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Once you enter the Big Tent of Apple, it's exceedingly hard to find the exit. Over its 33-year history, Apple has consistently elected to limit consumer choice, creating a situation known as "lock in." As soon as you start buying stuff from Apple, you'll find it difficult to move to products made by someone else without losing everything you've ...

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The complete remastered library of Beatles music is finally reaching legal electronic presentation.

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I've got spurs that jingle, Jaangle, jingle... And my boots smell a lot like Teen Spirit.

Dave Grohl, Joshua Homme and John Paul Jones - are offering a free download of "Mind Eraser, No Chaser," from their forthcoming self-titled CD due out Nov.

Last week, a music site called BlueBeat made headlines by offering Beatles songs as free streams and 25 cent downloads .

Beatles record label EMI is suing U.S. music website BlueBeat.com, which it said was offering unauthorized downloads of the Fab Four's tracks for sale.

Sony Creative Software , a provider of professional video and audio production applications, has released 1,000 Ringtones, a DVD containing ringtones grouped into three categories: music, sound effects, and spoken words and phrases.

HMV is expanding beyond its brick-and-mortar stores to compete online with iTunes for Canadians' digital dollars.

DENVER a ' MTV Urge ... Yahoo Music Unlimited ... Virgin Digital ... Since 2003 -- when iTunes launched in the United States -- all of these digital music services have come and gone, without challenging Apple's market dominance, despite the backing of resource-rich parent companies.

The Beatles announced Wednesday they will release their music catalog digitally in December, but the iconic group's songs are still not due for release on iTunes.

Critics frequently attach the phrase "lock-in" to Apple's iTunes Store - iTunes - iPod/iPhone combination.

There's a reason the critics are raving about Glee , and it's not its hard-hitting approach to tackling teen issues.

For years, we've been hearing about iPod killers, iTunes wannabes, and new music services.

Best Buy on Tuesday is expected to announce its own movie download service for consumer electronics sold in its stores.

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Record company EMI is urgently investigating how The Beatles' entire back catalogue has been made available to buy digitally for the first time ever on a US website.