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- Amazon snares top labels for cloud music service
Amazon reached deals with four major music companies that will allow the online retailer to stream songs through its Amazon Cloud Player, a digital locker service designed to compete with Apple's iTunes. Amazon, which is seeking content to play on its Kindle Fire tablet, said users will also be able to access the service on any Android device, Apple's iPhone and via a Web browser. The cloud player offers a free streaming service that lets users store up to 250 songs as well as a $25 annual premium version with a 250,000-song limit. Bloomberg Businessweek
(7/31), The New York Times (tiered subscription model)/Media Decoder blog
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- Samsung enters streaming-music arena with Music Hub
Samsung Electronics will take on streaming music services, such as Spotify, with its new Music Hub, which will run on its flagship Galaxy S III smartphone, the company said Tuesday. Samsung leveraged its recent purchase of mSpot to create the service, which can be accessed through its own Samsung App Store or Google Play. For now, AT&T and U.S. Cellular subscribers can use the $10 monthly service, which also offers cloud storage capacity. Computerworld
(7/31)
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- Fujitsu to own majority of smartphone chip JV with NEC, NTT DoCoMo
Access Network Technology is being established by Fujitsu and other Japanese companies to compete with Qualcomm in the market for smartphone ICs. The joint venture will design and sell wireless communications chips, while likely outsourcing production. Fujitsu will own 52.8% of the JV, with the remaining share being cut up among NTT DoCoMo (19.9%), NEC (17.8%) and Fujitsu Semiconductor (9.5%). Reuters
(8/1), PCWorld/IDG News Service
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- Microsoft pursues "patent peace" with Motorola
Microsoft reached out to Google's Motorola Mobility unit in a blog post hoping to arrive at a comprehensive agreement to settle all the companies' patent disputes. "Any approach that does not lead to the cessation of all the pending litigation will be short-lived," the company's top attorneys wrote, adding that Motorola must pay "fair market rates" to license Microsoft's technology. All Things D
(7/31), PC Magazine
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- Will Clearwire be a victim in Sprint's iDEN network shutdown?
Clearwire reportedly may have to leave some of its wholesale customers in the lurch following Sprint Nextel's decision to shutter its iDEN network. Some of Clearwire's WiMAX-based gear is co-located with the iDEN sites, and the company said in a government filing that it will likely stop operating at those locations by terming its equipment obsolete sooner than anticipated. Light Reading Mobile
(7/31)
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- Facebook reports rising mobile-only figures
The number of subscribers who accessed Facebook only through their mobile devices rose by 23% in the second quarter, the social media company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing which noted that 102 million of its 543 million monthly mobile users relied solely on those devices, compared to 83 million in March. CNET
(7/31)
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