-- Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) Mobile Launches in Italy: Telecom Italia has launched Napster Mobile in Italy. The service, co-developed by Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) and Napster will give subscribers access to…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will share revenue from Comes with Music service with operators that are cooperative, reports Bloomberg. “In those cases where we cooperate with operators, there will be an…

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A bit puzzling, since Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) announced the exact same plans in November last year as well...this time it says it has deals with three labels,…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is looking to add more music labels to its Comes With Music program.  The bundled music access initiative so far includes repertoire from Universal Music Group but…

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Juniper Research has issued its (typically bullish) predictions for mobile content, predicting the total global mobile content market will rise from $20 billion in 2007 to more than $64 billion…

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-- Virgin Group To Launch Mobile Venture in India: Richard Branson’s Virgin Group plans to enter the Indian mobile phone market, according to India’s Economic Times. There were no specific…

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UK-based Mobile entertainment company WIN Plc has today announced the acquisition of London-based mobile music company Pocket Group for up to 4.5 million pounds (US$8.77 million). Pocket Group will develop…

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JR Tokai Express Research has conducted a survey into Japan on the attitude towards the iPhone. Japan is considered a tough market for Apple because it’s already a sophisticated market…

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-- Myxer Goes To The UK: Ad-supported mobile content firm Myxer has launched their European operations with a UK version of their site. The site includes ringtones, wallpapers, videos and…

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-- Alltel (NYSE: AT) Synced Music: Alltel has launched a service for people to sync their handsets remotely with their PCs. This service—Music powered by Celltop—is run by mSpot, which…

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The most common method of getting music onto a phone is sideloading, which accounted for 83 percent of mobile music usage across France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and…

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In the tiny country of New Zealand, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is claiming it is the largest seller of music singles there: The company’s head of music, Morgan Donoghue, said Vodafone’s…

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Vivendi (EPA: VIV) announced today that deputy CFO Sandrine DuFour is stepping into the role of Chairman of Vivendi Mobile Entertainment (VME), vacated by Robert de Metz who has left…

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Digital music in the United States will increase from $1.98 billion in 2007 to $5.34 billion in 2012 according to the Yankee Group, but mobile will only account for 20…

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O2 UK has hired Matt Ward as its new head of music to be responsible for the operator’s music strategy, music services and the management of all music customer propositions.…

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SF-based Kadoink, a maker of widgets for bands, has raised a $7 million first round from Sutter Hill Ventures, reports VentureWire (via VentureBeat). The service, which counts Third Eye Blind…

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Subscription-based mobile music rental services which offer unlimited music downloads will eclipse the market for paid-for original recordings, and will provide the majority of revenues from original music recordings, according…

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-- Motorola has released a couple of handsets, its big hope for regaining marketshare. Motorola’s latest version of its Rokr handset, Rokr E8, takes a page out of Apple’s book.…

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Lately, talk about digital music has been dominated by the major labels’ moves away from DRM. Indeed, the hassle of DRM and the complexities and incompatibilities it brings have held…

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The Songwriters’ Association of Canada is proposing a CA$5 surcharge to every mobile and internet account in Canada, with the proceeds to be distributed to artists, labels and publishers reports…

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Nielsen has released some figures for the US music industry in 2007, showing either good news (overall unit purchases are up) or bad news (album-equivalent sales are down), depending on…

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Japanese child-targeted portal Kids goo conducted a survey on mobile phone use, with the results in What Japan Thinks. Bearing in mind all the problems with self-selected respondees to a…

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-- TV company Star India has signed a deal with Sony Ericsson to embed its mobile TV application Plus on two Cybershot/Walkman handsets. Star already has about 40,000 customers of…

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Not that this is news to regular readers here..we have been tracking the decline of aggregators and interest in the ringtone market for most of this year. NYT reports on…

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-- Guitar Hero III Out On Verizon: Activision’s (NSDQ: ATVI) mobile version of Guitar Hero III is now available exclusively to Verizon (NYSE: VZ) subscribers, for $4.49 per month or…

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