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Nokia announced today its partnership with Carphone
Warehouse, which will enable the release of the company’s Comes with Music
service in the United Kingdom. The free music package will be accompanied by a
new Nokia model expected to hit the retail stores next month.
The company explained that its offer is different from the
other ones available on the market, allowing users to keep all the tunes
downloaded through the service even after their contract ends. Users will have
a wide variety of songs to choose from, as Nokia managed to already sign
Universal, Sony BMG and Warner Music...
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Yahoo decided to put an end to its social-networking experiment,
Yahoo Mash, after only one year of activity.
All Mash members received an e-mail from Yahoo community
manager Matt Warburton, which noted: "Thank you for trying out our Mash
Beta service. We hope you had fun with it. Please note that we will shut down
Mash on September 29, 2008. As a result, your current profile on Mash will no
longer be available."
Yahoo Mash was developed as an upgrade for Yahoo 360, which
also failed to win the popularity contest with the other networking Web sites.
The service was...
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MegaFon, the third-largest mobile phone company in Russia, announced on Tuesday it will be Apple’s iPhone 3G distributor in the largest country on the globe. The Apple highly-anticipated, high-end handsets will hit Russian shelves later this year. The announcement comes after VimpelCom Group’s Beeline made public last Thursday its agreement with the Cupertino, California-based software maker to sell the iPhone in Russia. Many analysts and people familiar with the industry are expecting the third company of the big three – Mobile Telesystems (MTS) - to join in. MegaFon gave no details...
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Microsoft is making a new attempt to keep up with its
competitors, Sony and Nintendo, on the Japanese market. The US
company announced a new price for its Xbox 360, which starting next week will
be cheaper than Nintendo Wii.
The Xbox 360 Arcade edition, which comes with no hard drive,
will be priced at 19,800 yen ($180), nearly 30 percent down compared to its
previous price tag.
By comparison, Nintendo Wii, which made a name for itself as
“the cheapest gaming console”, is selling in Japan for 25,000 yen ($230).
The price cuts will affect the other version of Xbox 360...
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September
9, Yerba Buena Center for the Art,
San Francisco. That’s part of what a very secretive e-mail
sent by Apple to reporters read. The rest of the piece showed the fuchsia-colored silhouette of a man listening
to an iPod and also said “Let’s Rock” and “Playing Soon”.
Rumour has
it that the invitation is to the launch of a new iPod, since it is customary
for the company to stage a media event in September or October in order to
introduce the consumers to new such devices.
Another
reason could be, as American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu
believes, that Apple wants to...
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