1.   The future of digital music is a bit murky.

2.   Time Warner has announced that it will open up a digital music download site developed in conjunction with RealNetworks.

3.   Also dipping its toe into the uncharted waters of digital music is CDNow.

4.   Although no launch date has been set, Napster plans to relaunch as a subscription digital music service that complies with US copyright law.

5.   An executive with one Silicon Valley company is now suggesting that DNA sequences be converted to digital music, arguing that they might then be protected under copyright law.

6.   And analysts say that by aligning with AOL, Warner Music could be more effective at selling its back catalog in the form of digital music files.

7.   And it prefigures the coming fights between musicians and record companies hoping to establish digital music services.

8.   And once they get online, digital music is going to cost you.

9.   And on the other end, the record business is slowly embracing the idea of digital music as more than a way to pirate good-sounding tunes.

10.   And Texas Instruments has assembled teams of engineers, each targeting an up-and-coming DSP market, such as digital music players, digital cameras, and Internet telephone products.