Word: mp3
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...together, and it is a long drive. The sole thing that keeps us from bloodshed is that we have our own capacious beverage holders, business-class-size seats and entertainment pods. Dad has his satellite radio, Mom has her magazine, and the kids have their DVD consoles and MP3 players and Game Boy Advances, happily obliterating the unpleasant evidence of one another's existence...
...Europe, thanks to the success of iTunes, which recently sold its 100 millionth song. Even Microsoft is shouldering its way into the business. Last week, the software giant launched its U.S. online-music store, MSN Music. But to the frustration of millions of willing Asians with MP3 players and broadband connections, buying the latest hits online is difficult, because the big U.S. music sites are ignoring the region and local alternatives...
...download tracks for $1.16 each from Soundbuzz's 250,000-plus song library, which Saronwala says should hit 500,000 by the end of the year. Most importantly, Soundbuzz has forged a partnership with Singapore-based computer audio hardware maker Creative, which aims to make its new Zen Touch MP3 player work as symbiotically with Soundbuzz as the iPod does with iTunes. "I think we will create a buzz," says Sim Wong Hoo, Creative's CEO. "I believe the MP3 market will be as big as the cell-phone market...
...That'll take time. Although Soundbuzz is set to become Asia's first regional digital music store, expanding soon into Hong Kong, India and Taiwan, its download numbers are still modest. Meanwhile, Asia's other pioneering online stores, like Max MP3 in Korea and iBiz in Taiwan, remain small and local. Japan, with its $4.16 billion music market and love of all things high-tech, should be an obvious opportunity for online-music sales. A survey by Japan's Nikkei Business Daily found that 47% of respondents would buy music from iTunes if they could. But Sony, the obvious candidate...
...Asia exec, plans to move into Hong Kong, India and Taiwan by year's end. Have the music biz's blues turned to blue sky? Many think so. Downloading "will be as big as the cell-phone market," predicts Sim Wong Hoo, CEO of Creative, a maker of MP3 players. Forrester Research says Europe's download market could grow from €53 million this year to €3.5 billion by 2009. Still, most services are limited to a few big markets like Britain, where the top 20 tracks tallied just over 100,000 downloads in a week, total...