Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co Ltd plans to launch a new model of its DS handheld machine that can take pictures and play music by the end of the year, the Nikkei business daily said on Sunday.

Nintendo plans to launch a new version of its popular DS portable gaming device with a camera and music player function…

Competition from the internet forces Glasgow’s oldest music retailer to shut.

TOKYO, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co Ltd <7974.OS> plans to launch a new model of its DS handheld machine that can take pictures and play music by the end of the year, the Nikkei business daily said on Sunday.

The deal: Phantom Ball Package at the Congress Hall Hotel in Cape May. Spend Halloween at the historic hotel’s holiday dance; this year’s theme, “The Return of Passed Music Legends,” promises a spooky but rocking good time.

Sony Ericsson will launch a mobile phone service with unlimited music downloads within weeks, the company said on Tuesday, as it competes with Nokia in expanding business beyond the sale of handsets.

Sony Ericsson will launch a mobile phone service with unlimited music downloads within weeks, Lennard Hoornik, head of marketing at the firm, said on Tuesday.

A consortium of music industry trade groups say they have come up with proposed royalty regulations for Web sites that offer streaming music services.

In what is being dubbed “breakthrough that will facilitate new ways to offer music to consumers online” by the music industry groups representing songwriters, music publishers, record labels and digital music websites, they have have ended a seven-year dispute over two types of music royalties. The agreement applies to on-demand music streaming from the likes of Imeem, Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) and …

As expected, mobile phone company provided details about the service designed to compete with Nokia’s Comes with Music

Cautious about being seen to devalue music, Nokia used our London EconMusic conference today to stress that tunes via its upcoming Comes With Music scheme will be anything but “free”.

Will a small microSD card save the album/CD music format? That’s the provocative question raised by SanDisk, which announced Monday that it has struck deals with music-industry leaders to release DRM-free MP3 music on slotMusic cards.

The battle and gamble over unlimited music services has arrived. Once Nokia came out of the gate last December with its Comes With Music concept, much of the music industry seems to be following their lead and in some cases beating Nokia to the punch.

Mobile music, the art of welding a Walkman to a handset, has so much promise - but in most countries outside the Far East it’s still just that. Two thirds of mobile users don’t want music, said a recent survey from Jupiter Research, so its research VP Mark Mulligan, our panel moderator, kicked off this session thusly: “Will Europeans ever behave like Japanese?”

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK: Sony Ericsson will launch a mobile phone service with unlimited music downloads within weeks, the company said on Tuesday, as it competes with Nokia in expanding business beyond the sale of handsets.

Jazzman Stanley Jordan’s intuition that music could be a healing force traces back to his teen years. He says he was sick with the flu and spent an entire day surrounded by song and recovered nearly instantly.

SanDisk, Big Four music labels team up to sell albums on one-GB microSD cards, perfect for cell phones or most media players.

SanDisk, four major record labels and retailers Best Buy and Wal-Mart Stores are hoping that albums sold on microSD memory cards will provide an additional stream of music sales.

Just as vinyl once gave way to compact discs as the main physical medium for music, could CDs be replaced now by a fingernail-sized memory card?

The four major record labels will put their songs on the new format to help boost retail sales. Move over, compact discs. Something the size of a fingernail may offer the music industry a way to boost sales in retail stores as CD purchases continue to decline.

In a week that will see heavy coverage of MySpace Music when it launches, SanDisk (NSDQ: SNDK) has announced an ambitious venture to sell its microSD memory cards pre-loaded with DRM-free MP3 music from all the four majors EMI Music, *Sony* BMG, Universal Music Group, and *Warner Music Group*. The service, dubbed “slotMusic”, will launch this coming holiday season in U.S., at Best Buy and …

SanDisk is teaming up with some of the biggest music labels in an effort to ease the venerable and increasingly unloved audio CD into the retirement home. The Milpitas maker of flash memory said today that it is partnering with four top labels to roll out a…

Just as vinyl once gave way to compact discs as the main physical medium for music, could CDs be replaced now by a fingernail-sized memory card? Perhaps not entirely, but SanDisk Corp., four major record labels and retailers Best Buy Co. and Wal-Mart Stores…

The music has died for the National Music Center and Museum Foundation.

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Change is the buzzword for fall, and not just in politics. Amid the bumper crop of upcoming albums, ears are trained on artists facing crucial career transitions. USA TODAY’s music team looks at a dozen candidates whose new albums offer platforms for surges in critical and popular acceptance.

Myspace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson have had an uneasy relationship with the music industry. Nearly every music act has a MySpace page; some of them, like British pop diva Lily Allen and American psychedelic-funk purveyor Gnarls Barkley, have used the social network to become stars. But two years ago Universal Music Group discovered unauthorized songs from U2 and Jay-Z on MySpace and …

Company wants to direct users to music available on multiple Web sites, but with many of these sites already offering a full range of services, will anyone need Yahoo?

DJ Dave Pearce is to switch his Dance Anthems show to digital station 6 Music from next month.

Rather than cloister users into its own services, Yahoo Music plans to give them what they want — even if that means easy access to sites Yahoo once viewed as the competition. Yahoo’s motivation isn’t entirely altruistic: it plans to track user preferences across these services to create what it hopes will become a calling card music lovers can use to identify their tastes and desires wherever …

The New Century Chamber Orchestra began a new chapter Thursday night, welcoming Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg as its music director in an exciting, high-energy program devoted to South American themes. The change was immediately noticeable. Not that there was any…

Fortune gets a first crack at doing a story on MySpace Music, which is launching in its new avatar next week. And while the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). subsidiary has been setting expectations on the music service sky-high with teasers, other established competitors like Imeem have been out in front on a PR offensive talking about how their services stack up in the market, their points of …

The first aspects of MySpace Music, a major partnership between News Corp. and the three largest record labels in the world, have been revealed to be a playlist creation tool and ‘buy’ links to Amazon’s MP3 store. Both sound more than a little familiar.

DEAR BILLY GRAHAM: What do you think of contemporary Christian music? Our church is beginning to use it more and more, but to be honest I’m having a hard time getting used to it. My teenage children like it, however. — Mrs. L.W.Y.

Updated below: Fortune gets a first crack at doing a story on MySpace Music, which is launching in its new avatar next week. And while the News Corp . subsidiary has been setting expectations on the music service sky-high with teasers, other established competitors like Imeem have been out in front on a PR offensive talking about how their services stack up in the market, their points of …

It’s Britney, baby, one more time. Despite her train-wreck performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last year, the network confirms Spears will kick off the show once again.

Everybody likes free music, but nobody likes to be sued. For people seeking free music online, therein lies the conundrum.

Sony may have ceded much of the personal music player market to Apple and its iPod, but the company?s nearly 30-year-old product line continues with new models.

Dead rapper Tupac “2Pac” Shakur, the hip-hop icon who sold more records after he was murdered than during his brief career, is the most overrated person in music, according to music magazine Blender.

A new website is trying to make it profitable for music lovers to stay ahead of the curve by paying them when other people purchase MP3s they’ve bought.