Tag archive: BusinessWeek

After letting word slip last month that it would return to manufacturing MP3 players, Dell has revealed more about its planned line of PMPs in a BusinessWeek article published on Thursday. According to the magazine, Dell will attempt to topple Apple by rallying its biggest competitors to build a more flexible system for music distribution than iTunes. The company has rested its hopes on Zing, a software company it snapped up in a year ago… Read More

“Since the Razr V3 hit store shelves in November, Motorola has shipped an estimated 750,000 of the $500 phones — three times more than Zander initially expected. And BusinessWeek has learned that the company is hard at work on a whole family of Razr-like phones in various shapes and colors — including the Sliver, a candy-bar-shaped Razr — to be announced later this year. “ Read more at BusinessWeek

Rio's vice-president for marketing, Dan Torres, recently spoke with BusinessWeek Online reporter Amy Tsao about his company's plans to catch the competition. Some of the questions Dan answers include: Q: How are you competing with Apple's iPod? Q: What about Dell (DELL ) and Microsoft? Q: What will happen to the market if Apple comes out with a flash-memory-based player? Q: Is consolidation coming among makers of… Read More