Wal-Mart has joined the likes of Amazon.com and iTunes today - it is offering MP3 downloads, free of DRM. Much as it's hard to applaud anything Wal-Mart does, it is a major step when the world's ...

Wal-Mart stores announced last week that it will begin testing digital music downloads on its Web site, www.walmart.com, selling songs for 88 cents each. This decision will place the retailer in ...

Walmart is pulling the plug on its MP3 downloads store, but it will continue to support DRMed tracks that it sold before the store went DRM-free. The news comes via a leaked memo to Digital Music News ...

Walmart.com's music download store went DRM free in February of 2008; and now the retail giant is telling customers that they'll no longer support the DRM laden downloads that they sold them prior to ...

BRISBANE, Calif., March 23 (UPI) -- Wal-Mart Tuesday officially launched its music file download service offering thousands of digital downloads at 88 cents a song. The Bentonville, Ark., discount ...

Scott Jagow: Wal-Mart said this morning it’s gonna start selling music downloads without copy protection software. That’s the software that prevents you from copying a song to more than one device.

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Tuesday that it is offering digital music downloads of popular recording artists at prices lower than Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store. The downloads, available at www.walmart.com, ...

Walmart has issued a memo to all music licensing partners and informed them that the digital music store at “mp3.walmart.com” will be shutting down on August 28, 2o11. All music content will no longer ...

Now that compact discs are dying, are record stores next? Of course, brick-and-mortar buildings won’t vanish anytime soon, but the public humbling of Tower Records, by way of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy ...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. began selling music downloads that lack copyright-protection software at a price lower than that offered by Apple Inc.’s iTunes online store. Downloads are available from record ...