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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...
[May 24, 2004, 16:25]
Liquid Audio starts Christian music download service
News Another service by RioPort allows people to download music on to MP3 players. Liquid Audio said its service, dubbed BurnItFirst.com, will carry a collection of songs from EMI CMG, a Christian music company that is a unit of EMI Music.
[April 29, 2002, 8:38]
Walmart.com Offers Easy, Inexpensive Music Purchase and Download
White Papers Walmart.com wanted to compete effectively in the downloaded online music business, and to match the functionality and user experience offered by its competitors. The new plug-in gives customers an easy, integrated online browsing, purchase...
[October 7, 2008, 0:00]
Yahoo! to offer music download sales
News EMusic will provide more than 22,000 MP3 tracks available at 99 cents per song or $8.99 (£5) per album. Liquid Audio said it would make its catalogue of more than 20,000 titles available through Yahoo as well.
[August 23, 1999, 13:31]
Apple readying music download service
News Apple is preparing an online music-buying service for Macintosh and iPod users and is close to winning many of the licences it needs from major record labels, sources familiar with the negotiations said.
[March 5, 2003, 10:36]
Teenager's Unprotected Computer Hijacked Via Music Download
White Papers Kathy Morris, a contractor for a major corporate training company who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, was glad there was a McAfee technician a quick phone call away one Saturday morning. Kathy had just logged onto the Internet using her daughter...
[June 16, 2007, 1:00]
Apple iTunes (Classic)
Downloads You can also download music to your portable MP3 player and burn your own music CDs with the click of a button. Apple's iTunes lets you create libraries of your favorite music that you can play on your computer or portable MP3 player.
[March 21, 2002, 23:43]
Tesco.com launches music service
News Supermarket giant Tesco is hoping to take a slice of Apple's pie with the launch of a new music download service. Tesco is already one of the largest music vendors in the UK and is making a move into the download space as part of its strategy to...
[November 8, 2004, 13:08]
Buy.com opens online music shop
News Buy.com on Tuesday launched a new digital music download service, hoping to reprise Apple's early success with its iTunes music store. Apple, by contrast, soared in the first weeks after the iTunes launch in April, in what was widely seen as the...
[July 22, 2003, 14:44]
Yahoo rethinks music downloads
News Yahoo, rethinking earlier plans, is quietly exploring ways to develop a music-download service as archrivals Microsoft and America Online place bigger bets on digital song sales. According to knowledgeable sources, Yahoo bought music-software...
[February 9, 2004, 7:50]
Gates hints at Microsoft version of iTunes
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said his company is exploring ways to develop a music download service similar to Apple Computer's iTunes that would tie into the software giant's multimedia applications.
[July 28, 2003, 12:02]
Spotify
Downloads Spotify is a new way to enjoy music. Because music is social, Spotify allows you to share songs and playlists with friends, and even work together on collaborative playlists, Friday afternoon in the office might never be the same again!
[October 29, 2009, 16:58]
UK gets tough on music swappers
Talkback If music was more reasonably priced when it first hit the shelves there might be less want to illegally download. If everyone were to download and pay nothing, the funding isn't there to create the music in the first place.
[March 16, 2005, 13:01]
Spanish site to offer all-you-can-eat music downloads
News A new all-you-can-eat music download service that claims to take advantage of a loophole in Spanish copyright law will launch on Tuesday and piggyback on a popular file-swapping network for distribution.
[May 20, 2003, 7:32]
Digital music a hit with kids
News Several companies were showing off devices that allowed kids to download music clips off the Internet and then carry them around or digitally morph them. Tiger will also be selling pre-recorded HitClips, featuring 60 seconds of music from Atlantic...
[February 15, 2000, 10:01]
Microsoft moves into music downloads
News Microsoft has at last confirmed plans that it will launch its own music-download shop next year, putting it on the path to direct competition with Apple Computer's iTunes and a growing list of rival digital song stores.
[November 18, 2003, 11:05]
EMI and Roxio team up in music CD burning deal
News UK music label EMI has teamed up with Roxio in a deal that will let consumers download music from the Internet onto CDs. According to reports, Roxio doesn't think the scheme will generate much revenue initially -- but in the long term it feels that...
[June 5, 2001, 13:00]
Sony unveils iPod-like player
News Sony Electronics will begin selling two hard-drive music players this fall which, combined with its new music download service, will create an iPod-like parallel universe. Both players will be available in autumn for use with the Sony Connect music...
[July 1, 2004, 8:45]
Microsoft sued over European music downloads
News A small New York company has sued Microsoft, charging that the software giant's new music download service in Europe infringes on a patent it owns that is nearly 20 years old. E-Data, a company that's focused largely on licensing its patents...
[October 14, 2003, 16:20]
Downloads soar despite crackdown
News Between February and March, the number of people who reported that they download music files increased to an estimated 23 million, compared with 18 million between November and December, according to a study released Sunday by the Pew Internet...
[April 27, 2004, 12:05]
