October 17, 2004

Apple celebrates 150 million iTunes downloads VNUNET - Music fans have bought and downloaded more than 150 million songs from the iTunes Music Store, Apple has revealed. The company said that iTunes users are now downloading more than four million songs a week, a rate of over 200 million songs a year. "Crossing 150 million downloads marks another major milestone for the online music business," said Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of applications, in a statement. 9:36:43 PM

Virgin Electronics unveils music player Ninemsn - AP - The consumer electronics arm of the Virgin Group is introducing a new five-gigabyte hard-disk portable music player, bringing a powerful brand name in music to the increasingly crowded product space. 9:35:00 PM