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Orb Networks has launched an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that brings users' home media collections to their mobile devices. OrbLive , which is available for $10 or as a free trial on the App Store, can pull media ranging from music to videos, photos, webcams and live TV. The application...
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-- Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) Adds Contacts To Sync For BlackBerry App: BlackBerry fans with a special place in their heart for Google services rejoice. Google Sync for BlackBerry has been updated to include two-way contacts synchronization. The downloadable application previously synched users' calendars...
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-- Verizon Wireless ( NYSE: VZ ) has exclusive Beyonce content: Prior to Beyonce's new album release "I AM.. SASHA FIERCE" on Nov. 18, Verizon Wireless will be able to offer its customers on V CAST Music. Starting tomorrow, Verizon Wireless customers will be able to download and purchase...
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Thumbplay , a New York-based mobile entertainment company, said today it is trimming its workforce for what they are expecting to be a prolonged economic downturn. Thumbplay wouldn't specify how many employees would be let go, but confirmed it was much lower than the 25 percent reported by Silicon...
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-- Thumbplay Goes On Deck with Cellular South: Cellular South is now featuring Thumbplay's mobile entertainment portal on the deck of many of its phones, marking one of the first times a U.S. wireless carrier has used a off deck content portal for its storefront. The store will offer 100,000 digtial...
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Nokia's Launces Traffic Program: Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) has launched a public pilot program out of its Silicon Valley-based research center to learn about GPS and traffic. Mobile Millennium, which is being done in collaboration with UC Berkeley's California Center for Innovative Transportation,...
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Sony ( NYSE: SNE ) Ericsson ( NSDQ: ERIC ), which is struggling to keep up in the very competitive handset market, announced two new mobile-music products today—one of its signature Walkman phones and an accompanying wireless home audio system. Both of these products will likely only be available in...
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Another unlimited DRM-free music service from a carrier—sort of. Vivendi-owned French operator SFR is planning to roll out a DRM-free unlimited music service on November 19, though the actual number of tracks is limited to a few thousand hits from the Universal Music Group catalog. The tracks--limited...
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Thumbplay has launched a full-track music store for mobile phones with a catalog of 1.5 million songs. With DRM-free tracks from Universal, EMI, The Orchard ( NSDQ: ORCD ) and INgrooves, Thumbplay is hoping to grab as much interest for full songs as it has with ringtones. As ringtone sales continue to...
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The BlackBerry Partners Fund, a $150 million pool of money focused on apps and services for the RIM-made device, had a little contest of its own (a la Google's Android developer challenge) and today awarded $150,000 from its venture fund to three companies: Poynt, Strands Social Player and Nobex...
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Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) confirmed in its earnings call last week that British carrier 3 UK would be offering its all-you-can eat music service on its N95 8GB handsets. Now dates and prices have been firmed up: the CWM enabled N95's will be available starting November 3 for £35 ($57) a month on an 18...
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Some interesting content stats from China's largest carrier China Mobile. The carrier, which has some 436 million subscribers at the end of September 2008, reported that it had over 100 million registered users for its mobile instant messaging tool Fetion. Its music service had 80 million users in...