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MTV teams up with Microsoft for music service

News After promising to launch a digital music service for several years, MTV said on Tuesday that it is close to releasing an online music shop that will throw it into competition with iTunes and Napster.

14 December 2005, 10:18 > More matches in News

Yahoo to launch new flagship music service

News Yahoo plans to launch an early version of a new flagship music service this week, in the hope of capturing some of the online music momentum now held by Apple Computer, sources familiar with the plans say.

11 May 2005, 8:47 > More matches in News

T-Mobile and EMI trial ad-funded music video service

News T-Mobile is working with record label EMI and Rhythm NewMedia on an advertising-supported mobile music video service being tested in the UK. The service, which is only in the trial phase, allows T-Mobile's mobile-phone users to watch entertainment...

12 September 2006, 9:40 > More matches in News

Microsoft planning music subscription service

News With Apple's dominance over the digital music business growing, Microsoft is planning to bolster its own online song store with a new subscription service later this year, sources familiar with the plans say.

10 June 2005, 10:26 > More matches in News

Yahoo expands its Music Unlimited service

News Yahoo's subscription-based music service is now widely available to consumers after a three-month trial run. A marketing campaign for the Yahoo music service is set to debut in conjunction with the MTV Video Music Awards on 28 August and will run...

19 August 2005, 9:20 > More matches in News

Amazon to launch digital music service

News Ecommerce giant Amazon appears to be preparing a digital music service to compete with Apple's iTunes at last, according to a job listing posted on a popular industry blog. The ad, posted on Paidcontent.org (and since removed), sought a "content...

5 August 2005, 9:46 > More matches in News

Samsung plans its own music service

News Aiming to better compete with Apple's iTunes and iPod, Samsung plans to announce on Friday that it will develop its own music service in conjunction with a new series of portable players that will debut later this year.

4 September 2006, 9:26 > More matches in News

News.blog: Sony BMG links with Nokia music service

News The concept behind Nokia's new music service 'Comes with Music' is starting to catch on with the major music labels. At the end of the year, Nokia users will have the choice of acquiring new music by either purchasing downloads from the Nokia Music...

Tags: labels, nokia, concept, music service

23 April 2008, 9:22 > More matches in News

Bono's (RED) charity to launch online music service

Crave The high-profile nonprofit organisation, which donates a chunk of profits to combat AIDS in Africa, will be launching a subscription music service this autumn. The as-yet-unnamed service will launch in September, according to The New York Times...

Tags: artists, initiative, africa, bono

30 June 2008, 16:24 > More matches in Crave

Amazon launches DRM-free music store

Crave As the name suggests, the new service offers its entire collection in the 256kbps MP3 format, sans copy protection. Amazon.com yesterday launched the public beta of its a la carte DRM-free music download store, Amazon MP3.

Tags: albums, labels, beta, store

26 September 2007, 8:37 > More matches in Crave

Oxfam joins music-download business

News With the long-awaited launch of Napster in the UK not even a week old and iTunes' promised European arrival getting closer, it seems everyone wants a slice of the music downloads market these days. The site will offer music fans 300,000 tracks from...

24 May 2004, 15:25 > More matches in News

Crave Podcast 79: Free music with your broadband

Crave First up, we discuss the Danish ISP that's bundling an unlimited music download service with its broadband offering. Scandinavian geeks who sign up to PLAY can leech millions of tracks from three of the world's four biggest music labels as often as...

Tags: crave, amazon, browse, identify

4 April 2008, 10:00 > More matches in Crave

Music industry to standardise digital data

News Each music service in turn reports the sales of specific digital music files to the publishing houses and content providers in their own format. In an effort to better track digital music sales, several big-name record companies, digital music...

5 May 2006, 8:30 > More matches in News

Music industry wants ISPs to stop pirates

News A spokesman for the Internet Service Provider's Association told CNET.co.uk's sister site silicon.com that disconnecting users is "not as easy as the IFPI might think" and proper legal procedures need to be in place before action is taken, to...

19 January 2007, 9:26 > More matches in News

Music moguls trumped by Steve Jobs?

News I think it's safe to say that Apple has generated so much interest in digital music downloads as a paid service, the labels clearly understand Apple's influence," Gartenberg said. When Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs walked into the suites of top...

21 April 2005, 19:17 > More matches in News