A day ahead of the launch of Apple Computer’s iTunes music store in Europe, local rival On Demand Distribution, or OD2, on Monday rolled out a new streaming service aimed at bolstering its appeal against the powerful newcomer. As announced in January, the new service will allow listeners to pay just .01 euro (1 cent) per song, without being billed …

Commentary: A tougher sell for iTunes By Forrester Research Special to CNET News.com June 15, 2004, 4:30PM PT by Paul Jackson and Rebecca Ulph Jennings, analysts With Apple Computer’s launch of the iTunes Music Store in Britain, France and Germany, many Europeans can now buy songs from the world’s most successful online music service. But times have changed since the …

Technology aimed at identifying and blocking copyrighted songs as they’re being traded on file-swapping networks is beginning to move into high schools. Filtering technology from Audible Magic has been installed at several high schools around the country, most recently at private Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, Calif., and a technical high school in Cape Cod, Mass., the company said. …