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Creative, and Samsung to help them produce MPX devices that will compete on industrial design, usability, functionality and features. These devices will be expected to be released this The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is an index Quarter. which statistically tracks the prices of a specified set or “market basket” of consumer goods and It’s nice to see Microsoft use its muscle to rock the services. This provides a measure of inflation and MPX boat. Weather or not it will work its a basic representation of cost-of-living. uncertain, but they will keep trying and they will keep throwing their billions at this project. Statistics Finland revised 22 percent of this market basket adding new items such as the MPX player [Bloomberg News] and taking out antiquated consumer technology Bridge Ratings recently did a study to see what such as the VCR, video cassette, and roll of film. effect MPX players are having on radio listenership among 12 – 18 year olds. Not Which MPX player was added? There was no surprisingly people who owned players have tuned single MPX player. The way the CPI calculates in less since they purchased their MPX players. the price for “the MPX player” is derived from a They also mention in an earlier study that listeners culmination of several different MPX players from are listening to a wider variety of music genres several different stores. forcing radio stations to change their programming. It will be interesting to see once music services like Yahoo! and Napster are more widespread there will be more of a loss in radio audience. Services like that are like creating your own customizable portable radio station and you are not forced to listen to the same top ten songs over and over day after day.
