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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]
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]
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]
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 Connect (SonicStage)
Downloads Download the latest version of the Connect player and access the Connect music store, one of the world's largest music download stores. You can download your tunes to listen on your PC, then burn a CD to play in your car or home stereo.
[October 8, 2009, 7:18]
BTopenworld trials music subscription service
News BTopenworld is trialling a music subscription service that will allow subscribers on its broadband and narrowband services to download paid-for music over the Internet, but Linux users will be cut out of the loop.
[October 29, 2001, 15:18]
Ruckus Free Music Player
Downloads Ruckus is the free, ad-supported music & media download service built specifically for college students. To get started, download the Ruckus Music Player and sign up at the Web site by using your school-provided (.edu) e-mail address.
[February 9, 2008, 0:33]
EBay vetoes sale of iTunes download
News EBay on Thursday cancelled an auction that sought to resell a music download that was purchased through Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store, saying the attempted sale violated its listing policies. One extreme solution would be to hand over his...
[September 5, 2003, 12:50]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Windows song site debuts in UK
News A new pay-by-the-song music service is launching in Western Europe, putting an iTunes-like digital download store inside Microsoft's Windows Media Player. Consumers can now access a vast library of legitimate digital music, and download and keep...
[August 14, 2003, 9:15]
O2 announces music, gaming packages
News O2 announced details of a forthcoming mobile music download service on Tuesday at CeBIT -- one of a range of new data packages that the European mobile operator has in the pipeline. Once linked up, the gadget uses the handset to connect to O2's...
[March 11, 2003, 12:33]
