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At the Digital Hollywood conference, where entertainment industry representatives are meeting to discuss technology and trends in digital content delivery, David Hughes of the RIAA made bold ...
Date: 8 May 2008 19:05 | 24 comments
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At the end of January a service called Qtrax had what may have been the most controversial launch to date for an online music service. Qtrax promised 25 million free and legal downloads, leading ...
Date: 7 May 2008 03:05 | 2 comments
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If the indie music collective group Merlin has its way, then smaller music labels could be getting better deals for their content on iTunes and other legal online music stores in the near future.
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Date: 5 May 2008 22:05 | 2 comments
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Nine Inch Nails has released a new album called The Slip under creative commons license and it is completely free to download. The group encourages everyone to "remix it, share it with your ...
Date: 5 May 2008 10:05 | 7 comments
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It's no great surprise that video game retailers are very happy with the release of GTA IV, the latest installment of Rockstar Games' wildly successful Grand Theft Auto series. What is a little ...
Date: 5 May 2008 05:05 | 14 comments
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Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke has confirmed in an interview that they will no longer be offering any of its albums on a "pay-as-you-please" purchase model, and that "In Rainbows" was a one time deal.
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Date: 3 May 2008 22:05 | 11 comments
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In a recent court ruling, songwriters could be owed upwards of $100 million in recovering costs for online performances. A court ruled that songwriters should in fact be paid more for their ...
Date: 1 May 2008 18:05 | 1 comment
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Nokia's hyped all-you-can-eat music service, Comes with the Music, has backfired in a devastating manner. Comes with the Music was launched as a service that would allow new mobile phone buyers ...
Date: 29 Apr 2008 14:04 | 4 comments
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WE7.com has launched, and with it comes 500,000 free, ad-supported tracks from Sony BMG and a variety of independent artists.
As the company says, the site is a way for consumers to get ...
Date: 28 Apr 2008 22:04 | 4 comments
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Nokia has announced a deal with Sony BMG, the world's second largest music label, to participate in their "Comes With Music" program, which is now expected to launch some time in the second ...
Date: 22 Apr 2008 13:04
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Nokia is set to launch Australia's first subscription music service tomorrow in an effort to use its huge music industry clout to knock Apples' iTunes platform from the top.
The service ...
Date: 21 Apr 2008 17:04 | 4 comments
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Yet another new, innovative Internet music service has arrived. PluggedIn has launched with 10,000 free high-def music videos from studios such as Sony BMG and EMI. The service was launched ...
Date: 17 Apr 2008 00:04 | 2 comments
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According to a new analysis by The NPD Group, Amazon's MP3 store is having little to no effect on the flourishing success of the iTunes store.
The study revealed that only a measly 10 percent ...
Date: 15 Apr 2008 21:04 | 19 comments
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In January, Last.FM began offering music streaming on-demand instead of by simple genre or keyword searches. Three times a day users can listen to a track of their choosing regardless of artist or genre.
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Date: 13 Apr 2008 22:04 | 7 comments
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Imeem (legally "imeem") has announced the acquisition of SNOCAP for an undisclosed amount to the press today. The leading social media networking site made the strategic acquisition of SNOCAP ...
Date: 7 Apr 2008 23:04
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Chinese Internet company Baidu may be forced by a Chinese court to damages claims totaling US$9 million to three record companies. The claim is the tip of the iceberg in a copyright infringement ...
Date: 7 Apr 2008 11:04 | 1 comment
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In the growing market for digital music downloads and related services, the companies who can provide the tech have to pay huge sums of cash to get label support. In the last year we have seen ...
Date: 6 Apr 2008 01:04 | 7 comments
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The world's largest video-sharing website, YouTube, has teamed up with The Rolling Stones to launch a new entertainment channel for fans. A statement from Universal Music Group and the band ...
Date: 4 Apr 2008 23:04 | 1 comment
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Online social-networking giant MySpace has announced MySpace Music, a joint venture with Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group. that will go head to head ...
Date: 4 Apr 2008 23:04 | 2 comments
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Radiohead is once again reaching out to fans on the Internet after using it to make the band's latest album "In Rainbows" a chart-topping success. Last year, Radiohead released the album for ...
Date: 2 Apr 2008 22:04 | 3 comments
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EMI Music has appointed the chief information officer from Google and one of its most senior global executives, Douglas Merrill, to lead its growing digital music business. Merrill will head ...
Date: 2 Apr 2008 22:04 | 1 comment
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Denmark's biggest ISP, TDC, is to offer a music download service along with its Internet broadband packages. The songs which can be downloaded by customers are restricted by Digital Rights Management ...
Date: 2 Apr 2008 04:04 | 2 comments
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Although they closed down the service last June, it seems that Sony BMG is looking to resurrect its Connect music service.
