snapshot 3/20/08

Borders explores sale, suspends dividend
Book retailer Borders Group Inc (BGP.N) on Thursday suspended its quarterly dividend and said it was reviewing strategic options, including the sale of some or all of its businesses, and its shares sank more than 30 percent to a new year low.


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Inside Rock Band's New In-Game Music Store
An in-game music store will be added to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Rock Band with Thursday's big title update, Harmonix said. The store will free players from having to scroll through the clunky interfaces of the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace, and allow them to more easily find what they're looking for and preview tracks before buying them.


Sabotage: Safari bundled with WiniTunes
If you’ve downloaded iTunes for Windows, you might get a window encouraging you to download a software update — really the entire package — for the latest version of Safari. This seems a bit disingenuous and smacks of bundling and the only thing I can imagine is that iTunes needs some sort of Safari DLLs to visit the iTunes store. That, however, is fairly bogus because why not just offer a patch.


Nokia's "Comes With Music" now comes with EMI
EMI is looking to become the second major label to provide music to Nokia's unlimited subscription download service called "Comes With Music." Announced last December, Comes With Music would give owners of compatible Nokia handsets access to unlimited music downloads for one year. Universal was the first label to sign up at the time of Nokia's announcement, and EMI will be another welcome ally in the industry's renewed movement towards music subscription models.