Everyone uses their computer to listen to their favorite tunes, whether it's a PC or an iPhone, but it wasn't always so. Delve into the history of digital music with this week's Trivia Tuesday. More...

Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, two of the main people behind the launch of Napster, will take the cover off its new venture, Airtime, at a press event in New York City June 5th. More...

A company that owns over 200 smaller music labels has decided to pull its music from Spotify and other streaming online music services, claiming such companies actually hurt the music industry. More...

Best Buy has unveiled and confirmed plans to sell the music streaming service Napster to fellow music streaming service Rhapsody. More...

BestBuy has re-launched Napster and it's trying a new untested business model. The basic premise of the cheapest plan is that you can get unlimited streaming of music, keep 5 DRM free MP3's each... More...

In a bid to challenge Apple's dominant iTunes music service, electronics retalier Best Buy plans to buy digital music service Napster for $121 million in cash. Best Buy announced on Monday it would pay $2.65... More...

Napster, one of the largest digital music retailers, said Monday it would start selling downloads in the MP3 format from the second quarter of this year in the latest blow to copy protection for songs... More...

Media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG has settled a copyright infringement case by paying $130 million US to the National Music Publishers' Association, a trade association that represents more than 700 U.S. music publishers. The latest deal... More...

Circuit City has announced a partnership with Napster that realizes a subscription music service dubbed "Circuit City + Napster" which will offer "all the same great music discovery and community features such as personalized recommendations,... More...

AOL has scrapped AOL Music Now and is calling Napster their exclusive supplier of subscription music for its AOL Music site. Over the next 60 days, AOL's 350,000 paid accounts will be transferred over to... More...

Napster, which started its life as an illegal MP3 sharing service created by a college student in Visual Basic has evolved into a $100 million plus corporation. Despite the vast increase in revenue, the... More...

Napster UK is giving away free MP3 players to all new subscribers of its portable music service. Anyone taking out a three-month Napster to Go subscription from 14 September will receive a 512MB Sandisk Sansa... More...

Technical glitches by Microsoft and the digital music device makers have hampered Napster Inc.'s ability to close the gap with Apple's iTunes, the dominant online music service, Napster's chief executive said on Tuesday. "There is... More...

Computer giant Dell and the music service Napster stated today that they would partner together to bring a new digital music download service to U.S. college campuses. The deal will call on Dell... More...

Banking on the idea that mobile phones will replace digital music players, Napster and Sony Ericsson plan to announce today a joint venture to make a music-downloading service available to cell phone operators. ... More...

Neowin previously reported on the work done by Cody Brocious to get iTunes working on Linux; in a soon to be released updated version, Cody and his group have announced plans to support the Napster... More...

It's like the old Napster all over again: all the music you want for free, as long as you're willing to get a little geeky. Blogs were buzzing Tuesday about the resurgence... More...

The Superbowl is not just a contest of football teams, it's a contest of ads. And finishing dead last in the ad contest this year was none other than Napster's advertisement. ... More...

Napster has begun its life as an independent company, following the completion of the sale of former parent Roxio's software operation. Roxio's stock began trading under the NAPS indent yesterday as the company dropped its... More...

With $10 million in venture funding and the backing of at least one major record label, Napster founder Shawn Fanning will officially unveil his new peer-to-peer music company on Monday. As previously... More...

Napster on Wednesday said that Napster to Go, its fledgling portable music service, is now available to AT&T Wireless subscribers who use the Audiovox SMT5600 smart phone. The service lets customers download... More...

Digital music service Napster announced Monday that customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada can now pay for tunes using PayPal. Napster users can choose to pay their monthly... More...

Roxio said Monday that it will sell its consumer software division for $80 million and focus wholly on its Napster digital music business in the future. The company plans to officially change... More...

If you like Roxio's digital media player and Napster then you're in luck. With a one-year subscription you can get a Rio Chiba Sport or 1.5GB Rio Nitrus. Roxio Inc.'s Napster... More...

Three years after it was closed down by the record industry, the online music service Napster is back. Napster, which pioneered illegal music downloading, surprised the record industry yesterday by unveiling a legitimate UK Web... More...

In an effort to help its large-scale customers conserve bandwidth and speed up the delivery of online music, Napster is using open standards technology from IBM as part of a cache-management system, the company says.... More...

