Samsung to launch music download service
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.   005930.KS on Friday said it plans to introduce a line of   digital music players and a download service, under an   agreement with privately held media provider MusicNet.
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In the first foray by a U.S. wireless carrier into the online music market, AT&T Wireless is launching a service that lets subscribers buy songs using their cell phones and later download them to a computer.
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At least one online music service without digital rights management restrictions is launching.
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Record labels including Universal and SonyBMG have begun selling music through a new download service.
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Best Buy Co. Inc. on Thursday said it  will introduce a new music service with digital music player  maker SanDisk Corp.  and music software company  RealNetworks Inc.  to create the latest competing  service to Apple's iPod and iTunes combination.
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In the first foray by a US wireless carrier into the online music market, AT&amp;T is launching a service that lets subscribers buy songs using their cell phones and later download them to a computer.
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world&#39;s third-largest handset maker, said on Tuesday it was launching the first mobile phone with a stamp-sized hard disc drive this month that would expand the memory capacity by 15 times.
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Samsung became the latest manufacturer of MP3 players to open its own online music store today, following in the footsteps of Apple and Microsoft and further fragmenting the online music market. In Listening Post.
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A U.K. startup hopes to compete with Apple's new iPhone by offering a flat-rate music service for most mobile phones.
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Online retailer Play.com launches a music download service that aims to take on market leader iTunes.
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InfoWorld - Samsung Electronics has developed a chip-manufacturing technique able to significantly increase the amount of music, pictures, videos, and other data people can store in future iPods, iPhones, and other devices.
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Napster has claimed a first with the development of a subscription portable music service that delivers legal audio content to next-generation mobile phones.
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Vodaphone, the biggest cell phone company in the world, has launched a music download service for mobile phones. [Broadband Blog]
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Virgin has today launched a music download service that will go head to head with established players including iTunes and Napster.
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Samsung unveiled an MP3 music player with video playback and its dual Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD player on the eve of the IFA consumer electronics show.
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(InfoWorld) - A U.K. startup hopes to compete withÂ Apple's new iPhone by offering a flat-rate music service that can run on most of today's mobile phones. Omnifone Ltd. launched on Thursday its MusicStation service that allows mobile phone users to download as many music tracks as they want for â¬2.99 (US$3.97) per week. The company previewed MusicStation in February at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. The Swedish mobile phone subsidiary of Norwegian telco Telenor ASA is the first to offer the MusicStation service. More than 30 operators in Europe, Asia and South Africa have signed up to offer the service. To use MusicStation, users must have handsets preinstalled with the application. "MusicStation runs on any Java and music-enabled device," said Omnifone spokesman Tim Hadley. "We're talking about 75 percent of the phones currently available on the market." The company plans to have more than 100 million MusicStation-enabled handsets within the next 12 months. Omnifone has developed software that allows its application to be ported to the many different types of Java used on mobile phones, according to Hadley. One of the main benefits of MusicStation is quick and easy navigating and downloading -- unlike many of the carrier music portals, based on WAP (Wireless Access Protocol) technology, which can be time-consuming and difficult to browse, according to the spokesman. "The application is very comparable to an MP3 player user experience," he said. Downloads to mobile phones over 3G (third-generation) mobile phone networks can take between 30 seconds and one minute, all of which can happen in the background. The service also runs on GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) networks. Omnifone has signed licensing deal with several large music companies, including EMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group and Warner Music International. "We're starting with over 1 million tracks," Hadley said. DRM (digital rights management) technology protects all of the music. The mobile MusicStation service includes several features, such as messaging and the ability to share playlists and tracks. Over the next few months, the company plans to offer a MusicStation desktop application. For an additional â¬1 per month, customers can have all of the tracks downloaded to their mobile phones automatically download to their PCs when they log on to the portal service, according to Hadley. Operators, music companies and Omnifone will split revenue generated by MusicStation. Apple announced this week that iPhone users will need an account for its iTunes Store music service before activating the device. The iPhone debuts in the U.S. on June 29. Â
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(InfoWorld) - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is launching one of the world's first MP3 portable music players using Bluetooth technology to replace cables. "As far as we know, we're the first to offer a Bluetooth-enabled MP3 player," a Samsung spokesman said Friday at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin. The phone's release date was not provided. Embedded Bluetooth technology will allow users to connect their headphones to their MP3 players over the airwaves, thus eliminating the need for cabled ear plugs, which users find annoying. The YP-T9 will cost â¬249 (US$320) in the 2G-byte version and â¬279 in the 4G-byte version. Bluetooth headsets will cost between â¬20 and â¬30. The new Samsung cordless MP3 music player, however, will not be available in Germany, according to the company spokesman. "The Bluetooth headset is a bit heavy," he said. "A Bluetooth-enabled portable media player that costs â¬300, but offers only 2G bytes could be a tough sale against an iPod with a whole lot more storage for the same price."