Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) has struck a deal with record label Warner Music to give the operator’s customers early access to music and mobile content from Madonna’s new album, “Hard Candy,”…

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This wasn’t what I was expecting, but Groove Mobile, the mobile music player, has finally been bought: LiveWire Mobile, a subsidiary of NMS Communications has bought the Bedford, MA based…

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Napster (NSDQ: NAPS), very slowly building up its mobile operator clients, has signed on UK and European operator O2, to launch a music service on the operator’s platform. Five million…

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Thumbplay, the mobile content retailer which is rumored to be on sale, is apparently not. It has raised a big $18 million fifth round, from its previous investors and new…

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Puretracks, a Toronto-based digital music provider, is launching a music service for BlackBerrys that could help make RIM’s (NSDQ: RIMM) enterprise-focused devices more consumer-friendly. RIM will be under increasing pressure…

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-- Nokia Launches UK Music TV Program: Another content foray for Nokia (NYSE: NOK). The Finnish handset giant is launching a music TV program on Channel 4 in the UK…

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-- Sprint (NYSE: S) bringing faster speeds to HTC’s Mogul: Sprint said it is releasing a software update for the Mogul so that it can connect to a faster data…

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Mobile search and audio streaming firm UpSnap and mobile content delivery company Mobile Greetings have called off their proposed merger in the wake of weak financial markets. The two agreed…

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Pop artist Will.i.am, the brains behind the Black Eyed Peas, is proving to be quite the mobile content maven. Will.i.am has struck a deal with RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) to make…

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South Korea’s largest mobile operator SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) said today it is purchasing a 42.2 percent stake in Chinese music recording company Beijing-based Taihe Rye Music to allow it…

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Talk about suspect numbers: IDC has come out with some wild predictions: that worldwide wireless subscribers and customers to grow by a little more than a billion over the next…

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This time the regulatory authorities have nabbed a big fish in the quest to clean up the ringtones and mobile content subscription business: AT&T (NYSE: T) Mobility. The company has…

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With Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel unveiling its unlimited wireless plan today, all four of the major U.S. wireless carriers have released comparative offerings, giving us a chance to step back,…

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The ringtone market has taken its bumps and turns along the way, with aggregators falling by the wayside, but in the end, the one who owns the rights to the…

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New York-based Thumbplay said it now has distribution agreements with three of the top four record labels with today’s addition of Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG. The new partnership adds about…

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French media and telecoms giant Vivendi (EPA: VIV) has commercially launched its previously announced entertainment portal Zaoza today, which offers unlimited downloads of content—including music, ringtones, video clips and games—for…

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Omnifone’s MusicStation, a subscription mobile music service giving all-you-can-eat music for £1.99 a week, clocked up over 500,000 track downloads within 10 days of debuting on Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) late…

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Will.i.am, the brains behind Black-Eyed Peas and a switched-on digital media brand surfer with a couple of online music businesses under his auspices, shared his words of wisdom from an…

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If you thought Universal Music Group’s all-you-can-eat music access endeavors were just experiments, check digital SVP Rob Wells’ comments on a music panel at Mobile World Congress: “The start and…

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EMI has licensed Jamba to provide what the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and Verisign-owned mobile entertainment outfit says is the label’s first DRM-free repertoire in Europe to cross both mobile…

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More detail on yesterday’s preview. Universal Music Group has licensed its tunes to Omnifone’s new out-of-the-box all-you-can-eat download service, meaning Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has company in the pre-licensed music market.…

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British mobile music firm Omnifone will take on Apple’s iTunes and Nokia’s Comes With Music service with a cell phone loaded with its tethered download subscription-based MusicSation service which it…

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Next month, well-known rapper Timbaland will start to record a mobile album by literally creating tracks while on the go. The stunt has been organized by Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ)…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has founded a new advisory group within its recently created Nokia Entertainment and Communities Group to help ensure that revenues are shared fairly with artists as new…

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Warner Music saw ringtone sales fall in the US and remain “flat” internationally in the first quarter, according to CFO Michael D. Fleisher speaking during the company’s earnings call Wednesday.…

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