More Music News For Mon. 7/27: Spotify & Pre iPhone Apps, Streaming, Qtrax, MySpace Games

• Hands on with the Spotify iPhone app. whuch has just been submitted for Apple's approval. (Epicenter) Or watch a video first look here.
• Cat & Mouse Chapter 2: A Palm Pre upgrade reinstates the iTunes synch feature that Apple has blocked. (Palm)
• UK music industry’s own economist says revenue up 4.7%. (ZeroPaid)
• New survey ays that the German live music business is shrinking. (Billboard)
• Music streaming appears to be changing teen habits including a drop off in downloading. (NYT)
• "Congrats, RIAA: Chilling Effects Have Killed Interest In New Digital Music Startups" (Techdirt)
• SongVest to auction royalties for 80's hits "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off"  and "Miss You Like Crazy" (press release)
• Qtrax: ”We are nothing if not dogged…” (Music Ally)
• Could MySpace + Yahoo Games = A New Online Gaming Powerhouse? (paidContent)
• Live Nation (NYSE: LYV), the world's largest live music company,  will release second quarter 2009 financial results after market hours on Thursday, August 6, 2009. (press release)
• One in Three Is A Music Pirate: A report just published by the market research firm Interpret has tapped into the downloading habits of a massive 64 million respondents. From this group, well over a third admitted to downloading music illegally through file-sharing networks and BitTorrent, but that doesn’t mean they don’t buy any music.(TorrentFreak)