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Sony keeps flip-flopping over adding music downloads to the PlayStation Network .

Sony confirmed yesterday that they plan to launch an online media store in order to sell music, movies, and books for use on a variety of products.

For entertainment hardware companies like Sony, a thriving, all-encompassing online media store is the Holy Grail.

Iran's election protests, the shutdown of Napster and the 2008 US presidential campaign have been named amongst the top 10 Internet moments of the 2000s.

This is not a surprise considering the continued decline of Rhapsody music service in the face of lots of new competition and the general malaise in the digital music market: MTV and RealNetworks are talking about restructuring their Rhapsody America music JV, according to an SEC filing just filed by RNWK.

In September, Apple performed the now-yearly ritual of updating its iPod lineup in anticipation of the upcoming holiday season.

It's happened to the best of us: a hard drive crash takes our precious iTunes library down to Davy Jones' Locker, and we either don't have backups, or our backups are corrupted or out of date.

Connected Life' study, which asked 2,000 UK internet users about their favourite services, found 60% of music users stream music directly from the internet.

Los Angeles' premiere metal band, Steel Panther , has been igniting both the Sunset and Las Vegas Strips with their outrageous stage presence and attire as the greatest metal show ever! The lead track on the band's major label debut from Universal Republic Records FEEL THE STEEL, "Death to All but Metal," will be available as an iTunes "Single of ...

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You might wonder what anything with "iTunes" in the title is doing on a site called Anything but iPod.

When it comes to selling a song online, 30 cents means a lot. Sales of hit songs in Apple's iTunes store have dipped 6 percent since April, in part due to a new variable song pricing structure that has driven up the price of most hits to $1.29, data from a new study by Billboard's Glenn Peoples shows.

Mark/Space, creator of award-winning desktop and handheld synchronization software, announced the release of GoGadget for webOS.

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For better or worse, iTunes and the iTunes Store have become a ubiquitous part of the digital media experience.

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Cypress Semiconductor Corp is introducing an upgraded module for its West Bridge peripheral controllers that offers fast sideloading solution for transfer of multimedia files from a PC to handheld device via the Media Transfer Protocol , the provider of mixed-signal, programmable solutions said on Wednesday.

The promise of the digital revolution in the music industry takes another step forward with the creation today of Interscope Digital Distribution , by Interscope/Geffen/A&M Records.

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Written by Richard MacManus / November 11, 2009 1:22 AM / It's November 2009 and we're nearing the end of a decade.