August 9th, 2005 by Chi An
Wow, iTunes Music Store (iTMS) in Japan has just sold 1 million songs in just 4 days! This is the greatest startup in any of the 20 countries that iTunes Music Store made. The Japanese iTMS was just launched last thursday, 4th August 2005.
“We’ve had the No. 1 digital music player in Japan. And now we can say we have the No. 1 online music store in Japan,” said Eddy Cue, Apple Computer Inc. vice president of applications.
With just 4 days, iTMS is outperformed than Sony Corp’s online music store. It is around 450,000 songs downloaded
per month through the Sony Corp’s online music store.
It’s time for Sony to make some changes! Will Sony join the iTMS?
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CBS News via
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August 4th, 2005 by Chi An
As reported before, Apple has launched its iTunes Music Store (iTMS) in Japan on 4th Aug 2005! At the press conference at Tokyo, Steve Jobs announced that iTMS is live with million songs in AAC format.
These songs are from 15 record companies, where 90% of them are sold for
150Yen (approx US$1.35) each and the less are
200Yen (approx US$1.80) each.
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July 18th, 2005 by Chi An
I never wonder it would be that fast. Apple iTunes Music Store had just sold the 500 millionth song! It’s not only the milestone of Apple but the whole digital music industry.
Amy Greer from Lafayette, Indiana won the grand prize. Amy purchased the 500 millionth song - Mississippi Girl by Faith Hill.
Who else won the 100,000 song prizes?
Check it out!
Congratulation to all of the winners 
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Apple’s iTunes }
July 16th, 2005 by Chi An
Have you ever purchased music online? Now you have a chance to win some attractive prizes while purchase legal music from Apple iTunes Music Stores!
Apple gonna reach a remarkable milestone of its
iTunes Music Store,
500 million songs downloaded! To celebrate this milestone, Apple decides to give away attractive prizes for the lucky owner of 500 millionth song.
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July 14th, 2005 by Chi An
I’d just realized that today is MP3’s 10th birthday! On 14 July 1995, Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute chose to use the .mp3 extension for files holding audio data encoded using the MPEG standard’s Audio Layer 3 specification. The MPEG Audio Layer 3 codec was standardised in 1992.
Fraunhofer researcher Juergen Zeller broke the news ten years ago in the following email, provided by the Institute today:
Date: Fri, 14 July 1995 12:29:49 +0200
Reference: Endings for Layer3: mp3
Hello,_according to the overwhelming opinion of all asking: the ending for ISO MPEG audio Layer 3 is mp3.
i.e. we should for coming www sides, Shareware,_Demos, etc. on it respect that no more bit endings rausgehen.
It has a reason, believes me : -)
Juergen Zeller
A thank to Fraunhofer Institute, who brings these wonderful file extension to us. Today, MP3 still remains its unbeatable popularity among the digital audio file formats. Indirectly, the MP3 brings us to the world of P2P. Remember Napster? Although it lost the lawsuit against RIAA, the crowds are still heading to the P2P technology.
Happy birthday, MP3!
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