Tag: AMAZON-MP3

I love a good price war. And it looks like Walmart is challenging Amazon and Apple to one by offering select MP3 downloads from Walmart's online music store for just 74 cents. Not every song will go for that price, but standard tracks start at 94 cents per song, which is still cheaper than music on iTunes. Amazon typically sells MP3 music for between 89 and 99 cents per song. Walmart is also ...

There's a saying that "advertising abhors a vacuum." In other words, if there's a blank space on a wall, telephone poll, or the back of your eyelids, eventually someone will figure out how to put an advertisement there. With that in mind, Google has rolled out two new features this week intended to help fill the vacuum. First up, the company continues to try to justify its massive investment in ...

As you may have heard, T-Mobile has announced the first phone running Google's Android operating system. But an OS is only as good as its applications. And while it remains to be seen whether Android has the killer apps it needs to take on Apple, Microsoft, Symbian, and RIM, the T-Mobile G1 has some pretty good ones including access to Google's mobile search, maps, Gmail, contact, calendar, and ...

Amazon offers one of the most compelling iTunes competitors around right now. The online retailer offers music downloads from all four major labels. And unlike Apple's iTunes, Microsoft's Zune Marketplace and other digital music stores, Amazon MP3 offers DRM-free music at reasonable prices. There's just one problem -- the service doesn't work outside of the US. Yet. For months, Amazon has been ...

Been so busy trying to buy Pope bobble-head dolls on eBay that you've fallen behind on the week's software news? We've got your back. Here are some of our favorite stories from the past week. Comcast shuts down Dave Winer Ever wonder if those unlimited bandwidth internet service plans are really unlimited? Tech analyst Dave Winer found out the hard way that there's unlimited, and then there's ...

Amazon has announced plans to take its Amazon MP3 store global sometime in 2008. No word on whether that means February or December, but we'll keep you posted. Amazon currently offers DRM-free MP3 tracks from all four major music labels, something no other digital music store can boast. That's 3.3 million songs from over 270,000 artists. But if you live outside of the US, good luck actually ...

Apparently Sony's plan for DRM-free music distribution isn't quite as dumb as we thought. Sure, the music label's announcement that it would sell DRM-free music was quickly followed by the news that you'd have to walk into a bricks and mortar retail store and buy a gift card allowing you to download an album's worth of tracks from the web. But it turns out that's not the only way to get DRM-free ...

Amazon and Pepsi are planning to launch a yearlong promotion to give away 1 billion MP3s from Amazon's recently launched MP3 download store. The promotion will launch during the Super Bowl on Feb 3rd. Here's how it works. Pepsi will print a code on 5 billion bottle caps. You can use the codes from 5 bottle caps to buy one song at Amazon Mp3. Right now, that means you can buy DRM-free tracks from ...

Amazon has opened the virtual doors to its digital music store. Amazon MP3 sells DRM-free files, but you're clever, so you probably guessed that by the name. And the fact that we've been telling you about Amazon's plans to launch a DRM-free MP3 download site for months. Now that a beta version of the site is live, here's what we can tell you. Amazon has signed a deal with EMI, Universal, and ...