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In a rare open letter from CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday, Apple urged record companies to abandon digital rights management technologies.

It took Microsoft quite a while to get going in the phone business, but Robbie Bach is convinced the software maker has made the right call.

Thanks to the Internet, high-speed mobile broadband technology and new devices like Microsoft's Zune and Apple's video iPod, people are no longer tied to their televisions.

Microsoft is planning to issue a firmware update next month designed to fix a glitch that is causing some owners of the Zune music player to experience skipping when playing songs purchased from Microsoft's online store.

Google's narrow view of the protections that copyright law offers creators has famously made enemies of book publishers, news organizations and professional photographers over the last few years.