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Napster has just unveiled their latest plans to stay relevant in the subscription based music space.  Putting aside the fact that many, myself included, had long since forgotten about Napster, they may be worth a second chance. Napster will be offering a low-priced monthly deal, and by low priced I… Continue Reading »

AT&T’s latest offering, the Sony Ericsson W760a Walkman phone may not be that big as other mobile phone announcements made recently, but it certainly scored a first for the U.S. mobile phone market—the first 3G Walkman phone ever to hit stateside.  The W760a like the previous Sony Ericsson Walkman phones,… Continue Reading »

You have probably heard about Best Buy‘s aggressive move today to grab Napster.  Clearly leveraging their position as a retail giant, Best Buy hopes to cash in on content going into those players it sells.  But there is more to it than just linear logic.  Take these for example: It’s… Continue Reading »

Napster has just launched its first mobile music video service, Napster Clips in Japan. This new service puts a premium on unlimited access to a high-quality digital video service that would complement Napster’s music subscription service. In partnership with Japan’s NTT Docomo, Napster is offering this service via the mobile… Continue Reading »

Apple’s iTunes Store better watch it’s back, because here comes Napster with not just another online music service, but one that now offers a whooping 6 million DRM-free music tracks. With this number of available tracks Napster has now become the world’s largest major label MP3 catalog and the largest… Continue Reading »

Shawn Fanning, who rose to fame as the founder of the legendary music sharing network Napster before crashing back to earth thanks to the likes of Metallica and the RIAA, has turned up in a new role as a Volkswagen spokesperson. The new ads from the German automaker portray a… Continue Reading »

AT&T has announced two new music applications; mSpot’s Make-Ur-Tones and mSpot Remix. Likewise, AT&T also announced its plan of expanding the Napster Mobile service it gives under the AT&T network. All three music applications provide mobile music lovers the freedom to choose the music they want to listen to and… Continue Reading »

Napster and O2 have reached an agreement that would make available 5 million music tracks to O2’s mobile subscribers. The deal is set to expand O2’s limited music database while bringing another milestone in Napster’s move towards transforming its services into a legitimate online song shop. Under the Napster-O2 deal,… Continue Reading »

Napster is embracing DRM free and have announced that they are going to shift their whole catalog to MP3 exclusively. This means that the largest on-demand subscription service will work on pretty much every MP3 player on the market. According to Napster they are the first in the market to… Continue Reading »