• As part of the 100-day plan of new Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, Yahoo Music is expected to be trimmed and its subscription music service could be retooled or shut down completely. (Reuters)

• Antitrust lawyers insist the new line of iPods indicate Apple is as anticompetitive as ever. Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins and other lawyers have a class-action lawsuit against Apple over its "anticompetitive products." The issue is the iPod's inability to play protected formats other than its proprietary FairPlay protected AAC format. A court date has not yet been set. (Wired)

• The Times Online profiles Rough Trade Records and looks at what the influential indie has done since it teamed up with Beggars Banquet. "We’ve got the first solo album from (the former Cocteau Twins vocalist) Elizabeth Fraser, new work from the Strokes and Belle and Sebastian; Antony (and the Johnsons) is making a new album, Green (Gartside) is working hard on a new Scritti Politti record and Sufjan is making a new record. Which state? He hasn’t revealed that yet.” (Times Online)

• Following LiveNation's entry into the Facebook widget scene, TicketLeap.com now has a widget that will allow Facebook users the ability to sell up to 5,000 tickets to their own events. TicketLeap.com caps each ticket price at $200. (Ticket News)

• Vodafone U.K. has unveiled its new music service. MusicStation, a collaboration with Omnifone, will allow users to download an unlimited number of songs from a catalog that includes all four majors. The service costs ₤2 ($4) per week. That's more than an annual subscription to either Rhapsody, Napster or Zune. (MarketWatch)

• Indie label firm PIAS Group has acquired a 50% stake in mobile marketing and distribution company Indie Mobile. PIAS looks at the deal as a tool to better serve its roster of over 400 labels. Five-year-old Indie Mobile offers such services as mobile licensing, content creation, retailing and marketing. (Billboard.biz)

• Try as I might, I just don't have much of an opinion on the ringle format. Billboard's Ed Christman calls ringtones a "phenomenon." Christman knows his stuff, but aren't ringtones stagnant? If ringtones weren't a stagnant format, would labels be putting them on physical discs and selling them in national retail chains like Wal-Mart and Target? No. But hey, leave no stone unturned. P.S. Somebody start a ringle Wikipedia page. The only current ringle page is for Ringle, Wisconsin. (Billboard)