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Product RED to Begin Digital Music Service to Fight HIV in Africa

Product RED on Monday announced that it is launching a digital music service that will give half of the money collected from a $5 per month user fee to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the New York Times reports. The other half of the monthly fees will go to artists who contribute songs and their record companies.

Product RED To Begin Digital Music Service To Fight HIV/AIDS in Africa

Product RED on Monday announced that it is launching a digital music service that will give half of the money collected from a $5 per month user fee to the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the

Digital Music Provider Aims To Compete In Social Media Market

Digital Music Provider Aims To Compete In Social Media Market - WaTunes.com, a leading digital content provider that helps music artists, record labels, and distributors sell their music on iTunes has announced its plans to enter the social media market with their new site WaTunes 2 scheduled to launch on September 1st of this year. WaTunes 2 is a social media distribution service that provides not only digital services for music artists to sell their music on iTunes, but also welcomes the fans to listen to free music from the WaTunes 2 catalog, rate & comment their favorite albums, meet new friends, and download music on iTunes. “By combining core elements of digital content management, social networking, and Web 2.0, we’re able to create a system that caters to a wide-range of demands from both the artists and fans from around the w

Sky to launch online music service, 1st partner is Universal

UK pay-TV operator Sky is to launch an online music service for the UK and Ireland. Universal Music Group is the first to confirm its participation in the service, which will offer digital access to hundreds of thousands of songs from Universal Music artists. The new service offers, for a single monthly subscription, music fans of all ages can enjoy unlimited listening to a choice of songs as well as the opportunity to download tracks to own forever. A range of subscription options will be available, offering different download packages tailored to customers' needs and the downloaded tracks will work on any MP3-compatible fixed or portable device, including iPods, MP3 players and mobile phones. To further increase the choice of music offered by the service, Sky is in discussions with other music companies, both majors and independents, an

Sky to Partner with Universal Music for Innovative New Digital Music Service

Sky is to launch a ground breaking, easy and affordable new service enabling UK and Irish consumers to access music online. Universal Music Group, the world’s leading music company, is the first to confirm its participation in the service, which will offer digital access to hundreds of thousands of songs from Universal Music artists such as U2, Kanye West, Amy Winehouse, Mika, the Killers, Snow Patrol, Luciano Pavarotti, ABBA, Rihanna, Eminem, Andrea Bocelli, Elton John and Duffy.

Hip Digital Media Launches Custom Digital Music Store for Nectar

Hip Digital Media, the leading consumer experience network, and Nectar, the UK's leading loyalty card, today announced the launch of the Nectar Digital Music Store. Available for the first time from any Loyalty Program in the UK, music can be downloaded in a high quality MP3 format and is compatible with virtually any digital music device. With more than one million songs from the music catalogues of EMI, SONY BMG, Warner Music, and The Orchard, songs will be available for download at www.nectarmusicstore.com.

Hip Digital Media Launches Custom Digital Music Store for Nectar

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Business Wire) -- Hip Digital Media, the leading consumer experience network, and Nectar, the UK's leading loyalty card, today announced the launch of the Nectar Digital Music Store. Available for the first time from any Loyalty Program in the UK, music can be downloaded in a high quality MP3 format and is compatible with virtually any digital music device. With more than one million songs from the music catalogues of EMI, SONY BMG, Warner Music, and The Orchard, songs will be available for download at www.nectarmusicstore.com.

MOG Launches MOG Music Network to Drive Ad Revenue and Exposure for Music Blogs and Music Websites

BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- MOG (http://mog.com/), a music blogging platform powered by industry-leading music discovery technology, today announced the launch of MOG Music Network (MMN), a new advertising network for independent music blogs and music websites. MOG, which was recently named one of the top 10 hottest music websites by WIRED, launches MOG Music Network with more than 30 music blog and website affiliates already in place. To fill out an application to join MMN, visit http://www.mog.com/mmn.

