Capitalizing on the re-aunch of Napster on Thursday, Samsung has announced a new digital audio player that can store up to 5,000 songs on its 20GB hard drive. The company said the co-branded YP-910GS is the only player that’s designed to operate with the Napster 2.0 service. Subscribers will be able to access more than 500,000 songs from all five …

Apple Computer is expected next week to expand its online music service to Windows-based computers. The Mac maker has scheduled an event for next Thursday at San Francisco’s Moscone West convention hall. “The year’s biggest music story is about to get even bigger,” Apple said in an invitation to journalists. The company is expected to launch the long-awaited Windows version …

At an open meeting Wednesday of a peer-to-peer forum backed by the parent company of Kazaa, the discussion will turn to a seemingly improbable concept: how to eliminate piracy from file-swapping networks. But in their bid to win respectability–as well as economic and legal breathing room–that’s just what Distributed Computing Industry Alliance (DCIA) founding members Sharman Networks and the affiliated …