URGE (digital music service)
The URGE digital music store was a short-lived online music distribution service run by MTV Networks.
Hit streaming service Spotify eyes U.S. music fans
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By Antony Bruno DENVER (Billboard) - MTV Urge ... Yahoo Music Unlimited ... Virgin Digital ... Since 2003 -- when iTunes launched in the United States -- all of these digital music services have come and gone, without challenging Apple's market...
Published on Thursday 11th of March 2010 07:40:47 PM
MTV, RealNetworks Challenge Apple Music
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Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks and digital media company RealNetworks announced Tuesday a digital music joint venture that will compete with Apple's dominant trinity of the iTunes store, iPod player and iPhone. MTV will merge its Urge music service into the Rhapsody offering from RealNetworks Inc. The new offering will be accessible on computers and..
Published on Thursday 11th of March 2010 07:40:47 PM
MTV Axes Urge Service to Partner with Rhapsody
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MTV Networks will drop its Urge digital music offering to partner with Real Networks' Rhapsody service for a new venture that will be backed exclusively by Verizon Wireless, the companies announced Tuesday.
Published on Thursday 11th of March 2010 07:40:47 PM
MTV Axes Urge Service to Partner with Rhapsody
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MTV Networks will drop its Urge digital music offering to partner with Real Networks' Rhapsody service for a new venture that will be backed exclusively by Verizon Wireless, the companies announced Tuesday.
Published on Thursday 11th of March 2010 07:40:47 PM
A Timeline of Viacom's MTV digital-music failure
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How long will it take the corporate suits at Viacom to realize that MTV Networks will never, ever, ever succeed in digital music? The latest move, folding MTV's Urge online music store into RealNetworks' Rhapsody service, is just another example of its fumbling.
Published on Thursday 11th of March 2010 07:40:47 PM
DefectiveByDesign - Wake up Edgar Bronfman, DRM is dead!
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Dear Chairman Bronfman (Warner Music)... We the undersigned urge you to drop DRM from Warner Music's digital distribution. Put the energy that has been spent attempting to lock down the audience towards developing new artist music and innovating new products and services for the music fan... (sign this letter now)
Published on Thursday 11th of March 2010 07:40:47 PM
MusicNet Negotiations Reveal Cracks In Celestial Jukebox
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Coolfer has heard from a few sources that MusicNet, a content provider to music services such as URGE and Microsoft's Zune, are playing hardball with some digital distributors. As the parties renegotiate their contracts, MusicNet has reportedly asked for an...
Published on Thursday 11th of March 2010 07:40:47 PM
Zune won't play PlaysForSure
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Bill and the Boyz' much-touted Zune won't play songs bought through services such as Napster, MTV's Urge or Yahoo Music Unlimited, all of which use Microsoft's very own Windows Media PlaysFor DRM (digital restrictions management) application.
Published on Thursday 11th of March 2010 07:40:47 PM
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