HMV tunes into trend for downloading music
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ENTERTAINMENT giant HMV tuned in to the craze for digital music yesterday by announcing plans for a new downloading service. The group is teaming up with US giant Microsoft to develop software and hardware
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UK music retailer HMV Group Plc has announced a partnership with Microsoft Corp to gatecrash Apple Corp&#39;s online music party. In a surprise move, HMV says its planned music downloading service will not work with Apple&#39;s popular iPod mP3 device.
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Virgin has become the latest company to launch an online music download service, but UK music fans will have to wait before they can give it a try.
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Users of HD Radio devices will soon be able to 'tag' songs they hear for later purchase using iTunes.
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AT&amp;T Wireless launched this week an online music service that provides instant gratification to subscribers who hear a tune they can&#39;t wait to download.
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Virgin has today launched a music download service that will go head to head with established players including iTunes and Napster.
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British mobile telecom operator mm02 will launch a high-speed mobile broadband service in 2005. Users will be able to download videos and music, and send large e-mail attachments at speeds
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The mobile carrier aims to compete against Apple with its own music downloading service
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Online auction giant eBay is entering the music download business with a service that will market content from major record labels.
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Mobile operator teams with European record label for service that lets consumers watch music videos on cell phones.
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(InfoWorld) - U.S. software company Beatnik is approaching mobile phone operators with a newÂ music downloadÂ system that compresses songs up to 10 times more than the MP3 format, allowing for faster downloads on lower-end mobile phones equipped with the company's software. Mobile music download services are typically only usable by those who have more expensive smartphones using 3G (third-generation) networks, which have higher download speeds than GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), said Jeremy Copp, chief sales officer for Beatnik. Beatnik's software compresses songs by taking common elements or repeated sounds and only replicating them once in the compressed file. The music player, on the client handset, can recreate those sounds in the right place during playback, Copp said. The decreased file size means songs download much faster over the same bandwidth, allowing users to start listening to the song as the rest of it is downloading, Copp said. Beatnik hopes the system will make music download services more appealing in developing markets such as India and Latin America. The faster download capability it offers is good for markets that haven't upgraded to 3G and where users have less expensive phones, Copp said. Compared to the broadband service offered by 3G networks, "There's still a huge proportion of the market that doesn't have access to that kind of bandwidth," he said. For the system to work, operators must convert their existing songs to the file format Beatnik uses, Mobile XMS. Beatnik's software also has to be installed on handsets by the phone manufacturers, Copp said. The company is in talks with operators, handset manufacturers and content providers about adopting the system and expects to announce a partnership in a month, Copp said. Â
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As personal computers with broadband Internet connections become an increasingly popular way for Americans to acquire music, high-tech companies are rushing to offer systems for getting music out of the PC and onto the stereo.
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Take your Virtual Wallet music shopping
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The digital music space is changing, with more songs and a growing number of places to download music legally. Realizing that the time was ripe to see how we were doing, I took some song recommendations and sat down to see what I could download.
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BT is looking to breathe new life into its network of phoneboxes by giving customers the chance to download music.
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Nokia launches a music download service that challenges both rival handset makers and network providers.
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Down with the kids Teenage intellectual property (IP) law swotters are less likely to illegally download music and film files from the internet than their clueless counterparts, Microsoft claimed yesterday.â¦