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"Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday said it was launching a new online music subscription service, aggressively competing against providers such as RealNetworks Inc.’s Rhapsody and Napster Inc. with lower pricing.

"Yahoo said it was offering the service with an introductory price of $4.99 per month for an annual subscription, or $6.99 on a monthly basis. The service, available May 11, lets fans play tunes from a catalog of more than one million songs, transfer tracks to portable devices and share music with friends through Yahoo! Messenger."

Sue Zeidler. Yahoo Launches Music Subscription Service. Reuters. May 10, 2005.

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Lisa DiCarlo. Yahoo! Takes On iTunes. Forbes.com. May 10, 2005.

Associated Press. Yahoo Readies Cheap Music Service. Wired News. May 10, 2005.

"Still using your cell phone just to make phone calls? How passé.

"If the seers are correct, within a year your cell phone will be capable of live television, music downloads and playback, videogames, storing movie clips and viewing everything from photo albums to digital home movies. In short, more than you may have ever thought possible.

"Of course, there are high hurdles to clear before all this great stuff happens–complex rights agreements, conflicting technology standards and the sometimes fractious relationship between carriers and content providers–but everyone involved has a stake in making it work.

"How big a stake? It’s almost too big to put a number on."

Lisa DiCarlo. The Only Exciting Thing In Tech?. Forbes.com. May 9, 2005.

"The Internet and digital technology are changing entertainment at lightning speed. The coming years will scramble concepts of music-making, movies, TV networks and advertising. Last week, USA TODAY‘s Kevin Maney  assembled a panel of some of the industry’s most influential players to talk about what’s ahead."

Kevin Maney. What’s Ahead for Net, Digital Entertainment. USA Today. May 11, 2005.

"University of California libraries feeling the heat of the budget crisis will cut collections in an effort not to burn holes in their pockets. No information will be lost to UC students though, as long as they have access to the Internet.

"’The library is carrying out the first cancellation project as part of a multi-year plan to eliminate subscriptions to print when we license access to the electronic equivalent, said Cynthia Shelton, associate university librarian for collection management and scholarly communication, in a statement on the UCLA Library Web site."

Josh Blitstein. Libraries Cut Many Print Publications. Daily Bruin. May 6, 2005.

"A local radio pro has found out that distributing his program like an amateur isn’t as simple as it sounds.

"Chicago’s Steve Dahl thought he could be at the forefront of the so-called podcasting trend, which was virtually unknown a year ago.

"Last month he began making his WCKG-FM 105.9 afternoon show available online as a digital audio file, so those with iPods and other portable media devices can download them and listen at leisure around the world. He used the same new technology that enables computer users to make and distribute homemade programs.

"But this re-purposing of Dahl’s show has come to an abrupt halt because of copyright and royalty issues."

Phil Rosenthal. Dahl’s Podcasts Halt Amid Stream of Legal Issues. Chicago Tribune. May 6, 2005.

"Web giant Yahoo is developing a search engine for finding downloadable songs and music data from across the Internet, CNET News.com has learned.

"The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company plans to introduce the music search engine within the next couple of months, according to a source familiar with the service.

"The specialty engine will let people search on an artist’s name, for example, and retrieve all the available songs from other music services, as well as album reviews and band information from Yahoo Music."

Stefanie Olsen. Yahoo Developing an Audio Search Engine. News.com. May 5, 2005.

"It’s been a little over 6 months since we started up this iTunes Super Filter site, and it’s been more successful than I could have ever hoped! I have always struggled to maintain a blog regularly just like everyone else out there, so thanks so much for reading what we write.

"We signed up for Apple’s iTunes Affiliate Program early on in the Fall of 2004. I thought, “What would happen if all we did was post music recommendations and point to the iTunes Music Store?” It’s been half a year now, and we have gathered enough data from this project to report some interesting results. Today I would like to share some statistics from our experience with the Affiliate Program."

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