Best Buy to launch Apple iTunes competitor
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Best Buy, in cooperation with SanDisk and RealNetworks, is the latest company to join the growing list of competitors to Apple&#8217;s iTunes music service.
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NEW YORK -- Best Buy Co. Inc. aims to take digital music to a wider audience by introducing a music player and subscription service with partners SanDisk Corp. and RealNetworks Inc.
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Digital music download service eMusic is  launching across Europe on Tuesday in a bid to become the top  alternative to market leader iTunes, the same distinction it  holds in the United States.
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Apple Computer Inc. said on Tuesday its iTunes online music store would begin selling movies from Disney, Pixar, and Touchstone as the company makes its most aggressive move yet into the digital home.
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Apple Computer Inc. said on  Tuesday its iTunes online music store would begin selling  movies from Disney, Pixar, and Touchstone as the company makes  its most aggressive move yet into the digital home.
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Digital music download service eMusic is   launching across Europe on Tuesday in a bid to become the top   alternative to market leader iTunes, the same distinction it   holds in the United States.
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Apple Computer Inc. said on   Tuesday it will begin selling movie downloads from Walt Disney   Co.'s film studios, aiming to turn its iTunes online music   store into a one-stop shop for digital entertainment.
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(InfoWorld) - Best Buy,Â in cooperation with SanDisk and RealNetworks, is the latest company to join the growing list of competitors to Apple Computer's iTunes music service. Best Buy unveiled on Thursday a online music service, called Best Buy Digital Music Store, that allows customers to find, manage and purchase music online. It is powered by RealNetworks' Rhapsody 4.0 music service and lets users purchase and permanently download songs and albums, as well as subscribe monthly to listen to an unlimited number of songs, the company said. As part of the offering, Best Buy also will carry and promote SanDisk Sana e200R Rhapsody MP3 players, which have been optimized to work with its new music service. Both the players and the service will be available starting Oct. 15, the company said. Jennifer Schaidler, vice president of music for Best Buy, said the company is differentiating its service from Rhapsody by offering exclusive artist content and tailoring that to what Best Buy customers are purchasing. "Look at it as Rhapsody 4.0 plus," she said. "You get all the stuff that's there [on Rhapsody], plus more exclusive content." Selling CDs and MP3 players in its stores and online is already a successful part of Best Buy's business, so offering a music service was a logical next step for the company, Schaidler said. "Customers expect Best Buy to provide them with quality entertainment in an easy way," she said. Songs on the Best Buy Digital Music Store will cost $0.99, with monthly subscriptions that allow users to play an unlimited number of songs for $14.99 a month The news comes on the heels of the formal unveiling last week ofÂ the availability and pricing for Microsoft's forthcoming Zune Player and Zune Marketplace service. Microsoft will make the digital media players and service available in the U.S. on Nov. 14. Like Best Buy's new service, songs on the Zune Marketplace will cost about $0.99 each, though the charges will be according to a points system (i.e., 79 points a song) that will allow users to purchase items on other Microsoft properties, such as Xbox Live. Zune Marketplace's unlimited monthly subscription also costs $14.99 a month. Songs on Apple's iTunes service cost $0.99, but there is no monthly subscription available. Pricing for the SanDisk music player that works with the new Best Buy service is higher than that of comparable iPod or Zune devices, however. The Zune digital media player, which has 30G bytes of storage, will cost $249.99, the same as 30G-byte video iPods already available from Apple. SanDisk Sana e200r MP3 players come in two models -- a 2G byte model for $139.99 and an 8G byte model for $249.99. However, while the Zune player and the SanDisk Sana players include an FM radio tuner in addition to the ability to play digital music, videos and photos, the iPod has only the latter features. To promote its new service, Best Buy will launch with an exclusive track from recording artist Diddy from his new CD, "Press Play." The CD will be on sale Oct. 17.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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The popular online community site said it will sell songs from nearly three million unsigned bands, in an attempt to challenge AppleÂs iTunes Music Store.
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Leading supermarket chain Tesco has launched a music download service, entering a market dominated by Apple Computer&#39;s iTunes.
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Apple is the undisputed champion of the hard-drive music market, but competitors are gearing up for a shot at the title.
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Apple&#39;s iTunes might be changing into a general e-commerce platform that also contains a massive media-distribution center. This evolution is one possible result of the news that iPhone users, who will have an account with AT&T Wireless for service, will need an iTunes account.
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Several rivals of Apple Computer Inc.   AAPL.O plan digital music devices to work closely with their   own online music services, just as Apple's iPods and iTunes do,   The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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Real is in a running battle with Apple, whose iTunes download store dominates with about 70 percent of legal downloading and whose iPod device for music storage is hugely popular. The iPod and iTunes were designed to work exclusively ...
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The iPod and iTunes will see competition from wireless network providers, according to the CEO of Warner Music Group. Speaking at the UBS Media Week Conference, Warner&#39;s Edgar Bronfman suggested
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Company hopes that the rival to Apple's iTunes will make draw visitors to MSN website.
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Apple has announced it is to open a multi-nation European iTunes shop sometime in October. The computer manufacturer&#39;s vice-president of applications, Eddie Cue, made the announcement yesterday at the Popkomm conference in Berlin.