Today Microsoft Corp.'s Zune® team announced that a Zune music player produced in collaboration with Latin Grammy-nominated artists Wisin y Yandel, Machete Music and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will go on sale exclusively at Wal-Mart retailers Oct. 29 for $199 .

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iTunes may still be the undisputed king of online music, but other contenders are gunning for its crown. Dan Moren summarizes the recent developments in online music and how Universal, Rhapsody, MTV, and even Wal-Mart might hope to muscle their way past iTunes.

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Wal-Mart said today that it is launching "DRM-free" MP3 music downloads. Single tracks will be 94 cents a piece and a whole album will sell for $9.22. The new MP3 digital format will allow users to play music on almost any device, including the iPod, iPhone and Zune portable media players. Wal-Mart's latest music venture will feature content from major record labels such as Universal and ...

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Tuesday it is now selling digital music downloads on its Web site without the customary copy-protection technology that limits where consumers can play the songs.

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Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) said Tuesday that it is now selling digital music downloads on its website without the customary copy-protection technology that limits where consumers can play the songs.

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Wal-Mart Stores said Tuesday that it was now selling digital music downloads on its website without the customary copy-protection technology.

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Rights-free tracks coming from US site Wal-Mart is to sell free of DRM-free MP3s on its website, which means tracks should play on competing multimedia players such as the iPod and Microsoft's Zune.

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