Google launches free music download service in China

Google announced the launch of a free music-search service in China via its search engine, the Wall Street Journal reported. The service allows users to download licensed music files without charge and will be supported by advertising revenue split between Google, music companies and Chinese music website Top100.cn. Google did not specify which music labels have signed on. Internet users outside of China will not have access to the service. The move could help Google gain on Chinese rival search firm Baidu.com, which as of the second quarter held a 64.6% share in China's online search market compared to Google's 26.1%, according to data from technology consultancy Analysys International. A lawsuit was recently filed against Baidu for facilitating the download of unlicensed music via its search engine.

Hip Digital Media Launches Custom Digital Music Store for Nectar

s leading loyalty card, today announced the launch of the Nectar Digital Music Store. Available for the first time from any Loyalty Program in the UK, music can be downloaded in a high quality MP3 format and is compatible with virtually any digital music device. With more than one million songs from the music catalogues of EMI, SONY BMG, Warner Music, and The Orchard, songs will be available for download at www.nectarmusicstore.com.

Online music portal unveiled

Radio City 91.1 FM has announced the launch of Planet Radiocity.com — a mega music portal. Catering to the music-related needs of musically inclined people, music professionals and members of the music industry, the portal provides resources to everything music-related. Ms Apurva Purohit, CEO, Radio City 91.1 FM, said: “ Planet Radiocity.com is designed to give a voice to the Indian music fraternity. This mega portal is conceived to provide the music industry, with a platform where musicians, artists, industry experts and music enthusiasts commune. The Web site aims at bringing about awareness in the minds of the Indian consumer on various genres and upcoming musicians from across the country. By empowering the music industry with the power of expression through an interactive space such as the Web, we hope that all members of this co

Apple bringing red iPhone?

What about adding some warmth with the red flare of iPhone 3G this Christmas? Apple’s penchant for the red is rumored to come alive once again this winter season when Apple launches its red iPhone 3G. Everything is part of Apple’s participation in the RED campaign where money from the revenue goes to the Global AIDS fund to fight the viral menace in Africa. Earlier we had seen red iTunes gift cards, red 8GB iPod Nano and 1GB iPod Shuffle and now hopefully a red iPhone 3G. Nothing could be more colorful than this during the Christmas season.

RealNetworks Debuts MP3 Store

Seattle-based RealNetworks Inc., operator of the Rhapsody digital music service, revealed today that it has launched an online music store that will compete head-to-head against iTunes and other popular digital music retailers. RealNetworks said the Rhapsody-branded servic, will offer most of its songs for 99 cents and most of its albums for $9.99. All downloads, the company added, will be in the popular MP3 format, which can be played on most any portable music device and which is free of proprietary digital-rights-management restrictions. To promote its new service, RealNetworks said it will award free albums to the first 100,000 people who register with Rhapsody and shop before the Fourth of July. Additionally, RealNetworks said its service will offer shoppers full-length song playback instead of the 30-second samples available with co

We7 Signs MP3 Streaming Deal with Warner Music

We7, a UK-based digital music service, has struck a deal with Warner Music to provide free streaming music tracks to its registered users. The agreement will enable users to listen to an unlimited number of full-length tracks rather than the 30-second clips that are usually the case with download services. The streaming music service will be funded using audio advertisements that will be played prior to each track; listeners will also be able to use We7's a la carte download store if they prefer to purchase the music.

IODA Signs Demon Music Group for Worldwide Digital Music Distribution

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/19/08 -- IODA, the global leader in digital distribution, marketing, and technology solutions for the independent music industry, today announced a ground breaking, exclusive partnership with catalog music specialist Demon Music Group for the U.S. and Canada. This deal expands IODA's catalog of more than one million tracks with some of popular music's most famous heritage artists including Ian Gillan, Don McLean, Ian Dury, Frankie Ford and Andy Williams. The announcement was made today at the London Calling conference in London, UK.

