The Internet was ablaze this morning with the leak of a sensational memo from Nokia CEO Stephen Elop about the state of the company. Originally obtained by Engadget, (and reprinted in full below), the memo compares Nokia’s current predicament to that of a man on a burning oil rig, faced with the choice of either [...]
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What the Music Biz Can Learn From Nokia CEO’s ‘Burning Platform’ Memo
Posted by @brunotm on February 11th, 2011
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Mobile Music Downloads Struggle To Make Headway
Posted by @altair02 on May 20th, 2010
Fewer than 2% of mobile users in the United States and western Europe used their phone to download music in the first quarter, showing the uphill task facing Apple iTuneschallengers like Nokia. Although 24% listened to music on their phone, the vast majority loaded the tracks on to their handset from music they already had on a [...]
Nokia’s Comes with Music service is finally DRM free in China
Posted by @altair02 on April 11th, 2010
The website Engadget has been browbeating Nokia for using DRM to “protect” its Comes with Music offering ever since the service launched back in December of 2007 — a time when the industry was just beginning to shed its DRM shackles. Now Nokia just launched its all-you-can-eat (for 12, 18, or 24 months, typically) Comes with Music [...]