Sony CEO Rolf Schmidt-Holtz has confirmed the launch of what users ...
Date: 29 Mar 2008 21:03 | 20 comments
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Cox Communications has announced that they will be partnering with Rhapsody music service to create Cox Rhapsody, a service giving Cox High Speed Internet customers the ability to access and ...
Date: 28 Mar 2008 17:03 | 5 comments
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Earlier this year I was forced to find a replacement for Windows Media Center in order to use the latest version of Windows Media Player to support the Netflix Streaming service's DRM. After ...
Date: 26 Mar 2008 17:03
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After launching a music service six months ago that only offers digital audio downloads without Digital Rights Management (DRM), Amazon has taken the No. 2 spot in sales after Apple Inc.'s iTunes. ...
Date: 26 Mar 2008 12:03 | 9 comments
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Starz has announced it is now offering its TV series on Apple's iTunes platform, marking the second time a premium network has offered its programming on the platform.
Marc DeBevoise, Senior ...
Date: 25 Mar 2008 22:03
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According to Sony BMG Chief Executive Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, the music giant is currently developing a music download service that would offer unlimited access to the company's catalog on a subscription ...
Date: 25 Mar 2008 21:03 | 3 comments
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In an effort to give back to loyal customers, Apple has said that they will be offering credits or refunds to those with Season Passes to the iTunes Store that were affected by the Writer's ...
Date: 23 Mar 2008 21:03 | 2 comments
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Yesterday we reported that the Financial Times was claiming that there was talk of an unlimited subscription to the iTunes Store in the works and that the only catch would be a premium on the ...
Date: 20 Mar 2008 19:03 | 4 comments
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According to Financial Times Apple is in talks with big music companies to use a completely new business model for iTunes. The kind of "all you can eat" model would give premium iPod or iPhone ...
Date: 19 Mar 2008 09:03 | 9 comments
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Channel 4 has announced they will be making content available through Apple's iTunes platform. The announcement comes just a month after the BBC made a similar decision.
The popular C4 shows ...
Date: 18 Mar 2008 21:03 | 3 comments
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Despite widespread rumors to the contrary, Apple has denied all claims that the Beatles catalog is set to be made available through the company's iTunes platform. A spokesman even called the ...
Date: 15 Mar 2008 22:03 | 3 comments
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At a panel discussion called 'Mobility, Ubiquity and Monetizing Music,' which will be held tomorrow at the SXSW (South By Southwest) Music And Media Conference in Austin Texas, the focus is ...
Date: 13 Mar 2008 20:03 | 22 comments
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According to the Financial Times, online social-networking site Facebook has approached the world's largest record companies about the possibility of opening a music download service. The report ...
Date: 6 Mar 2008 23:03
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7Digital.com is the first online music retailer to offer customers in the U.K., Ireland, Spain, France, and Germany DRM-free songs from Warner Music. Previously Warner's only deal for the DRM-free ...
Date: 5 Mar 2008 06:03 | 4 comments
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Trent Reznor, who last year was involved in an experiment to distribute an album he produced for Saul Williams by giving downloaders the option to either pay nothing for MP3s or $5 for CD quality ...
Date: 4 Mar 2008 08:03 | 16 comments
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While there are some people opposed to RIAA royalty collection tactics and others who take the labels' side, one thing both sides generally agree on is the importance of paying artists. That ...
Date: 3 Mar 2008 04:03 | 24 comments
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According to data from the NPD Group, after last year's increase in legal online music sales iTunes has become the number two music retailer in the country. During 2007 only Wal-Mart outperformed ...
Date: 27 Feb 2008 04:02 | 8 comments
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The Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC) have revealed a new proposal that would allow all Canadian citizens to download as much unauthorized music as they please for the low, flat-rate of ...
Date: 24 Feb 2008 23:02 | 33 comments
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In what seems to be a concentrated effort to jump start its new movie rental business Apple will be offering 99 cent rentals on iTunes once per week on a new movie.
The rental will be available ...
Date: 23 Feb 2008 23:02 | 4 comments
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San Francisco based doubleTwist launched a new service today for transferring digital media between a variety of devices, including computers, portable media players, and mobile phones. The ...
Date: 20 Feb 2008 04:02 | 3 comments
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BBC Worldwide has announced it has struck a deal with Apple that will allow users in the UK to download a few top BBC shows from the popular iTunes platform.
Each show will cost 1.89 pounds ...
Date: 19 Feb 2008 19:02 | 1 comment
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Anyone who read the IFPI's annual report on the state of the music industry when it was released in January would have already been aware that their stated goal for this year was to hold ISPs ...
