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Nokia and EMI Music announce marketing and content agreement

Posted On: Thu, 29/03/2007 - 10:27 by Alex

Nokia Press release: "New York, NY - Nokia, a world leader in mobile communications, and EMI Music, one of the world's leading music companies, have announced a marketing and content agreement in which EMI artists, beginning with Capitol Music Group artists Lily Allen and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, will be featured in Nokia's Flagship Store locations worldwide, as well as Nokia's Experience Centers, theater locations and certain Nokia music-related websites across North America. EMI will be the exclusive major label provider of music content for the retail program, and new content from its artists will be added and featured every 60 days."

I don't know why the "Ring Nokia" chap thinks DRM won't be involved in the deal - most current Nokia devices are compliant with the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) 2.0 DRM standard, and while EMI has flirted with the distribution of DRM-free music, I don't see anything in the press release which suggests that the content provided won't be locked down.

Who knows.

On a brighter note, lets hope that this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship. With the iPhone approaching, it would be a really good idea for Nokia to have an answer to the iTunes Music Store (operators have been trying their darndest) and OTA downloads would be useful- although to be honest, given the Zune's current lack of the feature it's entirely unclear if even the iPhone will sport this functionality.

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64GB 2.5" Flash Hard Drive from PQI - 0 boot time, here we come!

Posted On: Wed, 07/06/2006 - 10:56 by Alex

PQI, a taiwanese manufacturer, has released a range of 2.5" SATA flash hard disks with capacities up to 64GB. Shocking, particularly because well respected sources indicated as little as 6 months ago that a 4 year timeframe for such deployment was optimistic.

There is no indication of cost yet; the product isn't even on the official PQI website; and we certainly didn't expect this news now, so soon after there were reports that flash memory capacity was being strained by Apple's purchase of large quantities of flash memory (for a nano-update), so we're not entirely sure that the news is kosher.

Should it be true, we're in for a great time, subnotebook-wise. Flash uses less battery life, and is faster. We're not sure if the device deals with the limited number of writes that flash memory can handle, but no doubt details about that will surface soon.

And perhaps Window Vista's "readyboost" won't be entirely useless...

[via Newlaunches]

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