Orange has followed Vodafone in announcing it will offer digital rights management-free music downloads in what it says is a "major refresh" of its music portal.

Orange will sell DRM-free music downloads from Universal Music, EMI Music and...

We've brought you news before that Nokia was considering a DRM-free approach for its "unlimited" Comes with Music offering, but now have had a statement from the manufacturer saying it is "committed" to going DRM-free - this year.

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Vodafone is following up from its "Freeday" Friday that saw mobile internet gratis, with the news that this Friday will henceforth be known as "Free Music Friday".

The UK-based operator is offering Voda customers eight free tracks from major...

Naim Label has announced that as of 18 May it will relaunch, offering "high definition" music downloads, with fully uncompressed, DRM-free, 24bit WAV files available.

As well as offering 320kbps MP3 files, the company will be angling their...

Vodafone has announced that it has signed deals with Universal Music, Sony Music Entertainment and EMI to offer their tracks and albums DRM-free across Vodafone markets for both mobile phones and PCs.

Said to be the first deals of their kind...

If you’re really into your music and would prefer an unlimited download subscription to picking and paying for individual tracks through something like iTunes, enter the Datz Music Lounge, which offers unlimited, DRM-free tunes for a year.

Apple has u-turned on its potentially expensive all-or-nothing policy of making an iTunes user upgrade their entire music library to the DRM-free iTunes Plus format.

Up to now, iTunes users had to shell out a lump sum to upgrade all their...

What is it?
Standing for, COder / DECoder, although it's the second part of the word that most people are more familiar with, it's the part an MP3 player, iPod, mobile phone or computer handles whilst playing file-based music.

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Some good news in the business world to counterbalance the gloom of the economic downturn - 7digital.com has announced strong figures with Q4 sales up more than 260% from the same quarter last year.

7digital attributes this success in part...

At the Apple keynote at Macworld Expo 2009 in San Francisco Philip W. Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide product marketing for Apple, followed absent Apple boss Steve Jobs' tradition of announcing "one last thing".

Music fans will...

Apple is apparently on the verge of offering unprotected iTunes Store music from all major labels, if recent reports are to be believed.

A French news source has it that Apple is planning a major launch in time for Christmas that will see...

Microsoft has announced "landmark agreements" with both major and independent music labels for a new subscription music model for its Zune MP3 player.

The Zune Pass subscription service currently gives consumers on-demand access to millions...

Seven of the UK's music download retailers have launched a campaign that identifies music in the MP3 format.

Angled "to help consumers make the most of the growing availability of music in the universally compatible MP3 format", the campaign...

The "Datz Music Lounge" has launched, described as "a revolutionary new way to buy and enjoy music".

The Datz Music Lounge lets you download as many tracks as you want over the course of a year for a one off cost of £99.99.

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In the States, Dell and Universal Music Group have teamed to provide pre-loaded song bundles of different genres of music.

Described as "a simple, economical way to jump-start a digital music library" individuals will be able to select a...