Q&A: Universal Music's iTunes Gambit
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What would happen if the world's largest music corporation didn't renew its contract with Apple Inc.?
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Apple's iTunes Store is convenient, cheap and cool. But its music downloads can come with nagging worries driven by the copy-control software behind the iTunes Store -- which generally limits playback to Apple's iTunes software and iPod music players.
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The Universal Music Group of Vivendi, the worldâs biggest music corporation, last week notified Apple that it will not renew its annual contract to sell music through iTunes.
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The US music industry is strengthening its embrace of music download services, with a unique Grammy Award/iTunes tie-up. The organisers of the Grammy Awards have reached a deal with Apple to
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Universal Music Group, the world&#39;s  largest music company, has declined to sign a long-term deal  with Apple Inc.&#39;s iTunes music store, leaving open the  possibility for exclusive deals with other services, an  industry source said on Sunday.
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Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, has declined to sign a long-term deal with Apple Inc.'s  iTunes music store, leaving open the possibility for exclusive deals with other services, an industry source said on Sunday.
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DENVER (Billboard) - After 2006 -- a year when virtually no  one managed to launch a digital music service in competition  with Apple's dominant iTunes -- 2007 was a refreshing change of  pace.
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Media & professional: File-sharing has holed the record industry below the waterline. So why does private equity guru Guy Hands want to buy EMI?
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A new advertising-supporting free music website has won the backing of Universal Music Group, creating a new model that could challenge market leader Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store.
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As enrollment at Arizona State University topped the 65,000-student mark, Dr. Adrian Sannier, the schoolâs chief information technology, saw a golden opportunity in store. The iTunes Store, that is. Numerous universities were already taking advantage of iTunes U to deliver digital content to students, and Sannier realized that Arizona State could go âstraight to the head of the class with iTunes U, the worldâs greatest content delivery infrastructure. iTunes U,â he explains, âhas allowed us to move into the rich-media space, completely seamlessly.â
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Some Macworld Online readers have experienced problems using the UK iTunes Music Store in recent days. Letters received by Macworld confirm multiple instances in which users trying to access
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DRM-free service to roll out this year Presenting possibly the biggest threat to the dominance of iTunes so far, Amazon.com has announced it will commence an international roll-out of Amazon MP3, it's DRM-free digital music store, this year.â¦
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Apple bears the ultimate responsibility for making iTunes compatible with rival music players, says the agency leading a European effort to make it happen. By the Associated Press.
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Q:I HAVE SOME SONGS that play fine with the iTunes program, but when I look for the song files on my hard drive, I can&#39;t find them.
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Apple has responded to a midnight Wednesday deadline in relation to antitrust concerns over the pricing of songs on its iTunes online music store across different European countries. The European Commission has expressed concerns about Apple setting unfair iTunes pricing prohibiting users in one country from downloading music from a website intended to serve another. A European commission spokesperson said: "They answered yesterday and we are studying [the response] carefully at this point."
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Music, that is. Thanks to the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, the editors at E! Online find it all but irresistible to indulge in the guilty pleasure of impulse music buying. âAs long as youâre at a hot spot, you can click on the new Wi-Fi widget for your iPhone or iPod touch and get access to Appleâs music library at the usual 99 cents per song.â
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Major press sources including The New York Times this morning are citing anonymous executives reportedly with direct involvement in negotiations, as saying Universal Music Group has opted not to renew its annual contract with Apple's iTunes. The company will instead opt for a month-by-month arrangement, similar to what it has with smaller MP3 distributors.