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A Year Ago: Microsoft and Sony do online music deal
News Sony's Sony Music, using technology developed by Microsoft, plans to begin selling new hit "virtual singles" over the Internet at the same time the songs are available in record stores. The Internet singles will be available this summer and are...
[May 12, 2000, 7:01]
Microsoft and Sony do online music deal
News The Internet singles will be available this summer and are expected to cost about $3.49 (£2) a piece, the same price as in stores. Sony Music is now starting the business of digital distribution," said Fred Ehrlich, a senior vice president of Sony...
[May 12, 1999, 16:38]
Buy.com opens online music shop
News Much as iTunes helped drive sales of Apple's music players, Buy.com hopes to direct users of its service to its online stores. Buy.com on Tuesday launched a new digital music download service, hoping to reprise Apple's early success with its iTunes...
[July 22, 2003, 14:44]
ITunes music sharing app goes online
News However, he noted that with iCommune there is no central server that stores the locations of available music, and that the software is open-source, making it difficult to stop the software from proliferating.
[April 16, 2003, 7:29]
Windows song site debuts in UK
News These new services represent the second generation of online music stores in Europe," said OD2 chief executive officer Charles Grimsdale in a statement. As with Apple Computer's iTunes, the stores will be accessible inside the music-playing...
[August 14, 2003, 9:15]
Rolling Stones hit the Web
News The retail store is also using the promotion to sell Rolling Stones CDs, a plan that -- if successful for everyone involved -- could help ease the concern traditional music stores still have about online services.
[August 18, 2003, 12:45]
Record labels put the brakes on CD copy locks
News They're trying to complicate the issues," said John Sullivan, executive vice president of Transworld Entertainment, one of the nation's biggest owners of retail music stores. Now major record labels themselves have put the brakes on the drive for...
[September 3, 2002, 13:28]
Nokia vs Orange
Blog Trouble is, the operators have their own online music stores, and make a good deal of money from them. So you can see why they're less than happy at Nokia trying to push its way into that lucrative market.banned the phone outright, and Orange tried...
[August 30, 2007, 9:32]
Apple's spat with Real continues
News Record label executives, as well as rival technology companies, have repeatedly urged Apple to open up its iPod to play songs purchased from other music stores, but the company has declined to do so. Unlike CDs, songs sold by competing online...
[December 15, 2004, 10:00]
MP3 players stay at top of charts
News MP3 players are not quite this season's DVD player, but portable music players, combined with online music stores and services, will be a strong holiday shopping combination," David Card, Jupiter's research director, said in a statement.
[December 9, 2003, 15:35]
Is Napster taking a toll on CD sales?
News It surveyed SoundScan reporting retail stores. VNU said in contrast to the college stores, overall retail sales increased between January 1997 and March 2000. TVT Records, one of the largest US independent record labels, filed suit against online...
[May 25, 2000, 15:48]
Grokster decision muddies P2P waters
News Recent surveys indicate, however, that growth of unauthorised file swapping has slowed somewhat as online music stores, such as Apple's iTunes and RealNetworks' Rhapsody, have taken off. For another, iTunes and other authorised music stores lack...
[June 28, 2005, 9:25]
Windows Media Player 10 Beta review
Reviews If Microsoft also convinces a good selection of online media stores and services to sign on for its Digital Media Mall, Windows Media Player 10 could become a must-have for music fans on the Windows platform when it ships later this year.
[June 18, 2004, 8:55]
Apple sends out iPod Mini
News By placing gift cards on end caps in 1,200 Target stores, Apple will appeal to impulse shoppers, last-minute gift buyers and many who have yet to learn about the music store. While some early orders are now shipping, Apple said the Mini, which...
[February 18, 2004, 10:00]
Latest threat to music industry: the postal service?
News The same is true in the case of brick-and-mortar used-CD stores, but "those stores lack the potential scope of La La", Kevorkian said in her report. La La seeks to re-create online the experience of shopping in a local music store, where casual...
[August 3, 2006, 11:05]
UK buyers fume over copy-protected CD
News In the United Kingdom, a consumer activist group has mounted picketing campaigns of record stores to bring attention to the issue. Imbruglia's "White Lilies Island", which hit stores less than two weeks ago, is the highest-profile release to be...
[November 20, 2001, 9:18]
Consumers snub smaller music sites
News Online music sales are thriving but the smaller niche "dot com" stores are losing out to the Internet's major online traders, according to research published this week. The survey also showed that high street record stores still have little to fear...
[November 11, 1999, 17:07]
Netscape Online and Woolies target lads
News Kingfisher owns Comet stores and MVC (Music and Video Club) and, according to Jones, "has lots of plans for e-commerce". The distribution deal with Woolworths, which echoes the high-street push of Freeserve CDs through Dixons stores, will see...
[August 24, 1999, 11:20]
Facing the (digital) music
News While CDs in stores average $15 (£9) to $20 (£12) a piece, a CD bought on the Internet starts around $12 (£7) and digital music delivered over the Internet costs $9 (£5) for the album. Stores on the Internet can sell more music at a lower price...
[November 23, 1998, 9:38]
Pocket Tunes
Downloads Play music purchased from online music stores, such as Napster To Go, Rhapsody To Go, and Yahoo! Play music and audio books from your collection, or subscribe to an online music service to gain access to millions of unique songs!
[February 15, 2009, 11:51]
