The European Commission said today it wants to implement new rules for the makers of MP3 players that would require them to follow new volume standards.
The Commission pointed to a study that found listening to personal music players at a high volume over a long period can lead to permanent hearing damage and 5 to 10 percent of listeners risk permanent hearing loss. It's estimated that up to 10 million people in the EU may be at risk.
Recent by comments by Microsoft executives have led to speculation that Microsoft may abandon the Zune.Microsoft CEO Ballmer declared at CES that consumers increasingly were moving away from one task devices like the Zune towards smart phones while at the same time stating flatly that no Zune phone was in the works.
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A new study by JupiterResearch, a Forrester Research company, predicts that digital music will grow from the current 18% to 41% of total sales in 5 years. Researchers credited stores like Amazon and the transition to mp3's which make downloads portable for some of the increase.
Music Ally blogger Stuart Dredge pointed me toward the Terms & Condit
There had to be a better way. It's no surprise that Yahoo! Music is shutting down its download store and pointing customers to Rhapsody. But did they have to pull a Microsoft and stop supporting the retrieval of license keys or authorize playback on additional computers? Here's the email that came last night:
(RED), the nonprofit organisation co-founded by Bono, is starting a new digital music service (via NYT) in September that will contribute a share of profits to
The Warner Music Group family of labels has widened its full catalog mp3 offering to incl
Starting today, players of Gran
A billion dollar giveaway starting February 1st will help Amazon.com take on Apple's iTunes for consumer music purchases.
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