Music Download Industry News

The music download industry keeps evolving, as moreNseries customers. They plan to launch a music
players enter the game and alliances are formed withindownload service of their own sometime this year, and
a blink of an eye. We're all aware of AT&T partneringwith their free Wi-Fi campaign, more and more
with giant Apple Inc. to promote the iPhone, which ofAustralian-based Nokia users will be more apt to try it
course uses iTunes for its ringtone capabilities. Asout come launch time.
more mobile phones encompass multimedia functions,Telecommunications companies and mobile phone
the music and telecommunications industries areservice providers aren't the only ones switching up the
realizing their unfolding opportunities to meld together.music download industry. reports that Amazon's
AT&T and Napster, one of the original music downloadnewest service, AmazonMP3, is offering lower prices
services, are joining together and providing directon individual songs and albums than some of their
download capabilities, according to CNNMoney. In ancompetitors, such as iTunes.
effort to avoid mobile-to- PC connections to transferTheir 2-million some music collection stands out in that
music files, direct downloads are growing in popularity.its music files are DRM-free and iTunes and Windows
More mobile phone owners are using their cell phonesMultimedia Player-compatible. Though competition
as MP3 players, not to mention the added benefit ofamongst music download providers is inevitable,
using downloads as ringtones.anyone with a mobile phone or MP3 player will
Similarly, in Australia, Nokia is stepping up to the plate incontinue to be exposed to countless options.
music downloads, providing free Wi-Fi zones for Nokia