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HP Debuts Business-Class Smartphone

At the 3GSM conference in Barcelona, HP introduced a new model in its iPAQ line in a bid to compete in a corporate market largely dominated by Research In Motion and Palm.The HP iPAQ 500 Voice Messenger features VoIP capabilities, push e-mail, and the latest Windows Mobile 6 operating system. HP said it hopes the device, which follows the general mobile industry trend toward more consumer-friendly smartphones, will boost its market share.

HP held a mere 1 percent of the smartphone market in 2006, according to research firm IDC, with phones that offered full Qwerty keyboards. The new slimmer, 12-key model looks more like the designs business consumers are already opting for with BlackBerries and Treos.

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Will the Record Industry Ditch the DRM?

Apple CEO Steve Jobs sparked an industry debate with a controversial suggestion to remove copy-protection technologies on digital music. Jobs posed his notion to nix digital rights management, or DRM, in an open letter to record labels last week, but so far the responses have been mixed.Warner Music has come out against the proposal, which would allow consumers to purchase digital music downloads without DRM. In an earnings conference call late last week, Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman said the idea was “completely without merit.”

EMI, the third-largest record company in the world, however, has reportedly been pondering the idea of offering unrestricted downloads in an industry whose revenues are still dominated by traditional CD sales.

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