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When Amazon launched its Cloud Drive service in March, basic service originally came with 5GB of free space to store your music as well as a music player for the Web and Android devices. This week, Amazon rolled out a promotion that offers Cloud Drive users unlimited music storage, in addition to 20GB of storage space for a cost of $20 a year. Music file types included in the promotion are MP3 and AAC files. In addition, any Amazon MP3 music… Read More

Finland's Nokia today took the wraps off three new XpressMusic mobile phone handsets, aiming to prove that consumers will opt for a device which combined phone capabilities with the features of a dedicated music player. The Nokia XpressMusic 5300 stores tunes on a microSD expansion card (which Nokia says amounts to about 1,500 tracks on a 2 GB card) and offers dedicates music keys which enable users to control music playback while… Read More

At the CommunicAsia 2006 trade fair in Singapore, electronics maker Samsung displayed a trio of new ultra-slim mobile handsets. Two of the models have been announced previously for Asian markets, but Samsung seems poised to offer these tri-band and quad-band models to U.S. carriers post haste

Yahoo! Music offers streaming audio, music videos, Internet radio, news and downloadable music files. Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a wideband audio coding algorithm that exploits two primary coding strategies to dramatically reduce the amount of data needed to convey high-quality digital audio. Nero's proprietary AAC Codec is built on proven proficiency in AAC technology, but goes much further with significant efficiency and quality… Read More