Sony ditching Connect music service
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Acknowledging its proprietary audio technology was a marketplace flop, Sony Corp. said Thursday it plans to shutter its Connect digital music store and open its portable media players to other formats.
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InfoWorld - Virgin Group will shut down its online music subscription and download service in the United States and the United Kingdom next month, leaving one&#160;fewer competitor for Apple&#39;s iTunes Music Store.
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In a major strategic reversal, Sony Corp. said Wednesday it plans to add support for MP3 music files to some of its portable music players.
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Sony Corp. next week will launch a marketing blitz in Europe for its new Connect music download store, its latest effort to derail the runaway momentum of Apple Computer's iTunes service.
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Sony has announced trials of a service that will offer downloadble albums that have no digital locks on them.
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Sony&#39;s (NYSE: SNE) tweaking its musical strategy, with reports galore that the electronics giant will now support the playback of MP3 files on many of its digital music players.
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Sony Corp has unveiled its first MP3-compatible, hard disk Walkman music player in an attempt to recover ground lost to Apple Computerâs iPod.
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Sony is considering making digital music devices that play MP3 song files, the consumer electronics group said yesterday. The move could mean a major shift for the company as the creator of the Walkman has
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Sony's three-year effort to beat Apple Inc.'s iTunes Music Store is over. The company will shutter its Connect music store and adopt Windows Media DRM.
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Sony&#39;s music unit is abandoning its CDs that use built-in technology that limits copying them, after pushing the program for two years.
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Blog: Sony has taken the wraps off the ICF-C1iP clock radio and ZS-S2iP boombox, both of which feature docks for Apple's iPod music player--rival to Sony's once dominant Walkman brand.
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Sony Corp.'s music unit is abandoning its CDs that use built-in technology that limits copying them, after pushing the program for two years.
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Sony has embarked on a potential collision course with music groups, including its own Sony BMG joint venture, over MP3 digital song files.
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Sony Corp.&#39;s Japanese music unit says it will no longer sell CDs with built-in copy protection, a technology it had been pushing for two years.
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Sony has announced trials of a service that will offer downloadble music tracks that have no digital locks on them.
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Yeah, theyâre saying Sonyâs two new players wonât make you deal with that ridiculous SonicStage MP3 to ATRAC converstion stuff anymore, and itâs being reported that the two new players will be among the first to natively support MP3.
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Virgin is calling it quits in the digital music business. The company has stopped selling tracks and accepting new customers as of Friday, and will shut down for good on October 19.