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...Germany, offering a wider selection of songs for less money ($1.44 each). In its first week in Europe alone, iTunes sold 800,000 tracks. Napster and the Sony Connect store also have competing music sites, and WalMart and EasyGroup, parent company of EasyJet, are looking to launch their music-download services. Coke execs are debuting their site in Austria and promoting it heavily on the sides of cans, but they must be wishing for the days when Pepsi was all they had to worry about. --By Chris Taylor...
iTunes is a good music shop with some 700,000 songs available for download. But the Real Music Store (available at real.com is a smart alternative, with some 625,000 songs of its own and several unique features. If you're a Beyonce fan, for example, the store will help you find other artists you might like by listing contemporaries, followers and influences. You can also watch more than 1,100 free music videos via the Real Music Guide, vs. about 200 on iTunes. Both stores sell singles for 99� and most albums for $9.99, but album prices can vary...
File sharing was the craze first started by Napster, the software that allowed users to download popular music from other people’s computers...
Once the website is set up, other Wirehog users can download files to their own computers...
...failed pitches, Paananen managed to convince Finnish operator Radiolinja that ring tones could help workers in open-plan offices distinguish their own incoming calls from those of others. So in the fall of 1998, Radiolinja launched the world's first commercially available ring-tone service, allowing users to download songs like Smoke on the Water and the Finnish national anthem. An industry was born, and last year about 2.6 billion ring tones - those musical ditties that sound off when a mobile phone receives a call - were downloaded worldwide, one-third of them in Japan. Delivered by the Internet or text...