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By Times Staff Writer
Published September 26, 2007

Luxury living, Donald's way, in glossy pages

Not sure how to decorate your Gulfstream? Wondering which continent to golf on next? Then Donald Trump has a magazine for you. The Ocean Drive Media Group, which publishes more than a dozen small magazines for wealthy readers, and Trump announced plans Tuesday to introduce a magazine devoted to ways to spend a great deal of money. In keeping with the usual modesty of America's favorite real estate baron/author/radio host/reality show boss, the title will be Trump magazine. The magazine, to be published quarterly, will have an initial run of 100,000 copies. While it will be distributed free in Trump properties, it will be sold for $5.95 in airports, book stores and newsstands in a handful of cities where his buildings are concentrated.

Copying okay from Amazon music site

Web retailer Amazon.com Inc. launched its much-anticipated digital music store Tuesday with nearly 2.3-million songs, none of them protected against copying. The store, Amazon MP3, lets shoppers buy and download individual songs or entire albums. The tracks can be copied to multiple computers, burned onto CDs and played on most PCs and portable devices, including Apple Inc.'s iPod and Microsoft Corp.'s Zune. Songs cost 89 cents to 99 cents each and albums sell for $5.99 to $9.99. Major music labels Universal Music Group and EMI Music Publishing have signed on to sell their tracks on Amazon, as have thousands of independent labels.

China on Ford's map for prototype

Ford Motor Co. may produce a compact car based on its Verve prototype at its new Nanjing factory in eastern China to attract first-time buyers. "You can imagine that being a possibility," Ford chief executive Alan Mulally said. The Verve Concept, above, unveiled two weeks ago at the Frankfurt Motor Show, is smaller than Ford's Focus compact car. A new small car would support the carmaker's strategy of using fuel-efficient compact cars to attract customers in the world's second-largest vehicle market.

Microsoft Office for Mac in 3 prices

Microsoft Corp. said it will release three versions of its Office 2008 for Mac suite in January, with the most expensive of the bunch aimed at creative professionals overwhelmed by the task of organizing their digital media files. Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition, which includes three licenses for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, an e-mail/calendar/contacts program, will cost $150, Microsoft said. A $400 version aimed at professionals who use Apple Inc. computers, simply called Office 2008 for Mac, includes the same programs as Home and Student, plus the ability to connect to a Windows Exchange server. A third version, the $500 Special Media Edition, adds features to the $400 configuration, including Expression Media, a program that helps computer users organize and manipulate digital photos, video and other files.

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