New Online Music Service Will Raise Money for Global Fund

Product RED on Monday announced that it is launching a digital music service that will give half of the money collected from a $5 per month user fee to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the New York Times reports. The other half of the monthly fees will go to artists who contribute songs and their record companies.

Rhapsody's New e-Music Download Service Takes on iTunes

The subscription-music site Rhapsody (owned by RealNetworks (RNWK)) on Monday said it will start selling unprotected songs online as it tries to drum up sales and challenge the dominance of Apple Inc. (AAPL) and its popular iTunes service. Rhapsody previously offered consumers access to its library of 5 million songs for a monthly fee, but its service does not work on Apple's iPod. It also sold songs individually, though the music was encoded with anti-piracy DRM software. Under its new strategy, Rhapsody will sell music in an unprotected MP3 format and those songs will now be playable on an iPod or iPhone. The music will be compressed at a variable rate of 256 kilobits - double the rate used by iTunes for its DRM-encoded songs

Report: Deals Reached on Several Digital Music Royalty Issues

New York - The major players in contentious negotiations over digital music royalties, which pit music publishers, record labels and digital music services against one another, have reached a settlement on two of five major issues, Billboard reported, citing an account from David Israelite, president and CEO of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA).

Apple iPod Nano (PRODUCT) Red Special Edition

(Review) - As if the iPod Nano didn’t already have a number of flavors, Apple had to release a special edition just for kicks. You can think of the new iPod Nano (PRODUCT) Red as the U2 version of the Nano series. We can’t say we dislike the new (PRODUCT) Red, since it’s quite vibrant and rather unique, yet minimal. Also, the features and specifications are exactly the same as other Nano players, except the (PRODUCT) Red is made for a good cause, which we will get to later in the review.

Next Year's Madden, Others to Get Music Download Service

Joystiq is reporting that next year's version of Madden, and other subsequent EA games, will offer the ability to download new background music tracks. They have not yet said if this would be a pay-per-song service. "It might seem a bit silly for EA to offer a proprietary music download service when all current-gen consoles allow users to create their own custom soundtracks from their already-existing digital music collections. You have to realize, though, that EA needs to offer its own downloads so it can [...] gently suggest the latest hot track from Kid Rock to their captive audience of millions of players."

Music industry's war on piracy

Music traders in Australia are angry about the illegal downloading of music over the internet. This is cutting the profits of the music trade across the globe, and it is the same in Australia. Stephen Peach, of the Australian Music Industry group, is one of those deeply concerned about illegal downloading. He wants to see new measures to combat illegal downloading. Peach argues that ISPs should supply information about illegal downloading of music to officials. Legal digital downloading of music is becoming a global growth industry

Sky and Universal Music partner to launch subscription music streaming and download service

Sky has partnered with Universal Music to launch a subscription-based music service offering both streaming music and "keep forever" download tracks.

Sky and Universal Music partner to launch subscription music streaming and download service

Sky has partnered with Universal Music to launch a subscription-based music service offering both streaming music and "keep forever" download tracks.

Hip Digital Media Launches Custom Digital Music Store for Nectar

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, BUSINESS WIRE -- Hip Digital Media, the leading consumer experience network, and Nectar, the UK's leading loyalty card, today announced the launch of the Nectar Digital Music Store. Available for the first time from any Loyalty Program in the UK, music can be downloaded in a high quality Click for the lowest price on dmnobieblankmp3');" onMouseOut="setTimeout('hideLayer()',500);" class=hotlink2>MP3

EU finally cuts through licensing red tape for digital music

The European Commission wants online music stores across Europe to be fully stocked, and is eliminating certain restrictive policies imposed by royalty groups. EU regulators ordered 24 music societies across Europe to modify or ditch their agreements that bar music services from selling or broadcasting music across borders, forcing those services to set up individual storefronts for each of the EU's member states that may or may not carry all the same content. The groups have 120 days to make the changes, although the EU does not currently plan to impose fines for noncompliance.

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