Entries from June 2008

Verizon Wireless Gets Rhapsody Music Subscriptions

Date June 30, 2008

Verizon Wireless today introduced Rhapsody’s subscription music service, allowing its customers to download as much music as they want to their phones for $15 per month. Rhapsody is following in the tracks of Napster, Apple’s iTunes and Amazon.com, all of which have introduced MP3 downloads and moved away from digital rights management, or DRM, which prevents copying and piracy, but also makes it difficult to legally move music between devices. Rhapsody also provides 30-second music samples that…

Nokia to Acquire Symbian Limited

Date June 30, 2008

Nokia today announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share. The net cash outlay from Nokia to purchase the approximately 52% of Symbian Limited shares it does not already own will be approximately EUR 264 million.

Nokia has received irrevocable undertakings from Sony Ericsson Mobile

Opera Mobile 9.5 Public Beta To Face The Mobile World July 15

Date June 29, 2008

The Opera Mobile 9.5 public beta version will finally be available on July 15. This was announced recently by Opera after an extensive delay left everyone hanging as to when they can experience the new mobile web browser’s added features and improvements.

Initially introduced in January, the Opera 9.5 had to be kept under wraps for some time to ensure its overall reliability and conformity

Nokia Music PC client Updated with Bug Fixes

Date June 29, 2008

Nokia has released a new version of the Nokia Music PC client today, which will fix over one hundred defects according to the update news: “Things we have been able to solve include a large number of ‘stability’ type defects, the ‘Unknown Artist’ bug, as well as a number of issues around device connection.”

To upgrade to this new version, you can just install the new version over the old

Pink Samsung Soul Available in UK

Date June 29, 2008

Phones 4u in UK has start selling the Samsung Soul (SGH-U900), in a special pink color. At only 12.9mm thin, Samsung Soul equipped with a 5 megapixel camera. Features such as face detection, image stabilizer and Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) are also equipped in Soul.

With magical touch by DaCPTM, navigation indicators on the keypad of the phone change according to the user’s needs, making