New York - New York Gov. David Paterson has proposed levying a new batch of taxes on digitally delivered entertainment services, such as music and video downloaded from iTunes, and e-books purchased for Amazon's Kindle device, The New York Daily News reported.

Los Angeles - Automatic music recommendation service Mufin has launched a public beta, and is now offering applications that connect with iTunes and Facebook. The service has analyzed the actual sounds of some 4 million tracks, and based on these acoustical characteristics, can compile playlists of songs that sound similar to one another.

Little Rock, Ark. - Mobile network operator Alltel Wireless announced on Wednesday that it has added a mobile music service from nuTsie that will let subscribers listen to playlists from their iTunes libraries on their phones. Available for $4.99 per month or $19.99 annually, the nuTsie service also allows subscribers to listen to other nuTsie users' iTunes playlists.

Los Angeles - A number of Apple-related blogs are today reporting on an anonymous tip they all received, which claims Apple (NASD: AAPL) will introduce an unlimited iTunes subscription music service in late October. The service would reportedly deliver songs at 256 Kbps and cost $130 per year, or $100 for subscribers to Apple's MobileMe service.

Los Angeles - Radio giant Clear Channel's Premiere Radio Networks unit on Wednesday announced the launch of "The iTunes Download," a three-hour weekend music countdown to be hosted by Alex Luke, iTunes director of music programming at Apple (NASD: AAPL). In addition to playing a selection of the 30 most-downloaded songs from the service, the show will feature artist interviews, celebrity playlists, and iMixes submitted by iTunes Store customers.