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Hit streaming service Spotify eyes U.S. music fansDENVER (Billboard) - MTV Urge ... Yahoo Music Unlimited ... Virgin Digital ... Since 2003 -- when iTunes launched in the United States -- all of these digital music services have come and gone, without challenging Apple's market dominance, despite the backing of resource-rich parent companies.
Reuters Monday, November 02, 2009Sony PlayTV release in weeksSONY PlayStation 3 owners will be able to use their games console as a Tivo-like HD TV recorder when PlayTV ships later this month.
Australian IT Monday, November 02, 2009Wolfe's Den Podcast: Windows 7 Virtually SpeakingOur columnist ponders the demise of virtual private networks (VPNs), examines virtual hard disks (VHDs), and chats with Gavriella Schuster, Microsoft's Windows client general manager, and Ward Ralston, Windows Server product manager.
Information Week Monday, November 02, 2009Cubans say access to online market site is blockedHAVANA (Reuters) - A popular website of classified ads that has given Cubans a taste of the free market has been blocked on the communist-run island,
internet users said.
Reuters Monday, November 02, 2009Global CIO: Juniper Attacks Cisco Head-On With Help Of IBM And DellColumn about Juniper Networks' attempt to become the top networking supplier via its powerful new products and its equally powerful new alliances with IBM and Dell.
Information Week Monday, November 02, 2009ICANN Approves International Domain NamesWeb addresses will expand beyond the Roman letters A-Z and digits 0-9.
Information Week Monday, November 02, 2009Nokia to close N-Gage platform(Telecompaper) Nokia plans to close its N-Gage mobile
gaming
platform, in favour of selling games on its Ovi Store. In a posting on the N-Gage blog,
the company said it will stop selling games on N-Gage at the end of September 2010. While the N-Gage.com site together with the N-Gage Arena and other community features will
remain in operation throughout 2010, the Ovi Store will be the new central place for all the mobile games that Nokia and other publishers offer from this point forward. Nokia will no longer publish new games for the N-Gage platform, and will not ship any more handsets with the N-Gage application pre-installed. The Ovi Store already
offers over 1,000 games and is accessible from 100 Nokia handset models in over 180 countries. Ovi offers the possibility of posting reviews of games, and Nokia plans to add more community elements to the site for gamers.
DMeurope.com Monday, November 02, 2009Alfa mulls merger of Megafon, Turkcell assets(Telecompaper) Russian investor Alfa Group is planning to combine its minority stakes in Russian mobile operator Megafon and Turkey's Turkcell into a single
company, the Wall
Street Journal
reports, citing Alexei Reznikovich, CEO of Alfa's telecoms unit. Swedish operator TeliaSonera, currently a shareholder in both Megafon and Turkcell, would get a minority stake alongside Alfa and other shareholders, Reznikovich added. According to the Alfa
executive, a merger of Megafon and Turkcell assets would create a
company worth
around USD 30 billion, and
nearly USD 50 billion when
international markets recover. Norwegian telecoms group Telenor and Russia's Alfa Group recently ended a five-year legal dispute with a deal to merge their telecom holdings in Russia and Ukraine. Alfa and Telenor will merge their holdings in Russia and Ukraine into a Netherlands-headquartered company
called Vimpelcom. Neither side will have control over the new company, which will be listed in the US.
DMeurope.com Monday, November 02, 2009TIM Brasil reverses losses in Q3(Telecompaper) Mobile operator TIM Brasil recorded a net profit of BRL 61 million in the third quarter, against a loss of BRL 12 million in the same period in
2008 and BRL 15 million in Q2. Total net revenue was BRL 3.3 billion, an increase of 1 percent over Q2 and down 2 percent compared to Q3
2008. EBITDA totaled BRL 759 million, an increase of 3.1 percent on a quarterly basis. TIM invested BRL 536 million in the quarter, up from BRL 511 million a year ago. Approximately 80 percent of this went for IT and network.
the company ended the quarter with 39.6 million customers, up 12.5 percent over the same period last year and up 4.7 percent on Q2. TIM had 6.3 million postpaid subscribers and 33.3 million prepaid users at the end of September. In the third quarter, the
company had net additions of 1.8 million lines, representing an increase of 27.5 percent year over year and 2.6 percent over the second quarter of 2008. TIM Brasil said it expects to close its acquisition of long-distance o
DMeurope.com Monday, November 02, 2009'Come to think of it, eBay'--killer ad motto or desperate plea?Auction site kicks off a new ad campaign before the holiday-shopping
season shifts into high gear.
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