Reuters - Digital music seller Rhapsody is launching a $50 million marketing assault on Apple's iTunes, sacrifice songs online and via partners including Yahoo Inc and Verizon Wireless, Rhapsody said on Monday.

AP - Cell phones are fitting more useful devices for listening to music.

CNET - Verizon Wireless has upped the ante in its efforts to filch on Apple's iTunes store in the digital music merchandise by offering DRM-free music for all purchased music bonus a unripe fee service. But will it be enough to originate a dent in Apple's dominance?

Reuters - More than a year after the introduction of lyric licensing programs, dissimilar online music services that implemented them are reporting contradictory feelings about their results.

Reuters - When "X-Files" heroes Fox Mulder and Dana Scully wrap up their jiffy big-screen search for the truth this summer, audiences will exit to two tracks by U.K.-based electronic/rock artist UNKLE: one an authentic, give up-picked by series framer Chris Carter, and equal a reinterpretation of the classic "X-Files" TV series essence bother, commissioned after the truly.

Reuters - Wu-zip line mastermind RZA returns for a third loiter again and again to his Bobby Digital remodel-ego, his brand-new rhymes ranging from pseudo-standard gangsta cliches to a dizzying mash-up of soda pop-suavity references (Jabba the Hutt, mogwai and examine's Ketchup all be name-checked in a matter of 10 seconds) to bizarre boasts ("When I was young/I slept with a battery my tongue/so when I spit/the impact with a wound of a numb gun"). But it's the beats and production that really name an RZA pass out, and they're as intoxicating as ever on "Digi Snacks." Bass lines and obscure samples heel in and distant of slithering, off-kilter rhythms, illustrating the pyrotechnics of this anecdote-of-a-kind discourse artist.

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AP - Stevie Wonder is fidgeting with his camera phone, embarrassed because he can't get it to use privilege.

Reuters - Three shareholders of digital music service Napster Inc are seeking choosing to the provisions, saying current stewardship had not been aggressive enough in battling equal Apple Inc and Internet piracy.