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Vodafone chief's departure is a sign of the times
Comment Giving what was presumably his final keynote at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) tradeshow in Barcelona in February, Sarin's words certainly had the air of a swan-song - laying out his hopes and dreams for the mobile industry, which... [29 May 2008]
Digital Media Resolves Oracle I/O Bottlenecks, Accelerates Music Downloads
White Paper Their system enables customers at a major mass market retailer to offer individual song downloads from their internet retail website. Digital Media develops and operates real-time delivery of multi-media content for retail delivery. [12 Dec 2007]
Apple slapped with copyright suit - report
News Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated sued Apple in 2004 over the rapper's song 'Lose Yourself', which Apple used in a TV commercial. Apple pays a portion of the revenue it collects from Eminem downloads to Universal Music Group, which distributes... [01 Aug 2007]
iTunes' three-billion song chorus
News Back in February 2006 iTunes passed the one billion song downloads milestone. iTunes has racked up its three billionth song download, Apple has revealed. Last month, fears arose after consumer watchdog group the Electronic Frontier Foundation... [31 Jul 2007]
Amazon to open DRM-less digital song store
News Apple is expected to offer the label's DRM-free music beginning this month at $1.29 per song, versus DRM-protected music for 99 cents per song. offered a single song without DRM from singer Jessica Simpson. [16 May 2007]
Apple to sell DRM-free music through iTunes
News Industry watchers had speculated such openness could eventually hurt sales of iPods by giving consumers the ability to choose any MP3 player and have it work with the iTunes Store, which is currently the world's biggest online song shop with some... [02 Apr 2007]
Microsoft to issue fix for Zune glitch
News He said Microsoft did see its base of subscription customers grow by 60 per cent in January over the prior month and individual song downloads increased 65 per cent in the same period. Microsoft is planning to issue a firmware update next month... [01 Mar 2007]
Mobile music to strike a rich note
News The recently announced Apple iPhone and Microsoft's Zune MP3 player - both of which allow consumers to purchase music at the companies' song shops - will compete with mobile operators' content offerings and force mobile phone operators to develop... [23 Jan 2007]
Apple reveals new front in iTunes battle
News Apple is engaged in an ongoing legal battle with the French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir, which accuses the company of "deceit" over its interoperability with rival online song shops. Apple also fell foul of Nordic regulators and French lawmakers... [03 Jan 2007]
Apple denies iTunes sales slump
News Apple racked up more than one billion song downloads earlier in the year from its 21 iTunes music stores across the globe. Apples has rejected claims that sales of content through its iTunes store have slumped. [13 Dec 2006]
Weekly Round-Up: 30.06.06
Round-Up Likewise, "You don't know what you're looking for but it ain't here, so say goodbye", from his song 'Only a Fool' might neatly sum up McKinnon's search for ET (though we're willing to admit we're wrong when the invasion fleet arrives). [30 Jun 2006]
Mobile music to be beat online by 2010
News While prices for wireless over-the-air downloads typically cost up to three times more than those bought over fixed lines, IDC predicts pricing for single track downloads bought on mobiles will settle at around $2 - twice the price of a song on... [16 Jun 2006]
Jobs set to win iTunes pricing battle
News According to a report in the New York Post, the big four record labels had been pushing Apple to agree to introduce variable pricing instead of the 99 cents per song model the online song shop now uses. [21 Apr 2006]
Mobile music worth third of $1.1bn digital tunes
News While some in the music industry attribute this drop in piracy to a series of lawsuits, other industry watchers believe it's simply a reflection of the increasing availability and comparatively low prices of music at the online song shops. [20 Jan 2006]
Illegal file-sharing three times as popular as iTunes
News A report from analyst house JupiterResearch discovered that consumers are three times more likely to get their digital music from illegal file-sharing networks than pay to download the tracks from online song shops such as iTunes and Napster, with... [29 Nov 2005]
