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October launch for Amazon music download service

By admin • Jun 24th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story, Music and itunes

According to BrandRepublic, Amazon is looking to launch their MP3 music download service in the UK before October this year as executives from the US Amazon store holds meetings in London with record companies.
The Amazon MP3 download service launched in the US last year, allowing their users to download tracks that are DRM free and […]



Is a teenager with an iPod a criminal?

By admin • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: Apple iPod, Lead Story, Music and itunes

According to the largest academic study undertaken in the UK on young people’s music ownership the average teenagers iPod or digital music player contains over 800 illegally copied songs.



Finally iTunes movies for UK movie lovers

By admin • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: Music and itunes

BBC recently reported that Apple will be starting to offer movies for renting or purchasing through iTunes in the UK.
This is a service that has been available in the US for a while now, but now it will also come to the UK. In the beginning they will offer about 700 titles, including about 100 […]



Napster returns to challenge iTunes with 6million songs

By admin • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Music and itunes

Since its famous beginning offering free music downloads, Napster is now completely legit and now they are taking on the giant in iTunes.
Napster has lately been focusing on offering all-you-can-eat monthly streaming music subscribtions, but like many others they have realised that people like to have the freedom to add their music to their favourite […]



Sex and the city on iTunes - but not in the UK!

By admin • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Music and itunes

It didn’t take long after Microsoft announced that famous HBO shows like ‘Sex and the City‘, ‘The Wire‘ and ‘The Sopranos‘ would be available from their download store until Apple could announce that the shows would be available to download through iTunes as well.
So if you are looking to freshen up on ‘Sex and the […]



Myspace challenges itunes with new deal

By admin • Apr 6th, 2008 • Category: Music and itunes

In a move to for sure capitalize on the enormous user base of their social networking service, Myspace has gone into a partnership with 3 out of the 4 major record labels to deliver a music service online that will compete with Apple itunes.
Myspace Music will offer the user free music and video streaming supported […]



Apple releases update for itunes version 7.6.2

By admin • Apr 3rd, 2008 • Category: Music and itunes

Apple has just recently released update 7.6.2 for iTunes, which is the latest version of their digital media management application.
According to Apple the update release includes bug fixes to improve stability and performance. From reading some of the comments online about this update it looks like it has fixed the bug where the last few […]



Apple considering free music for ipod through itunes

By admin • Mar 19th, 2008 • Category: Apple iPod, Music and itunes

This story has been all over the internet today, about Apple looking into the possibilities of a premier itunes service for ipod owners where music will be made available for free. Sounds great doesn’t it.
According to the Financial Times, Apple is currently in discussions with major music labels about a new subscription model that will […]



Rumour of possible myspace mp3 download service

By admin • Feb 22nd, 2008 • Category: Music and itunes

According to news source MP3.com, MySpace is looking into the possibilities of launching their own music store to rival itunes and the soon to be launched music service from Amazon.
The social network giant owned by News Corp is reportedly in talks with the four major record labels on a new ad-supported music service targeting the […]



Album of the week: Outlandish “Closer than veins”

By admin • Feb 18th, 2008 • Category: Music and itunes

The Danish trio Outlandish released their first album back in 2000 (Outland’s official) which received critical acclaim for songs like ‘Walou’. Since then they have released one more studio album ‘Bread & Barrels of water’ in 2002, which included songs like ‘Guantanamo’ and ‘Aicha’. Although their style of music has its base in American hip […]