Posts Tagged ‘ music ’

Sony to Shut Down CD Manufacturing Plant

January 21, 2011
Sony to Shut Down CD Manufacturing Plant

Located in Pitman, New Jersey are just under 9,400 residents, a historical museum, the University of Glassboro, and one of two CD manufacturing plants owned and operated by Sony. Come March 31, 2011, you can scratch that last one off the list, CNet rep…

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Spotify, Sony Ink U.S. Distribution Deal

January 20, 2011
Spotify, Sony Ink U.S. Distribution Deal

Spotify once set a goal of infiltrating the U.S. market before the end of 2010, which on hindsight turned out to be overly ambitious. Perhaps the first half of 2011 will prove a bit more reasonable.
The European streaming music service isn’t bound for …

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Nokia Ditches Subscription Music Service

January 17, 2011
Nokia Ditches Subscription Music Service

Nokia’s music subscription service was seen as an iTunes competitor when it launched in 2008. Now here we are just a few years later, and Nokia has made to call to discontinue the service, branded as either Comes with Music or Ovi Music Unlimited, in a…

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Supreme Court Refuses to Red Light Antitrust Case Against Music Labels

January 11, 2011
Supreme Court Refuses to Red Light Antitrust Case Against Music Labels

“Suck it up, buttercup, you’re going to have to defend your actions.” The Supreme Court didn’t word things that it way, but it might as well have when it refused to review a ruling that reinstated an antitrust lawsuit accusing major record labels of co…

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Sony Throws Hat into Subscription Music Service Ring

December 22, 2010
Sony Throws Hat into Subscription Music Service Ring

Hey, just what the world needs, another subscription streaming music service, right? Not exactly, but it’s getting one anyway, this time courtesy of Sony, Yahoo News reports.
Sony’s “Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity” is based entirely in the cloud, …

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Users Report Trouble with Latest iTunes Update

December 16, 2010
Users Report Trouble with Latest iTunes Update

Apple this week released the 10.1.1 update for iTunes which was designed to fix crashing issues, and in an ironic twist, some users report they’re unable to open iTunes after applying the update, Apple Insider reports.
Of course, some of you are thinki…

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Tech Tips: 15 Ways to Make iTunes Rock

December 14, 2010
Tech Tips: 15 Ways to Make iTunes Rock

It’s hard to imagine that one could really tweak or improve iTunes in any particular fashion. I say that not because the software is perfect, rather, because it’s completely closed-source. Apple doesn’t have a list of extensions that yo…

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Will Spotify Ever Launch in the U.S.?

December 8, 2010
Will Spotify Ever Launch in the U.S.?

We’ve been hearing for months that Spotify, a European music service that offers both a free streaming service and a paid subscription model, would launch in the U.S. by the end of the year, but guess what? The end of the year is only three-and-a-ha…

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