U.S.-based premium music subscription service, Rhapsody announced today that it has acquire Napster International in the UK and Germany, hence finally making its presence felt in Europe. Napster International has established itself as Europe’s first flat-rate subscription music service. Rhapsody president Jon Irwin said that the acquisition of Napster and its subscriber base in UK more »

The on-demand music streaming business is more competitive now than it has ever been before. This is especially true since MOG introduced FreePlay and Spotify gave away six months of free service for new users. Rdio is going to have a free option too. In an effort to stay above the competition, Rhapsody announced it has decided to purchase Napster for an undisclosed amount.

Napster has just announced the availability of its mobile music streaming service to Android and iOS devices users in the UK. Previously available only in the US, Napster’s mobile app for iOS devices and Android phones and tablets offers instant access to the full Napster catalogue of more than 15 million music tracks via your more »

Napster launched their Android app a few weeks back and while we were excited to see them come to Android, they did leave off one fairly nice feature — offline playback. Well, as it turns out they must not have forgotten entirely because an updated version of the app is now available in the Android more »

Napster has recently added their subscription-service based mobile app into the Android Market. Yup, Napster is now available for Android. The app can be found rather easily by searching for ‘napster’ within the Market or scanning the QR image code below. The app comes as a free download, however, actually using the app does require more »

Those looking to stream music on-demand to their iPhone now have yet another option to do so. And this one comes by way of the legendary name and still decent service — Napster. In terms of price and features. By far, the most important numbers include that the service will set you back just $10 more »

The RIAA filed documents in a New York court Friday, demanding that it issue a permanent injunction against LimeWire, the largest P2P file sharing network in the country. The group, which represents the 4 top record labels, has been widely despised for years thanks to it’s insistence on doing everything it can to fight the more »

Slacker Radio, one of the many online and mobile options for radio, is rumored to be adding on-demand music playback to their service. The Pandora, Last.fm, and let’s not forget regular radio competitor will soon be taking on a whole new force in Rhapsody, Spotify, and Napster by allowing users to choose what songs they more »

Napster has just unveiled their latest plans to stay relevant in the subscription based music space. Putting aside the fact that many, myself included, had long since forgotten about Napster, they may be worth a second chance.

Napster will be offering a low-priced monthly deal, and by low priced I mean 5 bucks. What you will get for that price is a service that is similar to what we have with the Zune. In other words, you will be getting a combination of all-you-can-eat subscription downloads as well as five tracks to download and keep each month. Honestly that is not bad for that price.

I would say that Napster is finally doing something right with this offer, at this price you are basically buying five tracks each month, that is assuming you are paying a buck a track and getting the subscription portion as a bonus.

AT&T’s latest offering, the Sony Ericsson W760a Walkman phone may not be that big as other mobile phone announcements made recently, but it certainly scored a first for the U.S. mobile phone market — the first 3G Walkman phone ever to hit stateside.

The W760a like the previous Sony Ericsson Walkman phones, W350 and W580 released by AT&T, features Sony’s famous Walkman music player and AT&T’s Mobile Music applications. You’ll have access to XM Radio, eMusic mobile and Napster on the W760a.

Find out more about Sony’s Walkman phone after the break.