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Europe Wakes To iPhone 3G: Fanboys On The Frontline, Some Crashes - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Jul 2008 01:14 AM PST

If my local O2 and Carphone Warehouse stores were anything to go by, there was no-one queuing and zero buzz for the long-awaited iPhone 3G. But that was 10pm last…

Mobile Content Bits: iPhone 3G Demand, Iliad Buys Alice, Yahoo Serves 3 UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jul 2008 05:07 AM PST

-- iPhone Demand In UK Overwhelms O2 Site: It’s four days before Apple’s iPhone goes on sale in the UK, and it looks like mobile operator O2, may not be…

iPhone Interest Quadruples For O2 UK, 30 Million Global Sales Forecast - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 17 Jun 2008 12:40 AM PST

Maybe Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will meet that 10 million iPhones target after all. O2, the exclusive UK carrier, says more than 130,000 people have used its online form to pre-register…

@ WWDC: 3G iPhone Available From July 11, Free On Top Tariffs - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 09 Jun 2008 02:09 PM PST

O2 and Carphone Warehouse have confirmed they will offer both versions of Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) new 3G iPhone, announced Monday evening. Suggesting Apple has allowed O2 a degree of subsidisation,…

Apple Launches UK And Canada iTunes Movie Store - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 04 Jun 2008 08:27 PM PST

Putting an end to the guesswork of the iTunes movie store launch date, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has begun offering titles for sale or rent to its UK and Canadian iTunes…

Radiohead: ‘iTunes Killed The Greatest Hits Compilation’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 12 May 2008 12:36 AM PST

Best Of compilations usually are released when an artist dies, a band needs to fulfil a contract or a label is trying to make cash off a recently-departed group. In…

ITV Sells Old Shows Via iTunes; Why Now? - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 22 Apr 2008 04:45 AM PST

Despite the imminent arrival of Kangaroo, ITV (LSE: ITV) has just got around to striking a digital distribution deal with iTunes Store. In true long-tail fashion, some of its popular…

Mobile Content Bits: CricInfo For iPhone; Male Media Use; 3 UK/Fun Text - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Apr 2008 06:10 AM PST

-- CricInfo Widget for iPhone: ESPN (NYSE: DIS) subsidiary cricket site CricInfo has launched a mobile widget for the iPhone. Cricinfo Mobicast, created by widget tech firm Plusmo, provides iPhone…

Broadband Content Bits: BBC Bandwidth Manifesto; Bebo Drama Figs; iTunes German TV - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 03 Apr 2008 08:38 AM PST

- BBC bandwidth dialogue: BBC future media and technology director Ashley Highfield has penned a manifesto urging industry collaboration in response to concerns over IPTV and the possibility ISPs could…

More Noise About Expected Beatles-iTunes Deal But Precious Little Info - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 09 Mar 2008 07:41 PM PST

A rather sketchy story from The Telegraph has started another Beatles-iTunes tizzy. It’s a different law of large numbers—the larger the dollar amount you can attach to a story with…

Updated: BBC Worldwide To Distribute Shows Through iTunes; In UK Only - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 18 Feb 2008 05:17 PM PST

Updated below: Not that big a surprise: BBC’s commercial arm will start distributing shows through Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes by next week, reports The Register, citing sources. The launch will…

‘DVD’ Jon’s DoubleTwist Gets Funding For iTunes Circumvention - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 18 Feb 2008 01:45 PM PST

SF-based DoubleTwist, the DRM-fighting startup from famed hacker “DVD” Jon Lech Johanson, has raised funding from Skype-backer Index Ventures and Norway’s NorthZone Ventures, reports FT. After an unfulfilled partnership with…

Mobile Content Bits: DRM-Free Orange; O2 Cuts iPhone Tariffs; Ofcom Looks At Mobile Data - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 30 Jan 2008 06:29 AM PST

Mobile-related headlines from our side of the pond, from our sister site mocoNews.net… - @ Midem: Orange Plans DRM-Free Music Rentals, Still Talking To Nokia: Orange has promised to drop…

European Patchwork A Possible Sticking Point For iTunes Movie Rentals - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 21 Jan 2008 01:11 AM PST

Us pesky Europeans… with our… separate countries and… distinct national jurisdictions! This NYT piece nibbles at the likely reason Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes Movie Rentals won’t hit these shores until…

Another Report on iPhone’s UK Sales: Slightly Short of Projections - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 18 Jan 2008 06:52 PM PST

We mentioned some anecdotal evidence of slow sales of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhones in UK early this month...now some more evidence in this story from FT: O2 said shortly before…

BBC Eyes iTunes, Apple TV Carriage; Hollywood Unlocks Door To A Mac iPlayer - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Jan 2008 09:59 AM PST

He asked for it, now he’s got it. BBC future media and technology director Ashley Highfield writes the new Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) TV “take-two”, “coupled with Apple’s move to a…

Apple Lowers UK iTunes Prices For EU Harmony; Demands Labels Follow Suit - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Jan 2008 02:38 AM PST

You can taste the reluctance in this move. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) just announced it will lower UK iTunes Store prices (£0.79 per track) by the summer to harmonise rates with…

Apple And Labels Close To Resolving European iTunes Country Pricing Case; No Fines - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 08 Jan 2008 08:56 PM PST

Updated below: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is close to coming to an agreement with European Commission on charges that its iTunes stores broke EU rules by setting prices country by country…

Sony Sells New BBC One Show On iTunes Under Auntie’s Nose - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 08 Jan 2008 08:44 AM PST

This might prove controversial—TV drama series Damages, which started airing on BBC One on Sunday, is being made available for download on iTunes Store… at £1.89 per episode. Despite iPlayer…

Sony BMG Joining Amazon’s US Music Store; Final Major To Try DRM-Free: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 04 Jan 2008 09:08 AM PST

Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG, the joint venture between Sony and German media group Bertelsmann, will join EMI, Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) in…

Mobile Content Bits: Nuts TV Turns On, Film 24 Goes Mobile, Orange’s 70,000 French iPhones - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 04 Jan 2008 06:06 AM PST

Latest European mobile content headlines from our sister site mocoNews.net… -- Turner Broadcasting System Launches Mobile TV Channels: Turner Broadcasting System and mobile video and TV technology firm Mobix have…

Bebo, GCap Pick iTunes Store For Legal Music Downloads - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 20 Dec 2007 02:10 AM PST

There’s still life in the old dog yet. Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) biz dev guys have been busy bees - both Bebo and UK commercial radio leader GCap have decided to…

An iPhone For Christmas? Too Expensive, Say Most Brits: Research - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 22 Nov 2007 08:26 AM PST

The iPhone - it’s sexy but pricey. Seventy-two percent of Brits won’t be buying the gadget - released in the UK on November 9 - according to a Gfk NOP…

T-Mobile Germany Offers IPhone Sans Contract For £713 - 2 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 21 Nov 2007 06:07 AM PST

T-Mobile has announced it will now start selling iPhones with out a contract, for 999 euros (£713), as opposed to 399 euros (£285) with a two-year contract. Any customer can…

Vodafone Sues Over iPhone Deal In Germany, Claims It Is Original Sin - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 19 Nov 2007 08:02 PM PST

Wow, talk about your sore losers… Right after Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) CEO Arun Sarin spat the dummy over not getting the iPhone contract saying “it’s a pretty poor experience” Vodafone…