Date: 19 Feb 2008 05:02 | 3 comments
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Motorola has announced that it will be completing its previously announced acquisition of Soundbuzz, the Singapore-based provider of digital music downloads. In fact, Soundbuzz is the leading ...
Date: 18 Feb 2008 22:02 | 2 comments
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The Super Bowl is perhaps the best known advertising spectacle in the world, but it's not just advertisers who can benefit from increased sales after the big game. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ...
Date: 17 Feb 2008 03:02 | 7 comments
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Google has announced plans to enter the Chinese online music market for the first time by joining up with the popular Top100.cn, which allows users "to listen to and download licensed music ...
Date: 14 Feb 2008 20:02 | 2 comments
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In a 80 page filing with the FCC, Comcast attempted to explain why there's nothing wrong with the "network management" practices that spurred a number of complaints to agency regulators. The ...
Date: 14 Feb 2008 04:02 | 18 comments
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The decently popular website Play.com has begun offering high quality, DRM-free MP3 music downloads for the relatively low price of 65p in the UK, and the company says it will start with about ...
Date: 13 Feb 2008 23:02 | 4 comments
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On February 26 the FCC will hold and open hearing at Harvard Law School where commissioners "will hear from expert panelists regarding broadband network management practices," according to an ...
Date: 13 Feb 2008 02:02 | 11 comments
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It appears like British officials are looking to follow French President Nicolas Sarkozy's lead and consider putting illegal downloaders on warning with a "three strikes" law. The proposed law ...
Date: 12 Feb 2008 06:02 | 54 comments
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The star hip-hop producer Timbaland has announced that he has made a deal with Verizon Wireless to produce the first ever "mobile album" which will be exclusively available on V Cast.
For ...
Date: 10 Feb 2008 23:02 | 15 comments
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Yesterday, the subscription-based online music retailer Napster announced that thanks to a 15 percent jump in revenue from subscriptions the company has posted a much smaller Q3 loss for 2007 ...
Date: 7 Feb 2008 20:02 | 6 comments
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According to many music label executives, manufacturers of portable music players should be paying them a cut of profits since their sales are predicated on the availability of recorded music. ...
Date: 6 Feb 2008 05:02 | 5 comments
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Yahoo has announced that it is selling its digital music subscription service to Rhapsody America in an effort to revamp its struggling music strategy.
Yahoo Music will still offer its music ...
Date: 4 Feb 2008 23:02 | 8 comments
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U2 manager Paul McGuinness recently made a big impression at the MIDEM music industry convention in Cannes by calling out everyone from ISPs to customers. Sounding much like he was reading talking ...
Date: 31 Jan 2008 04:01 | 40 comments
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Amid all the hype at the MIDEM music trade show in France around Qtrax's announcement of the free music service that wasn't, a more important story is emerging with the presentation by Jean ...
Date: 29 Jan 2008 07:01 | 16 comments
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Several hours after their announced launch, and even a few hours after an Afterdawn member posted a link to the much anticipated client software, Qtrax now officially has a download link on ...
Date: 29 Jan 2008 03:01 | 25 comments
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It's two hours after the official Qtrax launch time and there's still no sign of a client for download. Since the story of the new P2P based, ad-supported online music service became hot news ...
Date: 28 Jan 2008 07:01 | 18 comments
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Amazon has announced that in 2008 the company will begin to expand Amazon MP3, its popular DRM-free digital music store to the international stage. The service, which is seen as a strong competitor ...
Date: 27 Jan 2008 23:01 | 3 comments
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A new free music download service is getting ready to launch. A P2P-based service called Qtrax is supposed to be going live today, offering 100% ad-supported music downloads, and apparently ...
Date: 27 Jan 2008 07:01 | 11 comments
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The past eight years has been a struggle between the music industry and P2P downloads. Since Napster launched in 1999 and brought the peer-to-peer downloads to the mainstream, the International ...
Date: 25 Jan 2008 10:01 | 20 comments
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According to the IFPI's annual report on the music industry, released today, it was innovative labels, rather than frustrated consumers or knowledgable online store management who came up with ...
Date: 25 Jan 2008 04:01 | 5 comments
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Yahoo is reportedly working on a plan to launch a MP3 download service some time this year. The company is apparently engaged in preliminary talks with the major music labels, but still hasn't ...
Date: 25 Jan 2008 01:01 | 1 comment
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After months of an uncomfortable stalemate between the two giant companies, it seems that Apple and NBC may be making up and an iTunes reunion could be in the works.
A few months ago NBC ...
Date: 23 Jan 2008 23:01 | 3 comments
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Despite increased sales and an increased profit margin over the year before, Apple's stock ended the day down more than 3% on Tuesday after the company reported both earnings for the last three ...
