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Apple Pressuring Music Labels To Drop Amazon's MP3 Daily Deal Scheme

Apple Pressuring Music Labels To Drop Amazon's MP3 Daily Deal Scheme

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Music magazine Billboard has reported that iPhone maker Apple Inc. has advised several music labels against taking taking part in Amazon MP3 Daily Deal, threatening to remove marketing support for their releases from its popular iTunes online music store if they do so. According to an anonymous music executive talking to Billboard, when Amazon first launched its  Daily Deal back in 2008, its sole purpose was to direct web traffic towards its online MP3 store and...



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Noon News: Google Adds New Feature To Gmail, Tablet Version Of Windows, Amazon Call Centre In Edinburgh

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Google has introduced a new feature to its Gmail email service that aggregates and displays the communication with a particular contact. The Gmail ‘people widget’, which will be rolled out globally in the next few...


Lady Gaga’s Album Deal Overwhelms Amazon MP3 Store

Lady Gaga’s Album Deal Overwhelms Amazon MP3 Store

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The surge in the number of people looking to purchase Lady Gaga’s newest album brought Amazon’s web service down on its knees with many experiencing slow download times.Users reported slow response and download times...


Sony Warns Amazon Over Cloud Player Music Service

Sony Warns Amazon Over Cloud Player Music Service

News Consumer

Amazon's newly launched Cloud Player music streaming service has come under attack by record label Sony Music for operating without the required licenses. According to a report on Reuters, Sony's stance over the new music...


Amazon offers music storage in the Cloud

Amazon offers music storage in the Cloud

Bits locker in the sky

News Business & Government

Online retailer Amazon has launched a cloud-based storage service dubbed Amazon Cloud Drive, along with a music player it calls Amazon Cloud Player for Web. The outfit is promoting the storage service as a way of...


News@10: Apple iOS 4.1, Amazon Acquires Amie Street & Google

News@10: Apple iOS 4.1, Amazon Acquires Amie Street & Google

News Consumer

Google has is now allowing Yahoo users to sign-in to Google services by using OpenID. By using the OpenID technology, Yahoo users will be able to sign-in and access Google services such as Gmail, Docs, Google Groups and Google...


Amazon Brings Android MP3 Service To UK

Amazon Brings Android MP3 Service To UK

News Software

Amazon’s much-awaited online music service, dubbed as “Amazon MP3”, would now be available to the UK users having Android-powered smartphone.  The service has already been available to the Android users in...


Amazon, Rhapsody Follow iTunes, Adopt Variable Pricing

Amazon, Rhapsody Follow iTunes, Adopt Variable Pricing

News Software

The whole online music industry across the pond seems to have diligently followed the footsteps of iTunes, the industry leader, as they all seems to have adopted variable pricing. Wal-mart, Amazon and Rhapsody have, according to...


Comment : Apple Went Too Far With Variable Pricing In iTunes

Comment : Apple Went Too Far With Variable Pricing In iTunes

News Mobile & Telco

Apple's announcement that it is going to apply different prices to different iTunes tracks depending on their popularity sheds an interesting light on the media company's relationship with its audience and the content...


Amazon Debuts Online Gaming Download Service

Amazon Debuts Online Gaming Download Service

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Amazon has joined the league of online digital game providers by launching a new online store aimed at catering to the needs of casual gaming enthusiasts.  Incidentally the new store boasts of a surprisingly large...


Apple Bows To Popular Demand; iTunes Goes DRM Free

Apple Bows To Popular Demand; iTunes Goes DRM Free

News Mobile & Telco

Apple will zap Digital Rights Management protection from all songs on iTunes which will remove one of the most persistent criticisms attached to Apple's online music service; the fact that tracks are "infected" with DRM and...


10 Alternative UK Online Music Stores To Amazon MP3 and iTunes

10 Alternative UK Online Music Stores To Amazon MP3 and iTunes

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Amazon MP3 is currently the greatest threat to the hegemony of Apple and its iTunes store which owns up to 70 percent of the worldwide legal online music market, making it by far the biggest music retailer. But while Amazon MP3...


Amazon Launches UK MP3 Store To Rival Apple's iTunes But Still No Podcast!

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After nearly six months of gestation, Amazon has finally released its competitor to Apple's iTunes store, Amazon MP3, which unlike its popular rival is free of any Digital Rights Management scheme. The online retailer offers...


Play.com Removes DRM From Tracks, Goes Against iTunes and Amazon

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EMI, Sony BMG, Warner Music, Universal Music and a number of other independent labels have now all signed with Online Etailer Play.com to offer their tracks without any Digital Rights Management "protection". Although not the...


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Myspace is partnering with Amazon to offer millions of songs for free online supported by advertising as part of a complete relift of its music service. US-based Users of the Social networking website will be able to stream free...


Amazon To Launch UK Online MP3 Music Download Store Imminently

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Amazon is on track to launch its first MP3 music download store outside UK next month after the news were first announced in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper back in June 2008. The online retailer plans to compete with Apple's...

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