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Cdigix to Launch Download Service on 3 Calif. Campuses

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 11, 2005 - 6:31am.
Englewood, Colo. - Cdigix, a provider of legal campus download services, announced on Tuesday that the University of California Irvine, the University of California Riverside and University of California San Diego will offer its services to 66,000 students beginning this month. The launches follow Cdigix's signing of a master agreement with the University of California and the California State University systems, to provide music and video downloading, and social networking services on campuses.
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Microsoft Expands Music Download Service in Europe

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 4, 2004 - 9:07am.
Madrid -- Microsoft announced on Thursday that it has launched its MSN music download service in eight European countries, bringing its Western European tally to 13. Microsoft said it launched its new stores in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland through a partnership with CDON.com, a Sweden-based Internet retailer. The U.S.-based software giant also said it would launch the service in Spain, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland using a similar partnership agreement with OD2, a unit of Seattle-based Loudeye. "If you take all the new countries, we expect to overtake iTunes very soon because we will have a larger user base to tap," said Arndt Salzburg, Microsoft MSN director for the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and South America). Just last week, rival Apple expanded its iTunes music download service to an additional nine countries, bringing its European total to 12.
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U.K. Charity Oxfam to Offer Music Download Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 24, 2004 - 7:32am.
London -- Entering an increasingly crowded market with Napster, Coca-Cola and Apple Computer's iTunes, U.K.-based charity Oxfam announced on Monday that it, too, would launch a music download service in Europe. "Music lovers get great tracks, and artists see their music helping some of the poorest people in the world through real cash support," said Adrian Lovett, Oxfam's director of campaigns and communications. Oxfam said that it has joined forces with U.K.-based digital music company OD2 to sell downloads for between 75 and 99 pence per track, out of which 10 pence will be devoted to fight poverty and raise funds for humanitarian aid. Oxfam's said its online service would be launched with a library of more than 300,000 songs -- including such artists as Coldplay and George Michael. The service is scheduled to go live on Wednesday, May 26, Oxfam said.
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