Tesco begins music-download site
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UK supermarket chain Tesco  launches an online music service it hopes will rival Apple's market-leading iTunes.
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Qtrax, a new legal online file-sharing  service that allows fans to download songs for free, said on  Sunday it will launch with 25 million to 30 million copyrighted  tracks with backing from major labels.
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The first vending machines to sell music  downloads are to be introduced in London next month as Britons  continue to turn their backs on traditional methods of buying  singles.
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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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A new music service that allows  consumers to directly download an unlimited number of tracks to  their cell phones for a small weekly fee from wherever they are  will launch in Europe on Thursday.
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The UK music industry has today launched a &#39;rolling program of legal action&#39; against illegal downloaders, the first of its kind in the country.
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The online retail giant finally unveils its long-awaited music store. In a double punch to Apple, it's DRM-free--and cheaper.
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Pile-high sell-cheap squared Tesco has clasped Dell to its sizeable retail bosom, and will begin punting the firm's computers from next month.â¦
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Tesco ainât daft, theyâve done the insurance blag and now they getting stuck into the music downloading service. They will be the first supermarket to enter a market that is worth over Â£25million and is currently dominated by the Apple run iTunes.
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BT is looking to breathe new life into its network of phoneboxes by giving customers the chance to download music.
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UK retail giant Tesco has decided to launch its own online music store, complete with downloads from thousands of artists and one of the most open sharing schemes on the Internet.
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Microsoft has finally launched an online music store in the US, albeit in &#39;preview&#39; form, some 16 months after the debut of iTunes.
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The UK music industry launches its first official download chart on BBC Radio 1 on Wednesday evening.
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TESCO, the UKâs biggest supermarket chain, is launching an online music service that it hopes will rival Appleâs market-leading iTunes.
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Supermarket giant Tesco launches a new digital download store today, becoming the latest entrant in the music downloading market - a Â¡Ãª25m a year business dominated by Apple&#39;s iTunes.
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(InfoWorld) - U.K. supermarket chain Tesco Stores will launch six PC software applications under its own brand, including a word processor and antivirus software, later this month. The software packages will sell for under Â£20 ($37), and will include free online support via e-mail. British "white label" software distributor Formjet will supply and support the software, through its subsidiary Formjet Innovations. Formjet holds the U.K. rights to distribute Panda Software's antivirus tools and Ability Plus Software's word processor and office applications, among others. It founded the Innovations subsidiary to sell versions of the software under other companies' brands. Formjet has software partners in 16 countries, and is looking for other sales outlets, company spokesman Graham O'Reilly said on Monday. "At the moment we're concentrating on the U.K., and we are talking to other retail partners," he said. For Tesco, Formjet has branded the software's packaging, code and online help with the supermarket chain's name, O'Reilly said. In a market where technical support is increasingly outsourced to offshore destinations with lower labor costs, Formjet has set up its support team south of London, in Crawley. "It's become quite a feature, these days, to say it's U.K.-based support," O'Reilly said. The company keeps support costs down by handling everything by e-mail. Customers "get an automated reply with the top ten answers based on the subject line of their e-mail," O'Reilly said. Typically, that's enough to deal with around half the questions the company receives: staff deal with the other half, he said. The antivirus and security software packs will include one year's e-mail support and software updates, he said. After that, customers can renew their subscription online or buy another pack at the supermarket. Formjet will impose no time limit on e-mail support for the other applications, he said. Even at such a low price, it's doubtful that Tesco will gain much market share, one analyst said, pointing to Microsoft's continued dominance of the office software market, despite the availability of competing applications for much lower prices, or even for free. "Many low-cost or free packages exist in each category, yet products that are many times the price of the cheapest option continue to dominate," David Mitchell of Ovum wrote in an e-mail. If it is to win customers, Tesco must make sure its applications can read and write files compatible with Microsoft's Office suite, he said. The software won't look out of place on Tesco's shelves: the supermarket already sells mobile phones, and is an Internet service provider, Internet telephony operator, and mobile virtual network operator.
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A new music service that allows  consumers to directly download an unlimited number of tracks to  their mobile phones for a small weekly fee from wherever they  are will launch in Europe on Thursday.