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LONDON (Reuters) - Mozart's year-long 250th birthday party is ending on a high note with the musical scores of his complete works available from Monday for the first time free on the Internet.

LONDON (Reuters) - Global digital music sales almost doubled in 2006 to around $2 billion, or 10 percent of all sales, but have not reached the industry's "holy grail" of offsetting the fall in CD sales, a trade organization said.

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile , Research) faces some tough hurdles if it decides to roll out a mobile phone built around its popular iPod music player, Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile , Research) entertainment chief said on Monday.

CANNES, France (Reuters) - With global music sales down for a seventh straight year, the talk at an annual industry meeting in Cannes, France, has become heated over how to develop digital sales against competition from the dreaded F word -- free.

LONDON (Reuters) - The majority of consumers have not yet accepted the subscription model to rent rather than buy music but this is likely to change over the next year, according to the head of the online service Napster Inc..