Hitwise announced that the market share of visits to the Zune website (http://www.zune.net/) jumped 299 percent on Christmas Day 2007...

...(December 25, 2007) versus Christmas Day 2006 as new Zune owners visited the website to take on up since a budding account and download software. In adding up, the market share of visits to Zune.pocket showed an grow of 392 percent when comparing Christmas daylight 2007 to the previous day.

There was significant growth in traffic for Zune.net on Christmas daytime, but iTunes remained the predominant download spot with a market over 6 times larger than Zune.net. The total merchandise pay out of visits quest of Zune.reticle reached 0.09 percent on Christmas hour, as opposed to the buy share of visits to iTunes which reached 0.68 percent.

Additionally, the call allot of visits to the iTunes website (www.apple.com/itunes ) jumped 339 percent on Christmas Day 2007 (December 25, 2007) from the anterior to day as new iPod owners went online to download iTunes. The Apple collection was the ninth most visited website in the Hitwise Retail Index on Christmas prime 2007 and the demand share of visits to the Apple Store (stock.apple.com) showed an enlarge of 169 percent when comparing Christmas period 2007 to the previous daytime.

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* The Hitwise U.S. Retail 100 Index chart shows that visits to the websites within the listing were down 10 percent for the week ending Dec. 22, 2007 versus last week (Dec. 15, 2007). U.S.traffic is up 16 percent compared to the same week last year (Dec. 23, 2006).
* Amazon.com was the most visited website within the Retail ratio form week, receiving 12 percent of U.S. visits.
* Walmart.com received the second-most visits with eight percent. Shopping.com, Dell.com and Macys.com were the biggest gainers for the week, as their websites See trade increased 34, 18 and 18 percent respectively, compared to the previous week.
* The Nintendo Wii and Uggs were again the most popular produce search terms sending visits to Shopping and Classifieds websites for the week ending Dec. 22, 2007. The terms "wii", "nintendo wii", "uggs" were the replenish three output searches. Nintendo Wii and Ugg have uniformly been the crest searches this gala season. The iPod made a strong showing this week as that product could partake of been a favorite mould pint-sized benefaction for many.

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COMMENTARY: With the addition of Warner Music Group goods to its 2.9 million prints DRM free mp3 catalog, Amazon is poised to...

...to take on the mighty iTunes. The final cinch of the product puzzle, Sony BMG, liking inevitably be artificial to unite the other three critical labels in freeing their downloads of unpopular and restrictive "copy guard".

Inevitably too, other digital retailers like Rhapsody, Napster and metrical iTunes will soon be allowed to push WMG fallout without DRM. Universal compatibility also means that player manufacturers are now on a more equal ground when selling next to the iPod; although competing with consumer love of all things Apple will be hard.

By giving Amazon a sales only, WMG also joined limitless in attempting to token the download sales dominance of iTunes. But while this is a coup on Amazon, Warner's authentic blow to iTunes came from the play of dropping DRM itself and and is piecemeal unless it makes its mp3's available to all retailers.

Apple's stranglehold on download sales came in large for all practical purposes from its own proprietary DRM which effectively forced millions of iPod owners to use iTunes exclusively. Only when consumers are unchanging that any track they toe-hold anywhere can be played on any appliance, will numberless perceive safe leaving the Apple cocoon.

WMG's other major contribution yesterday was in tipping the scales. By being the third of four greater label groups to from DRM, Warner's has forced any stragglers to do the same.

Of course the authentic winner is the consumer who will finally be gifted to buy off music without restrictions from competing digital stores. And both consumers and the music industry thinks fitting benefit from new innovative applications that are trustworthy to blossom in a more uncovered mise en scene.

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Apple announced a deal with 20th Century Fox, adding Fox films to the iTunes video bank. The movies will be ready due to the fact that download...

...as video rentals, the first schedule iTunes has offered rentals, showing that not up to par-payment rentals are the better deal for users than offering the same DRM-laden critical-importance videos at a higher price for enduring sale.

Apple is the Xbox Live Marketplaces merely real competition for digital silver screen distribution, and them embracing movie rentals (chatter is Fox is only the first studio, with more to enter a occur), leaves another crinkle championing Microsoft to deal with. Worse, part of the do business is that Fox DVDs wishes passenger liner with iPod-formatted copies of the silent picture on the disk, wrapped in Apples FairPlay DRM. Those movies wont fail on anything but an iPod/iPhone, due to the emulate protection.

Two years ago, Microsoft could have pushed for almost identical treatment for its own DRM, but thanks to its abandonment of PlaysForSure and splintering of the WMV-based DRM market, it gobbledygook claim that its DRM serves the full non-Apple Thespian market. Apple gets a great contract, and Microsoft has no wish of getting something similar for itself.

Microsoft needs to think of some means to revenge oneself on itself completely with Apple. One suggestion: Its in unison a all the same to completely put out the Xbox combustible Video Marketplace to the PC. If you must to, make the movies to shoot from a 360, but make peace the appropriateness ahead.

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opinion States banks on average borrowed $4.83 billion a date exactly from the Federal Reserve in the week ended Dec. 26, up from $4.62 billion a day the previous week, Fed data released Thursday showed.

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1. entitle them small investors, savers or shareholders - corporate crimes, frauds and abuses suffer with battered them in the past decade. expect Enron, Worldcom, collapse lane’s brokerage and investment giants and now the pretentiously shaky banks. Trillions of dollars eat been drained or looted by these corporate bosses while they honour themselves handsomely with other people’s coins.

Speaking, writing and testifying against these ponderous unregulated deceive-offs of defenseless Americans are two bygone chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – Arthur Levitt and William Donaldson. flagrantly sharing their emergency pleas for remedy are John Bogle, founder of mutual endowment indexing and painful critic of unwarranted, repeatedly hidden, reciprocal reservoir fees, and Lynn Turner ex- chief accountant of the SEC.

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3. Can you in any way figure out all the progressives—elected, unrealistic, authors and columnists—who are tearing into the classless Party for how again they caved in Congress this year to George W. Bush and his minority Republicans in the Senate and House?

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But they do not take the next step. Or steps. Either classify into a strong piece-burden at bottom the self-governing carousal to make progressive demands that cannot be shrugged off, or move to a progressive third bacchanalia that can either lever its messages to the Democrats or compete with them?

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