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The new service will compete with Apple's iTunes and the Zune line of music products from Microsoft

Samsung Electronics has just announced the company will offer an online music download service to complement a new line of MP3 players, according to the company yesterday. Pricing, fees and exact details haven't been released yet, but the service is expected to launch sometime before the end of the year. Online downloads along with a subscription service will be offered by the company, who is working alongside MusicNet to offer the latest music service.

Music listeners will have access to over 2 million songs from all major record companies. Consumers in the United Kingdom, France and Germany will be first to use the service – but Samsung and MusicNet plan on expanding it to other parts of Europe and to select regions in Asia. Because of the overpowering dominance of iTunes in the United States, it is not clear when Samsung will make the service available in the US.

The store will be compatible with the Samsung line of MP3 players, including the K5, which has an integrated speaker built-in.

Even though a number of companies have tried to combat the popularity of the Apple iTunes service, not many have been successful. Microsoft announced its line of music players and the online music service designed to complement the MP3 players.

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Ambition
By obstreperous on 9/2/2006 5:17:25 AM , Rating: 2
Go the Koreans....! Good to see a non-Anglo-Saxon Country having a go at content distribution.




RE: Ambition
By headbox on 9/2/2006 5:24:11 AM , Rating: 2
A lot of other countries have content distribution. It's called piracy.


RE: Ambition
By Pythias on 9/2/2006 4:26:26 PM , Rating: 3
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Go the Koreans....! Good to see a non-Anglo-Saxon Country having a go at content distribution.


Kill whitey!


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