PassAlong Networks and Orb Networks Partner to Provide the Most Comprehensive End-to-End Digital Music Service
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The freedom to discover and download music anytime, wherever you happen to be, and on the device of your choice is closer to becoming a reality.
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Video capabilities are key, as company touts its goal to deliver any video format to any device anywhere on any network built with its infrastructure solutions.
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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. SNDK.O and   RealNetworks Inc. RNWK.O.
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Universal Music Group is testing the all-digital waters with a new label venture that sells its releases exclusively through download and streaming services like iTunes, Rhapsody and Napster.
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European digital music service Wippit has signed a deal to license the catalogs of Universal Music and Warner Music, enabling its customers to download songs from all of the four major labels.
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Two industry heavyweights have completed interoperability tests of a new technology designed to drive the convergence of voice, data, and video services over wireless and fixed infrastructure based on the Internet Protocol.
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(InfoWorld) - A U.K. startup hopes to compete withÂ Apple's new iPhone by offering a flat-rate music service that can run on most of today's mobile phones. Omnifone Ltd. launched on Thursday its MusicStation service that allows mobile phone users to download as many music tracks as they want for â¬2.99 (US$3.97) per week. The company previewed MusicStation in February at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. The Swedish mobile phone subsidiary of Norwegian telco Telenor ASA is the first to offer the MusicStation service. More than 30 operators in Europe, Asia and South Africa have signed up to offer the service. To use MusicStation, users must have handsets preinstalled with the application. "MusicStation runs on any Java and music-enabled device," said Omnifone spokesman Tim Hadley. "We're talking about 75 percent of the phones currently available on the market." The company plans to have more than 100 million MusicStation-enabled handsets within the next 12 months. Omnifone has developed software that allows its application to be ported to the many different types of Java used on mobile phones, according to Hadley. One of the main benefits of MusicStation is quick and easy navigating and downloading -- unlike many of the carrier music portals, based on WAP (Wireless Access Protocol) technology, which can be time-consuming and difficult to browse, according to the spokesman. "The application is very comparable to an MP3 player user experience," he said. Downloads to mobile phones over 3G (third-generation) mobile phone networks can take between 30 seconds and one minute, all of which can happen in the background. The service also runs on GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) networks. Omnifone has signed licensing deal with several large music companies, including EMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group and Warner Music International. "We're starting with over 1 million tracks," Hadley said. DRM (digital rights management) technology protects all of the music. The mobile MusicStation service includes several features, such as messaging and the ability to share playlists and tracks. Over the next few months, the company plans to offer a MusicStation desktop application. For an additional â¬1 per month, customers can have all of the tracks downloaded to their mobile phones automatically download to their PCs when they log on to the portal service, according to Hadley. Operators, music companies and Omnifone will split revenue generated by MusicStation. Apple announced this week that iPhone users will need an account for its iTunes Store music service before activating the device. The iPhone debuts in the U.S. on June 29. Â
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SEATTLE  --  RealNetworks Inc. is teaming up with SanDisk Corp. to release a portable music player that more closely links with RealNetworks' Rhapsody online music service, in the latest attempt to take on Apple's iPod and iTunes stronghold.
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The music download service plans to battle Apple with an unlimited-tune subscription deal.
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Warner Music Group has signed a deal to  allow its entire catalog to be played over the fast-growing  social networking music service Last.fm, the innovative site  that links music fans to new and old hits.
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Software giant Microsoft unveils a music-downloading service to rival Apple's iTunes and other providers.
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It is a licensed file-sharing service with almost an unlimited selection of tracks that will give record labels a degree of control over file-sharing.
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Record labels including Universal and SonyBMG have begun selling music through a new download service.
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RealNetworks finds a partner in Yahoo! Music.
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- Napster Inc , one of the largest  digital music retailers, said it will partner with Swedish  telecom equipment maker Ericsson   and  Chilean telecommunications company Entel PCS  to launch  its mobile music service in Latin America for the first time.
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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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Tech giants Microsoft and Cisco have agreed to develop and promote interoperability between their respective network access technologies.