mycokemusic.co.uk (Coca-Cola music site) fails on first day!
LONDON, UK (Evening Standard) - Coca-Cola's foray into the world of online music sales got off to a bad start when its website failed to launch. Users who visited mycokemusic.com expecting to access its 250,000 tracks were left disappointed. The site still carries the banner "mycokemusic.com goes live ...
| Coca-Cola music website offers download albums for £6.40!!!
LONDON, UK (MyCokeMusic.com / Coca Cola UK Website) - Drinks giant Coca-Cola is to offer albums for download on its new music website for as little as �6.40. Singles will cost from 80p on mycokemusic.com, which launches on Monday. The company says it will have the largest collection of legal downloads ...
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iTunes is one of the hottest web services
LOS ANGELES (Web Watch) - Innovation flowered online this year, some three years after dot-coms started dying in the wake of the Internet investment bubble bursting. Here is a short list of what Web Watch considered some of the hottest Internet services in 2003, along with their new or improved features: ...
| Americans are getting away from the internet for music
NEW YORK (PEW Internet & American Life Project Website) - A new report says the percentage of Americans who download music online has been sliced in half. Fourteen percent of internet users surveyed said they sometimes download songs. That's according to the report by the PEW Internet and American Life ...
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Justice Dept. closes Net music antitrust scrutiny
NEW YORK (CNet) - After more than two years of quiet investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that it is closing its antitrust scrutiny of the major record labels' online activities, without filing charges. When originally revealed in mid-2001, the regulators' investigation was said ...
| Kazaa is legal!
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Kazaa press release) - The Supreme Court of the Netherlands yesterday reaffirmed that it is lawful to make the filesharing software KaZaA publicly available. This court is the first Supreme Court or other national high court ruling on the legality of peer-to-peer technologies ...
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Wal-Mart begins offering downloaded music
NEW YORK (Wal-Mart press release) - Wal-Mart has begun an offering of songs for downloading, for 88 cents per cut. There is no subscription fee for the service. But the price isn't the most competitive for singles on the web and also it can't hit the iTunes Store: this price of 88 cents is only for ...
| Coldplay release Pretenders' 2,000 miles for Christmas!
NEW YORK (Coldplay Official Website) - Rock band Coldplay are offering their fans a chance to download a seasonal song and give money to charity this Christmas. Singer Chris Martin, who recently married actress Gwyneth Paltrow, has recorded an acoustic version of the Pretenders song 2,000 Miles. It ...
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Apple store tops 25 million mp3 songs!
NEW YORK (iTunes) - Apple's online music store has hit a new high, selling more than 25 million songs since its launch in April. The 25 millionth song purchased on Friday was Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! by Frank Sinatra. The iTunes service offers songs for 99 cents (60 pence) each, which ...
| Internet users downloads 'singles' and kills the albums category
LONDON, UK (NPD Group) - Internet music users are more likely to download singles than full albums, research has suggested. NPD Group tracked useage by both legitimate online music retail stores like iTunes and file-sharing services. The results suggested that consumers downloading from the web took ...
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Mycokemusic.com: Coke moves into online music!
LONDON, UK (Coca Cola announcement) - Just a week after it signed a controversial sponsorship deal involving Top of the Pops, Coca-Cola is muscling in on record retailers by launching its own music download service in the UK! The drinks giant will offer music fans the chance to download everything from ...
| iTunes hacked?
NEW YORK (Windows files & news Website) - All Microsoft people are having a smiling face last days! The execs at Apple must be loooking over their shoulders these days as it appears nothing is 100% safe (and not only the Windows O/S). A 19-year-old Norwegian hacker John Lech Johansen has discovered ...
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The biggest global charity event on the net ever!
LONDON, UK (Radio 1/46664 websites) - Nelson Mandela's Aids Day Concert is to be webcast globally live and free on Saturday, in what will be the world's biggest charity event on the net. The concert kicks off the 46664 campaign to raise HIV/Aids awareness through music. Each song performed by stars ...
| A broadband jukebox launched with over 2 million tracks
NEW YORK (Inspired Broadcast Networks press release) - Inspired Broadcast Networks, the digital division of leisure giant, Leisure Link, and Entertainment UK, the Europe's largest music distributor are out to change the jukebox's market decline. Together they have built a jukebox that can instantly ...
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Microsoft music store to open next year
NEW YORK (TechNews online journal) - Microsoft's timing may be good. Music companies finally seem to have realized the potential of the online music market. At the same time, lawsuits are having a chilling effect on free download use, sending more users to paid Microsoft Corp. plans to offer music downloading ...
| Apple says iTunes store sold five times more songs than Napster
LOS ANGELES (Apple press release) - According to Apple Computer, its iTunes online music store sold five times more songs than rival Napster's service in its first week of operation. iTunes fans purchased and downloaded 1.5 million songs from its iTunes Music Store during the same period that Napster ...
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US downloads beat CD sales
NEW YORK (Technology Forum) - Music fans in the US are buying almost twice as many singles in digital form over the internet as they are on CDs from stores, according to a report. Some 7.7 million tracks were bought and downloaded since the end of June - compared with four million CD singles sold reported. ...
| Napster is offering single tracks for 99 cents and albums for $9.95
NEW YORK (TechNews Forums) - Napster, the pioneering song-swapping internet service, is returning to business on Wednesday after two years. A legal version of the service, renamed Napster 2.0, will become available to customers in the US who will now have to pay for downloading music. The original Napster ...
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Europeans preffers EDonkey P2P client which is overtaking KaZaA!
GENEVA, Switzerland (Sandvine website) - While FastTrack-based file sharing applications like KaZaA continue to dominate in North America, Europeans are evincing their own unique patterns and preferences, both in terms of their favorite peer-to-peer (P2P) clients and the types of content they choose ...
| Apple partners with AOL - Amazon future?
NEW YORK (Macworld Website) - "Apple is clearly the leader in online music today - but what else should we be doin?" asked Apple CEO Steve Jobs last night. "Partnership", he answered, announcing Apple's alliance with AOL in the US - under which AOL subscribers will be able to access the iTunes Music ...
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