNET News.com] comment []11:35:56 PM

Real Basic to target Linux. Compilation support coming but no IDE for now [The Register] comment []6:19:23 PM

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