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Highlighting the company's new partnership with Apple which will provide iPhone and iPod touch users with free Wi-Fi access to the iTunes music store, coffee retailer Starbucks is planning to give away millions of cards good for selected songs from Apple's iTunes store. Starbucks says it plans to give away 1.5 million downloads per day from October 2 through November 7 at more than 10,000 Starbucks locations in the United… Read More

Apple today launched iTunes Plus, a new addition to its existing iTunes service which offers AAC music tracks from major label EMI at 256 Kbps encoding (twice the rate of standard iTunes purchases) at $1.29 per track—and without Apple's FairPlay digital rights management (DRM) technology. That means users can play iTunes Plus tracks on any music player (or using any application) which supports AAC encoding, rather than the tracks… Read More

Amazon.com has announced it plans to launch a digital music store later this year offering music from EMI Music and over 12,000 other music labels for sale in DRM-free, MP3 format. The move follows EMI's announcement last month that it would be offering its entire music catalog via Apple's iTunes service in a DRM-free AAC format—at a premium price, although at twice the resolution of FairPlay-protected downloads.… Read More