The Score: Windows Delay, T-Mobile's "Unlimited Plan," Amazon Cloud Player Saga

Release Date 16 Apr, 2011 in Mobiledia

Google's iTunes Competitor Might Be In Trouble PCWorld - Ed Oswald - 16 Apr, 2011 Google's plans to take on Apple's dominance in digital music may be hitting a snag. AllThingsDigital's Peter Kafka is reporting that discussions with music labels have "stalled," apparently over the Mountain View, ...
Cloud Music: How Hard Do Online Streaming Services Rock? RollingStone.com (blog) - Scott Steinberg - 16 Apr, 2011 Cloud music services promise to rock the digital world and reinvent the way we discover new artists, songs and albums. By saving your music online, and letting you instantly stream tunes anytime, anywhere over the Internet to PCs or mobile devices, ...
Latest in Cloud Drive Saga: Amazon Meets with Music Execs TIME - Amie Ninh - ‎Apr 14, 2011‎ The online retailer was due for a meeting today in New York with music label executives about its controversial cloud music storage service. The digital locker Cloud Drive was launched in March and allows anyone to upload ...
Online music services to check out Washington Post (blog) - Hayley Tsukayama - ‎Apr 14, 2011‎ The cloud music space is getting crowded. With the Amazon Cloud Player on the scene and Spotify eyeing a US launch, it's time to get introduced to some of the listening services out there. Amazon Cloud Player: The newest kid on the ...
Turn Your Amazon Cloud Drive into Desktop-Accessible Storage PCWorld - Rick Broida - ‎Apr 14, 2011‎ As you may recall, Amazon recently unveiled its new Cloud Drive service, which provides 5GB of free online storage. (Elsewhere I explained how you could bump your limit to 20GB for under a buck. ...
Report: Google's Had It Up to Here w/Music Labels The Mac Observer - Bryan Chaffin - 16 Apr, 2011 Google is apparently just about fed up with the major music labels in its negotiations to put together a music service to compete with Apple's iTunes Store. AllThingsD reported that a source “familiar with [Google's] thinking” said that the ...
Google Music, MySpace Music Encounter Difficulties WebProNews - 16 Apr, 2011 A music service that doesn't yet exist and a music service anchored to a fading social network (may) have both hit rough patches this week. Reports indicate that Google Music isn't succeeding in talks with record companies, while MySpace Music's CTO ...
Google To Offer Music Services Without Label Participation, Licenses ITProPortal - Michael Ide - 16 Apr, 2011 According to recent rumors, Google plans to launch with its own music service without label licences. A recent report by The Music Void has suggested the negotiation between record companies and Google had become so bitter that the California based ...
	Google Facing Difficulties Getting iTunes Competitor Off The Ground Mac Rumors - Eric Slivka - 16 Apr, 2011 All Things Digital reports that Google is having difficulties as it works to develop its own iTunes competitor, describing the company's talks with major record labels as "going backwards". Google has been working since last year to roll out a music ...
	Will Google Music Ditch the Labels? Complex.com - Reggie Ugwu - 16 Apr, 2011 The main issue believed to have held back Google's long gestating cloud music service is negotiations with the major labels over licensing and fees. But for now, according to a report in All Things ...
Editorial: Google's Music Talks Aren't Going Well �" Will Music Be Too Little ... Android Police - 16 Apr, 2011 To answer the question, briefly: nobody really knows at this point. But I do think Google is going to have to make some sacrifices in the short term if the Music service is going to get off the ground. And that's because the record labels won't play ...
	Google Music botched? Ubergizmo (blog) - George Wong - 16 Apr, 2011 According to the latest report from All Things D, we might not be seeing Google Music being released �" at least any time soon or in its originally intended form. Apparently the search engine giant's negotiation with music ...
Google Takes a Step Back in Talks with Music Labels, Future of Google Music in ... Phandroid.com - Kevin Krause - 16 Apr, 2011 Those holding out hope for Google Music may never get a taste of what the service set out to be. During talks with major record labels solidifying music catalogs for distribution via the proposed digital ...
	Google Music Talks Are "Broken," Top Executives Are Rethinking Their Plans The Business Insider - 16 Apr, 2011 Image: AP Talks with labels are "broken," according to a source familiar with Google's thinking, says Kafka. Some sources tell Kafka Google has changed its terms in the last few weeks and that's tripping up negotiations. Google might just launch a ...
Why Google Should Buy The Recording Industry Techdirt - 16 Apr, 2011 The latest rumor to emerge from the Google campus is that the company's much anticipated music service is just about at the end of their rope with the major label licensing process. A source close to the negotiations characterizes the search giant as ...
