No price cut as Virgin unveils US music download service
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LONDON - Virgin launches its rival to Apple&#39;s iTunes and Roxio&#39;s Napster in the US today, although consumers will get no break on price because the service charges the same 99 cents a song to download.
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Microsoft have made a beta version of their new music store available to the public. The store is entirely browser-based and does not require a separate client like iTunes.
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Virgin becomes one of the first major music retailers to enter an increasingly crowded online music market.
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New York, September 28: British tycoon Richard Branson&#39;s Virgin Group has said it was jumping into the market for online music, with a &quot;digital megastore&quot; offering US customers song downloads for 99 cents.
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Arts & entertainment: US government looks into record labels' proposals to offer unlimited music for mobile devices for a flat fee
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Record labels including Universal and SonyBMG have begun selling music through a new download service.
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On Monday, Virgin Group subsidiary Virgin Digital launched an online store designed to leverage the name recognition of its brick-and-mortar Virgin Megastore while competing with a subscription-based model.
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Virgin Electronics, the consumer electronics arm of Richard Branson's Virgin Group,  on Tuesday unveiled a new portable music player to compete directly with Apple Computer Inc.'s  popular iPod mini player.
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Not in the UK, still more expensive. Whodathunkit? Apple has responded to the launch of Amazon's DRM-free music download store with a price cut to its own iTunes Plus.â¦
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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.
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Virgin launched its 5 GB player, whose battery life (eight hours) and retail price ($249) both match the iPod Mini&#39;s. There are also reports of the impending release of Creative&#39;s
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The world's largest music company will sell restriction-free music downloads at Amazon.com and other online vendors. But not at Apple's iTunes store.
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A new service, supported by advertisements, will let consumers download a huge catalog of songs from the worldÂs largest record company for free.
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A new music service that allows  consumers to directly download an unlimited number of tracks to  their cell phones for a small weekly fee from wherever they are  will launch in Europe on Thursday.
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BRITISH tycoon Richard Branson&#39;s Virgin Group is jumping into the market for online music, with a &quot;Digital Megastore&quot; offering US customers song downloads for US99c ($1.
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Richard Branson's Virgin Group said it was jumping into online music, with a &quot;Digital Megastore&quot; for US customers offering song downloads for 99 cents.
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Apple is to cut the price it charges in the UK for music downloads from iTunes within six months.