They will offer it to wireless carriers around the world over the next year, they said. However, Ericsson's long-established relationships with carriers could help Napster gain ground in what is new territory for a primarily PC-focused company.
Mobile operators believe they can be the biggest music retailers in the country. Samsung is rumoured to be readying a music mobile with on-board multi-gigabit memory too. With people showing so little interest in buying CD singles, it was no wonder...
Additional spectrum and the development of new 4G technologies will become important as carriers add more bandwidth-intensive applications such as mobile TV. All three of the big US mobile phone carriers - Cingular Wireless, Sprint Nextel and...
Microsoft is hoping to boost its fortunes - and grab some market share from archrival Nokia - by creating software that can be more easily customised by device makers and wireless carriers. Gates, who will announce the new version at a mobile...
The wireless-entertainment firm has similar arrangements with ESPN and Rolling Stone, and distributes that content to subscribers through agreements with major wireless carriers such as Cingular, Nextel, T-Mobile and Verizon.
The Tungsten W will sell for $549, or about £335, without a service contract, although Palm said that wireless carriers may subsidise the devices to offer them at a lower price to those who sign up for a service contract.
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