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There's a reason why a new crop of digital music players and services are hitting store shelves this holiday season, despite the dominant market position of Apple Computer's iPod. Consumers are fickle, analyst Rob Enderle said. On Tuesday, Microsoft will test that fickleness when it launches Zune, a US$250 gadget with a 30 GB hard drive and a large screen for watching video.

The New Crop of iPod Wannabes

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A strong summer movie season, including the hit Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest boosted per share earnings at The Walt Disney Co. 89 percent in the fourth quarter, the company reported Thursday. The media conglomerate also reported selling nearly a half million films over the Web through the Apple Computer iTunes store since September.

Box Office, iTunes Movie Sales Boost Disney Earnings

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Microsoft is probably the greenest company in all of high tech. Not green in the environmental sense, but green with envy. Microsoft is so jealous of the iPod's success that Tuesday it will introduce a new music system pocket player, with associated jukebox software and online music store, that is an unabashed copy of Apple's. It's called Zune.

Zune Exposes Microsoft's iPod Envy

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News Corp's president and chief operating officer revealed that News Corp, which owns Fox movie studio, is in positive talks with Apple regarding putting their movies on Apple's iTunes Store.

Fox Movies on iTunes