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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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-- 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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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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More details are emerging about Sony ( NYSE: SNE ) Ericsson's ( NSDQ: ERIC ) unlimited music service, which sounds a lot like Nokia's ( NYSE: NOK ) upcoming "Comes With Music." Quoting recording-label sources, CNet reports today that the service is expected to launch within the next...
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In 2013, more than 140 million subscribers will be part of a mobile social network, and that they will generate $410 million from subscriptions alone, which doesn't include revenues from mobile advertising, according to a report recently released by ABI Research . To get a sense of where things stand...
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Thumbplay confirmed today it has signed a deal with Warner Music Group ( NYSE: WMG ) to add content from artists such as Kid Rock and Missy Elliot to its catalog of ringtones, graphics and videos. The content started to appear on the site this week, and a Thumbplay spokesperson confirmed today that it...
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As Nokia Corp ( NYSE: NOK ). inches toward launching its "Comes With Music" flat-rate subscription service before the end of the year, the company's head of global music, Elizabeth Schimel , said she's hopeful EMI Music will come on board before it goes live. "We are optimistic...
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In the last few years, Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) has been steadily repositioning itself from hardware manufacturer to "a next-generation entertainment company." The NYT has an interview with Tero Ojanpera, the Nokia EVP of entertainment and communities heading the Finnish giants efforts. It hasn't...
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At the London Calling music conference on Thursday, there was little doubt among the panel assembled to discuss the value of music on mobiles that cell phones would one day be the sole device that consumers used to access and listen to music. But what was in question was how to give consumers that access...
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-- Skweezer has launched a new ad service. Skweezer Ads is an online advertising service that puts both desktop and mobile ads in a single ad feed, with a cut-and-paste code that detects the device used to view the ad (to view the page, really) and displaying the correct type of ad to each visito. And...