AFP - Google's new China music search feature will solidify its foothold in the world's biggest Internet market, but massive music piracy could spoil hopes of catching up to market leader Baidu, analysts said.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp has signed up multiple software partners for its upcoming cellphone software marketplace, including Web music service Pandora, game publisher Electronic Arts Inc and social site Facebook.

AFP - Google on Monday formally launched a music search service in China that offers free downloads of licenced songs and is supported by advertising.

AP - Google Inc. and major music companies launched a free Internet music download service for China on Monday in a bid to help turn a field dominated by pirates into a profitable, legitimate business.

PC World - Google has expanded the free music downloads it offers in China to include songs by artists from each of the big four U.S. record labels, an addition that could help it win users from dominant Chinese search engine Baidu.

Reuters - Google Inc on Monday launched free downloads of licensed songs in China, while sharing advertising revenue with major music labels in a market rife with online piracy.

AP - ATT Inc., the nation's largest Internet service provider, will start sending warnings to its subscribers when music labels and movie studios allege that they are trafficking in pirated material, according to an executive.

AP - ATT Inc., the nation's largest Internet service provider, will start sending warnings to its subscribers when music labels and movie studios allege that they are trafficking in pirated material, according to an executive.

PC World - A Europe-wide law forcing Internet service providers to cut subscribers off from the Internet if they illegally download copyright-protected music or movies isn't going to happen as part of an ongoing review of telecom rules, telecom commissioner Viviane Reding said in an interview.

PC Magazine - Apple will make its music catalog available DRM-free on April 7, not April 1. How could they do this to us? Maybe they love to see us suffer.