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We had doubts that Apple had actually overtaken Wal-Mart as the number one music retailer in the US, but it looks as though the rise of iTunes gift cards sales and new iPod owners made Apple succeed. Apple is not doing much to celebrate but is still going to offer “4 billion songs to 50 million customers”, but it says iTunes was the big dog January and February. Of course, there’s a lot of 2008 left, so Wal-Mart may surpass iTunes again.

NBC has just launched their download service, which is now in beta. The service allows free downloads of NBC shows up to seven days after they are shown on TV, at the moment Windows and IE only are supported. Sorry all you mac users you will have to wait. The download shows are delete automatically after 48 hours, and the plugin installation is a pain using Windows Media. In the future we hope for more platform and software support but it is a good start.