	The Score: Windows Delay, T-Mobile's "Unlimited Plan," Amazon Cloud Player Saga Mobiledia - Peter Ferenczi - 16 Apr, 2011 This week we score Microsoft's problems with Windows Phone 7, T-Mobile's takeback of its unlimited plan and Amazon's problems with the music industry. The Score is a weekly column scoring controversial ...
	Is Google Music The New Spotify? Fast Company - Austin Carr - 16 Apr, 2011 It all started at CES in January of 2010. That's when Google met with execs from various major record labels, I'm told, to discuss launching a possible music service. The meetings were very exploratory, but it sounded at the time ...
Amazon: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Streaming License Dslreports - Karl Bode - 16 Apr, 2011 Late last month Amazon was the first of several folks to launch a "cloud" drive service. The service offers users 5GB of free storage for media files, a total you can easily bump to 20GB for a year ...
	Mobile Fix - Amazon flexes its muscles MediaTel Newsline - Simon Andrews - 16 Apr, 2011 Receive round-ups of news reports, research and analysis plus latest comment and opinion from across the UK media market. Simon Andrews, founder of the full service mobile agency addictive!, on Amazon's move in to the ad market and potential ...
New Amazon products let you store your music online, listen to it anywhere ... TMC Net - 16 Apr, 2011 (Dallas Morning News (TX) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) April 15--Once you've tried Amazon's new Cloud Drive and Cloud Player programs, storing your digital music on any single device will seem as primitive as starting a fire by rubbing two sticks ...
Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn., Julio Ojeda-Zapata column [Pioneer Press, St ... TMC Net - ‎Apr 14, 2011‎ (Saint Paul Pioneer Press (MN) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) April 14--Listening to music on mobile phones has always involved compromises. One option is to sync your tunes from your computer to your phone and keep the music stored on the handset. ...
Guide: How to use Amazon's Cloud Drive on your desktop as a folder Afterdawn.com - Andre Yoskowitz - ‎Apr 14, 2011‎ Late last month, Amazon launched their much anticipated Cloud Drive, offering anyone with an Amazon account 5GB of free cloud storage. As the company explains it, Amazon Cloud Drive is your hard drive in the cloud. Store your music, videos, photos, ...
Amazon Reportedly Meeting With Labels Over Cloud Licensing FMQB - ‎Apr 14, 2011‎ Amazon is reportedly meeting with representatives from the major labels today, to discuss licensing for its Cloud Drive service. The online retailer launched the Cloud Drive last month, despite a lack of deals with the music industry. ...
Best Cloud Storage Services Enterprise Storage Forum - ‎Apr 14, 2011‎ This Digital Trends article takes a look at five of the best cloud storage services currently available so you can pick the one that suits your data storage needs the best. "Amazon has long offered cloud storage under the label S3 �" but S3 isn't made ...
Amazon seeks to make peace with record labels Variety (blog) - ‎Apr 14, 2011‎ The retail giant will reportedly meet with executives at the major labels Thursday to discuss deal terms for its recently launched Cloud Drive, as the music industry continues to dispute the service's legality. Music companies maintain that Amazon does ...
Amazon meets with record labels as cloud music tensions mount Fiercemobilecontent - Jason Ankeny - ‎Apr 14, 2011‎ Amazon.com is slated to meet with record label executives in an effort to come to terms over the digital retail giant's controversial new Amazon Cloud Drive service, which enables consumers to securely store music in the cloud for anytime/anywhere ...
	Amazon Is Planning A Very Confrontational Meeting With The Big Music Labels Today The Business Insider - ‎Apr 14, 2011‎ Image: AP Amazon is having a meeting today with the big record labels about its cloud music storage service, Reuters reports. The service lets anyone upload and back up their music to Amazon's servers. A service like that had been rumored from ...
	Amazon music team to meet with labels UNLIMITED CMU - ‎Apr 14, 2011‎ Amazon music dudes are due to meet with record label execs in America today to discuss the cloud-based locker and player service they launched last month. As much previously reported, the music-focused digital locker allows users to upload their MP3 ...
Amazon Releases New Cloud Software The Heights (subscription) - ‎Apr 13, 2011‎ Amazon, the Internet retail giant that has introduced innovative products such as the Kindle, has long been behind Apple for a share of the downloadable music market. However, earlier this month Amazon released an interesting and innovative new ...
Talks between Google and the music labels apparently stalled The Inquisitr - 16 Apr, 2011 There has been a lot of talk recently about a possible move by Google into the music arena, or rather the talk has been ramping up, but Amazon's recent launch of a music storage locker service may have thrown a monkey wrench in the discussions between ...