Vodafone in a music distribution deal with Warner
Vodafone has now become the only mobile service provider to have deals with all the major music labels to distribute their music over the air to customers.
The company has just signed a deal with Warner Music Group competing the formalities.
Vodafone get the rights to [...]
SpiralFrog goes down
SpiralFrog was one of the many digital media services that was launched with the aim of providing free music to web users.
Looks like the experiment has failed as the company has now closed down its operations.
The service was designed to supply free music to listeners as long as they were ok [...]
Latest Apple iPod Shuffle has more DRM inbuilt
EFF has reported that the just launched Apple iPod Shuffle comes loaded more hardware based DRM restrictions.
Apple has moved the controls on this player from the device itself to the headphones.
As a result, users would not be able to control the player if they use third [...]
Apple allowing single song upgrade on iTunes Plus
Apple is now allowing iTunes user to upgrade individual tracks to DRM-free iTunes Plus format.
When the service was launched, they just allowed the user to convert their entire library.
This new feature addition would help customers save money on tracks they do not want upgraded for [...]
Apple iTunes to offer more DRM free music at variable prices
Apple has announced plans to offer all music DRM free on their Apple iTunes digital media store.
The company has also now introduced variable pricing on the media available on the store.
Apple said that the music files are now available in three price points: 69 [...]
Electronlibre: Apple iTunes to become more DRM free music
A French site Electronlibre has reported that Apple is all set to add more DRM free music options on its Apple iTunes digital media store.
The report said that DRM free music from major record labels Sony-BMG, Warner, and Universal Music would be added sometime today.
The website [...]
Microsoft Zune: 10 free songs per month on subscription service!
Microsoft has announced a new scheme for users on their Zune digital media store.
Users are being offered 10 free songs every month if they subscribe to the monthly service worth USD 14.99.
This new offer is aimed at users who do not like going for [...]
Wal-Mart relaunches MP3 Store
US based retailing giant Wal-Mart has announced the relaunch of its MP3 store.
The newly revamped store is now a stronger challenger to Amazon MP3 store.
Apple iTunes remains the market leader despite continuing to sell DRM loaded songs.
Prices of songs on the Wal-Mart store range between 74-94 cent. This is a bit [...]
Netflix brings streaming video service to Apple Macs
Netflix has announced that they are now supporting Apple Macs with their streaming video service.
They are using Microsoft Silverlight technology for this service.
The company claimed that the Silverlight technology enables them to provide breakthrough navigation for fast-forward and rewind.
The technology would however work only on Intel processor powered [...]
Wal-Mart to keep their DRM servers online
US based retailing giant Wal-Mart recently became the latest operator of digital media store to go DRM free.
This was bad news for the customers of the service who had previously both DRM enabled media.
Wal-Mart warned the users that they would shut down the DRM servers which would [...]
