Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Friday October 13th, 2006

NEWS FROM THE "I WANT TO BE THE IPOD KILLER" DEPARTMENT:

• Sony releases new Walkman players that include built-in noise canceling features and direct from CD uploads without a computer. (AP, Newsfactor)
• More Zune details from Microsoft but no surprises: $250 price tag and 99 cent downloads. (Reuters)
• The new Palm Treos add music and media. (TechWeb)

– The Hollywood Reporter on the Tower liquidation. (HR) The LA Times chimes in too. (LA)

– France’s StopDRM is getting creative with mew anti-DRM protests. (Mac News)

– Sonific’s Songspot launches two new blogs designed to show how to use the service. www.auctionmusic.net describes how Sonific users can quickly add music to their auction postings (such as on eBay), and www.songspotting.com describes how to set up a music blog using Sonific’s legal and fully licensed SongSpot services instead of uploading MP3 files.