Here’s a story you haven’t heard before – a partnership has been formed to start a new music download service. Alright, maybe you have heard it seemingly every day, but this one is a little bit different. Nokia and EMI have partnered to launch bFree, their take on a music download service. What’s the unique part? Well this one is delivered by Bluetooth.

Nokia announced CoolZone, their localized content delivery service for retailers today and bFree will take advantage of the same technology. Basically, it would allow your neighborhood coffee shop to install a service point in their store. Once it is in place, customers could come into the shop and download songs while slurping down a latte.

A trial will initially be run in three coffee shops and three record stores in Helsinki. The downloads will be free during the trial, but a cost will obviously be associated if the business is rolled out to customers on a wider scale.

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Customers Can Instantly Purchase and Download Full Songs Over-the-Air Right to Their Phone When and Where They Want via the High-Speed Sprint Power Vision(SM) Network

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2005-- Sprint (NYSE:S - News) customers will be the first wireless customers in the U.S. to download full songs over-the-air. Today Sprint announced the opening of the Sprint Music Store(SM) powered by Groove Mobile, the first music store in the U.S. that lets wireless customers browse, preview, download, play and manage high-quality digital music, right from their phone. Sprint customers can now take their music with them on the go and have instant access to purchase and download music when they want to, not just when they are in front of a PC.

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Yahoo! announced to subscribers of its portable music subscription service that it will increase rental rates for the service on November 1. The company released its Music Unlimited subscription service in August after a three-month beta testing period. The service's debut prices were considerably lower than Yahoo!'s competitors' prices: US$4.99 per month for one year with unlimited downloads to a portable music device, and $6.99 on a month-to-month basis.

The new rates will be $9.99 per month with a one-year subscription and $11.99 month-to-month. However, these new rates only apply to the subscription service for downloading songs to mobile devices; users who only want access to play songs on their computers will still pay the lower prices. Yahoo! also says that it will honor one-year subscriptions made before November 1st at the lower rate.

The company gave no indication why it was increasing its rates, but the move is not a surprise to analysts. Many were saying that Yahoo!'s prices would not be able to stay so low without cutting steeply into the company's profits.

Source: geek.com

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Apple® today announced iTunes® 6, the next generation of the world’s most popular music jukebox and online music store. iTunes 6 lets fans purchase and download over 2,000 music videos and six short films from Academy-Award winning Pixar Animation Studios for just $1.99 each. Also, in a landmark deal with Disney, iTunes is now offering current and past episodes from two of the most popular shows on television, “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost,” as well as the new drama series “Night Stalker” and the two most popular shows from Disney Channel, “That’s So Raven” and “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody,” for just $1.99 per episode. Customers can now purchase and download their favorite television shows from iTunes the day after they air on TV, watch them on their Mac® or PC, and Auto-Sync them onto the new iPod® for viewing anywhere.

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Legal music downloads aren't limited to just chart music - we show you how to find your kind of music, and some of it is free

Will Stapley, Computeract!ve

Downloading music from the internet is a topic fraught with misconceptions. With all the stories about file sharing and illegal music downloads doing the rounds, you would be forgiven for thinking it is best to steer clear of the subject altogether.

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