SanDisk has partnered with four major music labels, EMI Music, SONY BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group to rid us of CD’s. The new micro SD memory cards, dubbed "Slot Music" are pre-loaded with DRM free MP3’s and will be available at retail stores including Best Buy and Wal-Mart, with Europe to follow.
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Reuters reports that Nokia has announced that on Tuesday they have signed a deal with Carphone Warehouse to release a new music program for its phones in the UK. The program called "Comes With Music" allows music to be downloaded from the phone and listened to like all do these days. The difference with this program is that you get to keep your music that you have downloaded within the 12 month period.
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On Monday Sony will begin offering 1 million DRM free songs for 99 cents. This is yet another music service, but delivers not only music from Sony, BMG, Warner Music and EMI, but games, ringtones, apps as well as themes for mobile downloading. This due to Sony trying to get into the ever more polluted music downloading services. We do have to applaud them for no DRM and hopefully they will have an easy user interface for downloading and transferring music.
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