iTunes music phone set to launch
SAN FRANCISCO -- A long-delayed cell phone from Apple Computer Inc. and Motorola Inc. that can play iTunes music downloads is finally set to debut through Cingular Wireless, a research analyst said.
The new phone will be equipped with software that would allow it to play songs purchased at Apple's iTunes Web site, according to Roger Entner, an analyst for research firm Ovum.
Representatives from Apple, Cingular and Schaumburg, Ill.-based Motorola declined to comment, but the three companies are expected to roll out the device at an event this week.
It was unclear whether the new phone will allow users to download music directly over a cellular Internet connection or if they would have to download songs to a computer and then transfer them to the handset.
Entrepeneurship researcher joins Kelley faculty
One of the nation's leaders in entrepreneurship research, Dean A. Shephard, has joined the IU Kelley School of Business faculty as a Dean's Research Fellow and associate professor of management.
He will teach venture strategies and venture screening courses in the master of business administration program, and he will also direct doctoral and MBA students studying entrepreneurship.
His research, which has been published in several books and leading business journals involves decision-making by entrepreneurs, new venture strategy, venture capital, growth and optimization. Shephard serves on the editorial boards of all major entrepreneurship journals.
Shephard is a native of Australia, and he came to IU from the University of Colorado-Boulder's Leeds School of Business. He earned his MBA degree and doctorate from Bond University in Australia and a bachelor of applied science degree from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Life sciences entrepeneurs gain project support
Bloomington entrepreneurs will audition some of their best life sciences ideas before a national group of venture capitalists tomorrow at the Indiana Future Fund Entrepreneurial Forum.
The event, hosted by BioCrossroads, IUB and the IU Foundation, will be held from 1:30 to 4 p.m. in the Showers Buidling, 401 N. Morton St., room 200.
Representatives of the Indiana METACyt Initiative, the School of Informatics, Pervasive Technology Labs, the IU Cyclotron Facility, the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute, Predictive Physiology and Medicine Inc. and Cook Biotech Inc. will describe their latest work to potential investors to garner support for their most promising projects.
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