MS, Apple pitch music at mobile phone makers
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Opinion Microsoft has begun to try and win over the hearts, minds and hardware of mobile phone vendors in a bid to dominate the emerging market for music downloads on handsets.
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InfoWorld - Even before Apple&#39;s much anticipated&#160;iPhone hits the shelves later this month, users of many different kinds of phones can listen to their iTunes music, via a new service from Seattle company Melodeo.
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AMSTERDAM - US software giant Microsoft is aiming to get its audio and video software into mobile phones before it is beaten to the 650-million-handsets-a-year market by rivals like Apple.
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Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs said the company's iTunes music service was improved on Wednesday to let songs to be made into iPhone ring tones for 99 cents each.
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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.
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With a covetous eye on the success of portable music players, mobile phone makers are going after would-be iPod buyers by building high-quality players into their handsets.
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Software giant Microsoft unveils a music-downloading service - MSN Music - to rival Apple's iTunes and other providers.
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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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A mobile music service that enables users to download music to many cell phones has been launched by a British startup.
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Microsoft insists its music store differs from iTunes, but the two services sure have a lot in common. The company will sell songs for $1 like Apple, and plans to match the volume of songs Apple makes available to users.
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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is waking up to the music. In the latest attempt to capture the fast-growing market of online music the big M is fighting to break the hold Apple&#39;s (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPod has on the market.
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The group is teaming up with US giant Microsoft to develop software and hardware enabling music lovers to download their favourite songs direct to their computers.
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The software giant may be developing a Windows Mobile OS-based competitor.
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Microsoft Corp. is fighting to expand its online music share and break the hold Apple&#39;s iPod has on the market. Microsoft&#39;s MSN music service began a free song promotion yesterday sponsored by American Express.
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The outlook for mobile music in 2005 can be summed up in one word: more.
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Microsoft Corp. is preparing to roll out a portable digital music player later this year, an apparent bid to capture a slice of the market now dominated by the iPod, music industry executives said Thursday.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - The outlook for mobile music in 2005  can be summed up in one word: more.