Nokia Corp. responded to rival Motorola Inc.'s recently launched Rokr iTunes-capable device with a music-driven tri-band GSM handset. The Nokia 3250 twists to transform its keypad into music keys and stores up to 1 gigabyte of music, which equates to about 750 songs. Motorola's...
Memory company SanDisk Corp. announced a major new initiative the company said will allow companies to sell music, movies and other content through removable memory cards. Such cards are becoming commonplace in mobile phones; research firm IDC forecasts 164 million phones shipping this year...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. released its new 2652 phone for emerging markets, which the company said will sell for around $122. The new phone comes on the heels of news that Nokia has sold more than 1 billion mobile phones worldwide since the company began...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. announced it will be the exclusive U.S. vendor of Motorola Inc.'s new Rokr E1 device, the company's long-awaited iTunes-capable phone. The device, which is available today for $250 with a two-year service plan, stores up to 100 songs from Apple Computer...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Universal Music Group will partner with SingleTouch Interactive to offer a music-focused phone with both pre-loaded and downloadable content such as ringtones and wallpapers. The handset, called MoveU Mobile, will include prepaid wireless service provided by SingleTouch on the Sprint PCS network....
As the wireless industry and others that provide content and value in the supply chain wrestle with digital rights management in the age of the third screen, those same players delve deeper into participatory and community journalism endeavors wherein the users become the content...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-The full-track wireless music download industry in the United States will reach $1.2 billion in revenue by 2009, according to a study from research firm IDC Corp.While the nascent industry faces a host of potential hurdles-including digital rights management issues, razor-thin sales margins...
While the wireless industry haggles over the price of anti-piracy software supported by the Open Mobile Alliance, Microsoft Corp. is quietly gaining traction in the mobile world with its proprietary digital rights management technology. The standoff continues between industry groups such as the GSM...
The wireless industry is putting its customers on commission. In an effort to retain customers and drive uptake, content providers and software developers are employing customer-retention programs designed to encourage users to recommend games, music or other content to friends. Recommendations resulting in sales...
The GSM Association again blasted proposed rates for licensing anti-piracy technology, calling the revised rates "unreasonable and unworkable." The trade association of more than 600 wireless operators rejected the latest royalties proposal from licensing clearinghouse MPEG LA for digital rights management software. MPEG LA's...
The GSM Association once again blasted proposed rates for licensing anti-piracy technology, calling recently revised rates "unreasonable and unworkable." The trade association of more than 600 wireless operators rejected the latest royalties proposal from licensing clearinghouse MPEG LA for digital rights management (DRM) software....
SUNOL, Calif.-The MultiMediaCard Association announced it will team with the Open Mobile Alliance standards group to develop copyright protection measures for removable MMC cards in mobile phones. Specifically, the MMCA said it will extend the OMA's digital rights management specifications to its SecureMMC version...
HOUSTON-Crown Castle Mobile Media will use technology from Microsoft Corp. to deliver and manage content for its live mobile TV service, the companies announced yesterday. The subsidiary of Crown Castle International Corp. said it has selected Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Video 9 and...
"The Spot" hopes to celebrate its first birthday by going even more high-tech. A weekly Web-based program that combines elements of both a soap opera and a reality show, "The Spot" complements its program daily with brief slide-show broadcasts to wireless handsets that allow...
DENVER-A group of technology firms looking to license anti-piracy software said it lowered its proposed royalty fees in response to protests from wireless carriers and handset manufacturers. MPEG LA, which has pooled licenses from five companies for digital rights management technology, cut proposed fees...
LONDON-Mobile software developer Amplefuture unveiled a new offering that allows music providers to market and deliver tunes directly to wireless users.Amplefuture said it will market Pocket Player to companies looking to launch their own branded digital music download services to handsets and PCs. The...
A group of technology firms looking to license anti-piracy software said Wednesday it has lowered its proposed royalty fees in response to protests from wireless carriers and handset manufacturers.MPEG LA, which has pooled licenses from five companies for digital rights management technology, cut proposed...
LONDON-The backlash against proposed rates to license digital rights management technology continued this week, with a powerful group of wireless carriers threatening to abandon the open-standard system. The GSM Association blasted royalties for the technology proposed earlier this year by the MPEG Licensing Authority...
The backlash against proposed rates to license digital rights management technology continued this week, with a powerful group of wireless carriers threatening to abandon the open-standard system.The GSM Association blasted royalties for the technology proposed earlier this year by the MPEG Licensing Authority for...
An association of mobile carriers and content firms joined the fight last week against a group of technology companies it said is looking to overcharge for anti-piracy software. The Mobile Entertainment Forum blasted a proposal by MPEG LA, the licensing authority of the Moving...
BALTIMORE-Security technology company SafeNet Inc. said it will acquire DMDsecure B.V., a Dutch digital rights management software developer, for $9.7 million in cash. SafeNet plans to combine its security offerings with DMD's content DRM server, according to SafeNet Chief Executive Officer Anthony Caputo, in...
BALTIMORE-Security technology company SafeNet Inc. said it will acquire DMDsecure B.V., a Dutch digital rights management software developer, for $9.7 million in cash.SafeNet plans to combine its security offerings with DMD's content DRM server, according to SafeNet Chief Executive Officer Anthony Caputo, in an...
A trade association of mobile operators and content providers took up the fight against a group of technology companies it said is looking to overcharge for anti-piracy software. In a prepared statement, the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) blasted a proposal by MPEG LA to...
DALLAS-Research and consulting firm Parks Associates said the mobile-phone industry is in a unique position to set digital rights management standards that will work for consumers and industry players."Unlike the personal computing and consumer electronics spaces, the mobile-phone industry has been able to develop...
