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The biggest news this week was Amazon’s entry into the digital music download space. Amazon MP3 finally launched, offering DRM-free downloads with a catalog of over 2 million tracks. Can it compete with iTunes? See our full review.

The other major announcement of the week came from the DigitalLife trade show held in New York, where Microsoft made a number of Windows Media Center-related announcements: New media extenders from its hardware partners Cisco, D-Link, Niveus and HP, along with the Beta launch of a new Internet TV service called — wait for it — “Internet TV”.

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This week’s news was dominated by announcements from the major U.S. televisions networks, relating to their developing Internet TV strategies. CBS Chief Executive Les Moonves talked up the company’s relationship with Apple’s iTunes Store; NBC announced that they will be launching a new TV catchup service called “NBC Direct” which will enable users to download and view some of the network’s more popular shows, free of charge, for up to one week after broadcast; ABC has begun streaming some of its most popular shows on Time Warner-owned AOL; and Fox are offering free downloads of season premieres of seven of its shows through iTunes.

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The biggest digital lifestyle news this week was in the digital music space. UK mobile carrier Vodafone announced that it will offer Omnifone’s MusicStation service, which has been hailed as the most significant online music venture since iTunes. For a weekly fee of £1.99 (just over $4) users can “download” and share with other MusicStation users as much music as they want. Most importantly, this fee covers all data charges, which can be costly and have kept people from downloading more music and utilizing the carriers’ 3G networks. All four music labels are taking part in MusicStation — the Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, EMI, and Warner.

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The biggest digital lifestyle news this week was Apple’s almost complete refresh of its iPod lineup. The iPod Shuffle got new colors, the Nano got fatter and support for video, the iPod Video became the Classic (with up to 160GB capacity), and Apple launched a brand new device: the iPod Touch, which may just be the iPhone without the phone that I was hoping for.

Lots of Internet TV-related news too.

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We kicked off the week with news of “Go!Messenger”, the video, voice and IM chat service coming to PlayStation Portable. Developed in partnership with telco BT, “Go!Messenger” will first launch in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy this January, “before extending its reach to more than 100 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.” No mention of North America, so as with Sony’s recently announced DVR solution for the PS3, U.S. customers look set to miss out.

However, the biggest news this week was Nokia’s transformation into a mobile web services company, with the launch of its “Ovi” brand.

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We began the week with news that Adobe has released a Beta of the latest version of its near ubiquitous Web video software, Adobe Flash Player 9, which adds improved image quality through support for the industry standard H.264 codec.

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In a post titled ‘Google shows why DRM is evil‘ we looked at Google’s decision to abandon paid-for video downloads, noting that, as of this week, purchased videos will no longer playback, and instead users are being a given refund in the form of a Google Checkout “bonus”. One of the inherit problems with DRM is that if a company goes bust or, presumably in Google’s case, decides to shut down the servers it uses to verify a legitimate purchase, then any DRM’d media is rendered useless.

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Kicking off the week, we reported on Amazon’s investment in AmieStreet.com. The social music site has a unique business model where all songs start off free and rise in price — up to 98 cents — the more they are purchased.

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Lots of news this week.

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Joost co-founder, Niklas Zennström, revealed that the Internet TV service now has one million Beta testers, and is on track to fully launch by the end of the year. Speaking at a Skype press event, Zennström also acknowledged the challenge of scaling the peer-to-peer video platform, and stressed that the company’s main priority was ease-of-use.