Napster will launch a service dedicate to UK music buyers by "the end of summer", the company revealed today. Such a date puts it behind Apple's iTunes Music Store, which is expected to launch in... More...

Old-fashioned red tape is delaying the eagerly awaited European launches for iTunes and Napster. A maze of licensing contracts, music release dates that differ by country and incompatible billing systems have combined... More...

Napster, whom has recently relaunched as a legal service is the US, is set to extend the service into Europe from Spring. Leanne Sharman, the former head of sales and... More...

Napster is teaming up with Imation, a maker of optical media products, to market and distribute Napster-branded blank CDs and DVDs in North America. The online music company also announced an agreement to sell the... More...

Penn State University has teamed up with Napster to offer students free downloads from the library of over "500,000 songs, as well as 40 radio stations, access to six decades of Billboard chart data, an... More...

OSNews has a thorough first look at Napster 2. Napster began its life as essentially an auto-music-piracy program. But it's gone straight under new management and now offers subscriptions in exchange for music purchasing. ... More...

The online music retailer has developed its own prepaid cards to target teens and others without credit cards. Online music retailer Napster unveiled prepaid cards on Monday, so people -- particularly teens -- can download... More...

Napster is to relaunch before Christmas offering both subscription and free services. Napster 2.0 will allow users access to up to 500,000 tracks by paying for individual downloads or a monthly subscription. Napster has signed... More...

Robert X. Cringely has a new idea for an online music business which he calls Son of Napster, or Snapster for short. Written by Robert X. Cringely Napster... More...

Roxio, provider of the best selling digital media software in the world announced today that it acquired Pressplay, the nation's premier online music service. As a result, Roxio has acquired a legal digital music distribution... More...

very interesting article... "Instead of feeling relieved, Napster Inc. chief executive officer Eileen Richardson was pacing the halls with worry. San Francisco's Hummer Winblad Venture Partners had committed to invest $13 million for... More...

Thanks to use_imagination for mailing us with the below story. Software maker Roxio bought the remaining intellectual property assets of the now defunct song-swap company Napster for just over $5 million in... More...

Thanks to Lee Whittaker and creamhackered for letting us know of this news. Software maker Roxio is poised to snap up the remaining assets of the now defunct song-swapping company Napster (news -... More...

The most recent bidding in the auction for the remaining assets of the bankrupt file-swapping service Napster closed late Tuesday and the process of sorting through those offers has begun. "There were over... More...

Barcelona, Spain-Based private Media Group Inc. offered to snap up Napster's most valuable remaining asset — its unique brand identity — for 1 million shares of Private's common stock, the bidding company announced in a... More...

Thanks Tony Phang. With the resignation of Thomas Middelhoff as chief executive of Bertelsmann AG, the future looks even bleaker for the debt-riddled and lawsuit-plagued music file swapping company, experts said on Monday. ... More...

Saw this over on Slashdot, everyone say aaah... Napster, the embattled Internet music upstart which has been offline since July 2001, said Monday it has filed for bankruptcy protection. The... More...

Less than three days after Napster founder Shawn Fanning and CEO Konrad Hilbers said they were leaving the project for good, along comes Bertelsmann with an offer they couldn't refuse: Buy Napster... More...

Napster founder Shawn Fanning quit the revolutionary online file-swapping service he created in his Boston dorm room in a mass exodus Tuesday that almost certainly signals the end for the once-feisty music service. ... More...

Thanks Eddie E. for sending in this story. A federal appeals court this week rejected Napster's final effort to bring back its free song-swapping service, which it was forced to close in July... More...

Online music trading service Napster said Friday it will sack 10 percent of its staff as it awaits a deal with the world's leading record companies. Napster has been all but shutdown since... More...

Just seen this over at The Nando Times The record industry must provide documented proof it owns copyrights to scores of popular songs it is seeking to protect in its lawsuit against... More...

Napster will launch a test version of its new service on Thursday which prevents the unauthorized sharing of copyrighted files -- a feature which made the original service popular among users but hated by the... More...

Thanks boobless from our forum :) Here's a quote from the team "In early 2002, we plan to launch the new Napster membership service and start a whole new chapter in music file... More...