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Microsoft drops the price of the Zune

The Zune Insider blog reports that the suggested retail price for Zune will reduced to $199 starting today.
It’s pure coincidence that Apple is having a special event today in San Francisco where it is speculated that new iPods will be launched and that Beatles music will finally become available on iTunes.
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AT&T adds eMusic to their Mobile Music Service

With subscriptions from Napster, Yahoo! Music Unlimited and now eMusic you can transfer your music from your computer to your AT&T cellphone. The list of compatible phones include AT&T 8525, BlackBerry Curve, Cingular 3125, LG CU500, Nokia N75, Samsung SYNC, Samsung BlackJack, Samsung a717, Sony Ericsson W300i and Sony Ericsson W810i. Notably absent from the […]

iTunes sells 3 billion songs

Apple announced today that the iTunes Store has sold more than 3 billion songs since it’s debut on April 28 2003. It took almost 3 years to sell the first billion songs, less than a year for the second billion, and now just six months for the third billion. Scraping together that first billion is […]

AOL Shuts Down Music Now Service

The current 350,000 AOL Music Now subscribers will be migrated to the Napster service keeping any music they have purchased. The monthly fee ($9.95) will remain the same.
According to reports the 350,000 subscriber base is 100,000 lower then when AOL acquired the Music Now service from Circuit City Stores in 2005.
After the recent announcement that […]

Virgin Digital shuts down its U.S. service

Richard Branson’s Virgin Digital has shut down its musicstore in the U.S. Over the holidays, Virgin Digital U.S. emailed subscribers informing them the service would be shutting down. Napster has acquired the exclusive right to market directly to Virgin’s existing subscribers.
Virgin Digital U.K. musicstore continues to operate.
Sources: The Hollywood Reporter, Variety
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