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MILPITAS, Calif.----SanDisk® Corporation , the world's largest supplier of flash storage card products, today announced results for the third quarter ended September 28, 2008, a non-binding MOU to restructure joint venture operations with Toshiba, a significant reduction in planned capital expenditures for 2009 and actions to reduce operating expenses. [News Source]

Dubbed slotMusic, the albums will come on microSD cards, a fingernail-size memory format that fits into a port on an increasing number of cell phones and other gadgets. [News Source]

Some people just don’t like the way the world is turning and think that if they go as fast as they can in the opposite direction, like Christopher Reeve’s Superman, it will spin their way. Last week, a coalition of four major labels announced SlotMusic, their latest attempt to sell consumers on a new music delivery format, and it looks like retail Kryptonite. The idea: SlotMusic consists of ... [News Source]

A top story from this week. The world's four largest music companies and SanDisk Corporation, a leading seller of MP3 players and flash memory cards in the United States, today unveiled the full list of artists joining the inaugural slotMusic line-up. [News Source]

Tunes-on-a-chip idea holds promise, but price will stifle uptake. [News Source]

The world's four biggest music corporations-- Universal , Warner , EMI , and Sony BMG ( soon to be Sony Music Entertainment Inc.)-- have teamed with MP3 player and memory card manufacturer SanDisk to create a new music media format called slotMusic . Here's how slotMusic works: These memory cards-- which come pre-loaded with albums in DRM-free MP3 format along with liner ... [News Source]