The MP3 Players

With the partnership, Napster will provide its music store but Ericsson brings a critical software application along with relationships with wireless phone operators in 130 countries. This services will be available on all music-enable wireless phones, not just Sony Ericsson.

The service will allow users to download and access music files via wireless technology such as mobile phones and via personal computers. It will also offer ring tones, master tones, images, wallpaper and video content.

The service will be introduced in Europe over the next 12 months and will be offered to operators in select markets in Europe, Asia, Latin America and North America, Ericsson said.

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Major Japanese record companies, including Columbia Music Entertainment Inc., Avex Group Holdings Inc. and Toshiba-EMI Ltd., have agreed to provide songs for the service. However, Sony Corp.’s Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. has yet to agree on contract terms with Apple, it said.

Apple has sold nearly half of billion songs in 19 countries since the launch of iTunes in the United States two years ago.

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The Live All Summer from Sauza includes free music download give aways, live concert dates and iRiver portable MP3 players. It is run until October 31, 2005. Participants of the promotion must be at least 21-year-old.

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Vietnam will, for the first time, provide more than 10,000 songs protected by copyright for online listening and downloading to local users.

Vietnam Music Copyright Protection Center has agreed to provide copyrighted songs for FPT Corporation under the website nhacSoO.net. This will be the first and the largest online legal music network in the country. The users may listen to the songs on the website for free, but they will be charged to dowbload the songs.

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This is a good sign to legalize the online music especially in ASEAN countries, where the intellecture properties are in so important for them. I wonder how Malaysian government deal with illegal music download.

Of course, Chapin isn’t saying how to pull it off. Chapin says the flaw is simple enough, so simple in fact, that it is easier to download the free, stolen track than to pay for it. Making this more useful, the stolen music is not truly from the Yahoo Music Unlimited service, but rather the music that costs 79 cents per song and comes without any copy protection or restrictions.

P2Pnet says they received an email from Yahoo where Yahoo indicated that after seeing what the problem is, they have determined that it does not expose any sensitive user information, just free music, so that it is not serious, although they are looking into how to fix it. Looks like Yahoo has its priorities in the right place.

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