Napster to enter ringtone market with Dwango
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MUMBAI: Napster today announced that it has forged an agreement with Dwango Wireless, a leading mobile developer and publisher of entertainment content to launch Napster Mobile across major North American carriers.
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Napster, one of the world&#39;s most well known music downloading services, has signed a lucrative deal with Dwango Wireless that could see a mobile phone capable of downloading ringtones from Napster by 2005.
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The company has formed an agreement with mobile developer and publisher Dwango Wireless to launch the service - Napster Mobile - across the US and Canada in 2005.
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Music download sewvice Napster will try to claim a piece of the growing market for mobile phone ringtones through a partnership with Dwango Wireless, which specializes in wireless content.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - With a possible billion-dollar  windfall at stake, U.S. music companies are eagerly awaiting  the full-blown development of the stateside ringtone market.
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NEW YORK/TOKYO  - Napster Inc. NAPS.O said on   Tuesday it launched an online song distribution site in Japan,   challenging Apple Computer Inc. AAPL.O and popular music   phones.
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Napster Inc, one of the largest  digital music retailers, said on Monday it would start selling  downloads in the MP3 format from the second quarter of this  year in the latest blow to copy protection for songs bought  online.
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Napster Offers Music Downloads to Cell Phones  Napster is invading a cell phone near you with Napster To Go, their portable music subscription service which is available for users of the new AT&#038;T Wireless based Audiovox SMT5600 Smartphone. The Napster To Go / Audiovox SMT5600 compatibility enables the only mobile phone ...
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Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)--Napster Japan Inc., a joint venture between Tower Records Japan Inc. and Napster LLC, said Thursday it has signed up more than 260 companies to provide content for the online music download service it plans to launch in Japan shortly.
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The Napster Mobile service will launch in the US and Canada in 2005 and will utilize a special Napster interface. Users will be able to download ringtones and earn credits redeemable on Napster PC-based service at the same time.
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InfoWorld - A U.K. startup hopes to compete with&#160;Apple&#39;s new iPhone by offering a flat-rate music service that can run on most of today&#39;s mobile phones.
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Napster Inc. said on Tuesday its  digital music service is now available in Japan, which it  called the largest music market outside of the United States.
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SAN ANTONIO - AT&amp;T Inc. is making Napster Inc.'s entire music catalog of more than 5 million songs available for wireless download starting early next month.
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The major record labels, which refused initially to deal with the emerging online song file-sharing technologies, have turned over a new leaf. Shawn Fanning, who invented the original Napster in a dorm room in 1998, Thursday announced his new firm, Snocap, which offers record companies and independent artists a vehicle to make money from their music traded on so-called peer-to-peer  services.
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Napster launched a portable version of its digital music service in the U.S. and the U.K. on Thursday, hoping to tempt users with an "all-you-can-eat" monthly subscription model. Called Napster To Go, the company will charge users $14.95 in the U.S. and Â£14.95 ($29) in the U.K. per month, letting them download an unlimited number of songs onto compatible MP3 players as well as their PCs. Napster users can fill and refill compatible MP3 players with their choice of tracks, but must plug, or dock, the device into their PC at least once every 30 days into order for Napster to verify they are still paying customers. If a user stops paying their monthly subscription fee, the music will no longer play on the device. As with Apple's iTunes, Napster also offers users the option of buying individual tracks for $0.99 in the U.S. and Â£0.79 in the U.K. Napster is the first subscription music service to take advantage of new copy-protection software from Microsoft that allows users to listen to digital music over devices as well as on their PCs.ADVERTISEMENTWhite paper: Solutions to Address IT Control RequirementsLearn how BMC Software Solutions address requirements such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 in this 20 page whitepaper!
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Napster dives headfirst into the unshackled MP3 market.
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As the recording industry wakes up  from its summer slumber and starts thinking about what will  motivate the consumer for the holiday selling season, the major  labels are getting ready to launch the &quot;ringle,&quot; which combines  the mostly defunct single format with ringtones.