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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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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 controversy surrounding next Tuesday's vote at the FCC on white spaces is heating up as bigger names enter the debate. The regulatory agency will vote on whether to open the unused spectrum for auction, however there's continued debate about the potential for interference with adjacent airwaves...
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-- Perez Hilton Launches Mobile Site: The celebrity gossip site that made the Paint application cool again with rudimentary white dots and lines on celebrity photos has launched a mobile site . In addition to opening up the site's archives on mobile, the gossip blog now gives readers the ability...
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Pandora laid off 20 of its 140 employees today, founder Tim Westergren announced in a blog post . Pandora has seen incredible success with its application for the iPhone that was released when the App Store launched. Earlier this month, Westergren said the application has helped Pandora double its growth...
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Heaven only knows where they got this figure, but market researcher TNS Technology reckons the emerging unlimited mobile music services like Nokia's ( NYSE: NOK ) Comes With Music an SonyEricsson's ( NSDQ: ERIC ) PlayNow Plus could see UK users download 2.1 billion tracks per year. To put that...
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GoTV Networks, which produces videos about the music industry and others for both mobile and broadband networks, is getting close to launching a social media widget for sites like Facebook, where people can store and share videos, images, audio and text, mocoNews has learned. The application, called...
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Sony ( NYSE: SNE ) Ericsson ( NSDQ: ERIC ) won't be outdone by Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ). The struggling handset maker is launching an all-you-can eat mobile music service in the next few weeks, in an attempt to boost flagging handset sales. Sony Ericsson's Play Now Plus service will only be available...
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The battle and gamble over unlimited music services has arrived. Once Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) came out of the gate last December with its Comes With Music concept, much of the music industry seems to be following their lead and in some cases beating Nokia to the punch. In Australia today Vodafone ( NYSE...
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