Major Record Labels Embrace Mobile Technology
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LOS ANGELES -- The music industry, searching for ever-expanding ways to promote acts and generate new revenue streams, is getting increasingly creative in its use of mobile technology.
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By MARK PRIGG  A SERVICE for downloading songs on to mobile phones that experts say could rival that of Apple's iTunes Music Store was launched today.
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This past year marked the  beginning of a revolutionary experiment to sell and distribute  digital music to and from mobile phones. The stage is only just  being set, with the business models, pricing and marketing  issues still evolving.
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Steve Jobs, Bono and the Edge Tuesday ushered in what Apple&#39;s CEO and the two members of U2 called a new era of digital music.
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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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By THE WASHINGTON POST  WASHINGTON - Technology is taking the middleman out of the music business, giving artists a bigger array of tools to get their songs in the MP3 players of potential fans around the world.
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Company debuts new products that let businesspeople shuttle data from databases to mobile gadgets.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - The music industry continues to build bridges between the digital and physical world.
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Eminem's chart-topping new album is accompanied by all kinds of new-media tools and toys, reflecting the growing popularity of listening to music without using a stereo.
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Microsoft&#39;s WMA, Apple&#39;s ACC, Sony&#39;s Altrac and others -- compete in a variety of digital music devices, support for MP3 is becoming a required ingredient for any successful portable player.
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Several new online services  have emerged with their own takes on digital music discovery.
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Two of the World&#39;s largest Record companies have formed an alliance on new digital products. EMI and Sony BMG, which between them control more than 30% of the global music market, said the ground-breaking
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Melodeo, a mobile music service, has signed a deal with the Warner Music Group to make complete tracks from Warner&#39;s music catalog available to cell phone users.
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Music is becoming the dominant entertainment on mobile phones, reports BBC Click.
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The portable stereos that ruled city streets in the 1980s aren't shipping in high volumes anymore. But some sound artists are finding new ways to incorporate the devices into performances and ad-hoc radio networks. By Elizabeth Biddlecombe.
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CANNES, France  - Away from the headlines of job losses, grumbling artists and falling global sales, the music industry is trying new business models to boost digital sales and offset the decline in CDs.
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CANNES/HELSINKI  - The world's largest mobile  phone maker, Nokia, and software giant Microsoft struck a deal  on Monday to make it easier for consumers to buy digital music  online and play it back on their handsets.