Forget Apple - Lets Speculate About the Microsoft Zune - Selected quote from thusly titiled New York Times article: “I have a wobbly table. The Zune fits perfectly under the broken leg,” said Richard Doherty, a consumer electronics industry market researcher with Envisioneering.
In other Zune news, MS is apparently coming out with a 120GB model. This has to be targeted at video users.
We7 Gets EMI - Streaming Only - Billboard reports: UK ad-supported digital music service We7 has added content from EMI Music Group under a new licensing deal. Like it's deals with Sony BMG and Warner Music Group, the pact allows We7 to stream full songs supported by audio ads, and lets fans buy DRM-free downloads on an a la carte basis. We7 originally proposed making downloads available for free, supported by embedding audio ads into the downloaded file, but labels have been wary of adopting that approach. The EMI deal covers about 400,000 tracks, including those by We7 founding investor Peter Gabriel.
Gee, what a surprise. The genuises running the labels are cutting off the most potentially lucrative part of the ad-supported music market.
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