ATT online music service

Taking aim at Apple's iTunes, AT&T Wireless has , offering subscribers the ability to purchase songs using their cell phones and later download them to a computer. The company is expected to offer roughly 750,000 tracks priced at 99 cents each, while full albums will start at $9.99, according to the AP. Songs as well as ringtones can be purchased from users' mobile phones and then allow customers to download songs over the Internet from a Web site in the Windows Media Player format. Developed by Loudeye, AT&T Wireless is also "marrying the service with its Music ID feature, which can recognize songs played into a phone's speaker and send text messages to users with information on the track."

by MacNN Staff