Date: 23 Jan 2008 22:01 | 3 comments
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Touting its newest service as the world's largest free music service, Last.fm has signed deals with record labels to pay royalties towards their catalogs of music. The four big labels have all ...
Date: 23 Jan 2008 20:01 | 5 comments
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The EU has ended their investigation of Apple over iTunes pricing in the UK after the company agreed to charge standard prices across all EU countries. At the same time, Apple is also planning ...
Date: 10 Jan 2008 02:01 | 1 comment
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Although they have not made an official announcement yet, Apple has quietly dropped the price of their DRM-free iTunes Plus tracks from $1.29 USD to 99 cents.
The new price is equal to that ...
Date: 16 Oct 2007 21:10 | 5 comments
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According to a report in the online edition of BusinessWeek, unnamed music industry insiders claim Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris is working on a new music licensing model that would ...
Date: 12 Oct 2007 13:10 | 12 comments
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British rock band Radiohead has joined the ranks of such bands as The Beatles in denying Apple's iTunes the sell of their new album entitled "In Rainbows". Instead, the band has decided to let ...
Date: 1 Oct 2007 14:10 | 18 comments
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Jean-Bernard Levy, chairman of Universal Music Group parent company Vivendi commented on UMG's very public feud with Apple over iTunes pricing, saying "The split between Apple and (music) producers ...
Date: 26 Sep 2007 09:09 | 4 comments
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This morning Starbucks announced that it plans to give away up to 50 million songs from iTunes as part of a large promotion aimed to bring interest to its new wireless music service that is starting soon.
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Date: 24 Sep 2007 21:09 | 2 comments
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Viacom and RealNetworks are hoping to take a bite out of Apple's successful iTunes service with a joint venture announced Tuesday.
MTV's Urge music service will be merged into RealNetworks' ...
Date: 21 Aug 2007 19:08 | 6 comments
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Although the Beatles' digital catalogue wont be hitting iTunes until next year, Apple announced that they had made the solo works of John Lennon available on the iTunes platform.
16 tracks ...
Date: 14 Aug 2007 18:08 | 5 comments
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Universal Music Group plans to sell DRM free music appear to include marketing a new online music store called gBox.
Under the program, gBox will get referrals through ads Universal will ...
Date: 12 Aug 2007 14:08 | 6 comments
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Universal Music Group's plans for DRM free downloads apparently don't include iTunes. The downloads will be offered through Rhapsody as well as digital download stores run by Wal-Mart, Best ...
Date: 11 Aug 2007 10:08 | 6 comments
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Apple Inc.'s iTunes download store has sold over 3 billion legal music downloads since the service first launched in April 2003. This latest milestones comes six months after Apple announced ...
Date: 31 Jul 2007 15:07 | 5 comments
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Although Apple denied the rumors, Universal confirmed that they were indeed looking to end its long term contract with iTunes and instead were looking for an "at will" contract.
Although ...
Date: 5 Jul 2007 18:07 | 5 comments
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Universal Music Group (UMG) is reportedly seeking to abandon year long+ agreements with Apple Inc.'s iTunes multimedia download store. Instead, the world's largest record company is seeking ...
Date: 2 Jul 2007 22:07 | 6 comments
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According to data from a new NPD Group report, Apple's iTunes has surpassed Amazon and Target to become the third largest music retailer for music sales over the first quarter of this year. ...
Date: 22 Jun 2007 19:06 | 7 comments
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In a joint announcement, Yahoo Japan and Apple have said that Yahoo has replaced a Sony-affiliated music download service with the iTunes platform as the default music store on Yahoo Music Japan.
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Date: 16 Jun 2007 16:06 | 4 comments
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According to Olivia Harrison, the widow of Beatle's member George Harrison, the Beatles music catalogue may be coming to iTunes and other legal music download service by early 2008.
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Date: 2 Jun 2007 23:06 | 15 comments
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We already reported that Apple Inc.'s iTunes is now selling DRM-less versions of EMI's catalog of music (and briefly mentioned the subject at hand). However, there is a slight difference between ...
Date: 31 May 2007 23:05 | 9 comments
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After announcing last month that they would be launching EMI's full catalogue DRM-free on their iTunes platform, Apple finally announced that they had made good on their promise and iTunes Plus ...
Date: 30 May 2007 17:05 | 12 comments
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According to French sources familiar with the negotiations, Apple is preparing to launch EMI's DRM-free catalogue later this week on its iTunes platform.
The sources said the delay was due ...
Date: 27 May 2007 15:05 | 5 comments
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In a large announcement yesterday, Apple and Coke have said they will be teaming up in Europe to offer one of, if not the largest music promotions in the continent's history.
Starting later ...
Date: 17 May 2007 16:05 | 7 comments
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