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Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Mon 17 Sep 2007 03:21 AM PST
From our sister site MocoNews (see full post), a glut of coverage as the iPhone heads to these shores… -- UK iPhone: O2 (TEF.MC) has tied up a UK iPhone…
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Thu 13 Sep 2007 02:45 AM PST
From our sister site MocoNews: Just when you thought newsflow was slowing down on Apple’s iPhone partners in Europe, out comes more: -- Peter Erskine, the CEO of O2, yesterday…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 06 Sep 2007 10:22 AM PST
Representatives of Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL), Universal Music, SonyBMG and EMI (LON:EMI) will on September 19 and 20 attempt to convince the European Commission that iTunes Store has not broken continental competition…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 05 Sep 2007 04:36 PM PST
A rash of announcements from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Wednesday, including some repositioning for the iPhone as the company heads toward the holidays and a European launch.The price of the 8GB…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 29 Aug 2007 02:21 AM PST
Nearly two years after Apple added paid TV show downloads to U.S. iTunes Store, it has now launched the feature for U.K. customers. And what do we get? American imports…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 21 Aug 2007 12:17 PM PST
More reports on iPhone’s European arrival and this one from FT sounds more definitive: it has signed with T-Mobile in Germany, Orange in France and O2 in the UK, and…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 17 Aug 2007 09:18 AM PST
The latest carrier rumored to be winning a distribution deal for Apple’s iPhone is Orange (at last). MacScoop reports unnamed sources as saying the France Telecom subsidiary is either near…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 27 Jul 2007 12:44 AM PST
Fortune Magazine (via CNN Money) has a rumors-are-rife story that Nokia (NYSE:NOK) is planning an online music service to rival iTunes. While there’s no confirmation on this from the company,…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 19 Jul 2007 02:47 AM PST
T-Mobile Germany put up a page on the iPhone, and although they took it down quickly there’s still screencap evidence… Of course, this is not a confirmation that T-Mobile will…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 04 Jul 2007 11:31 PM PST
Everyone and their mother-in-law is reporting that European operator O2, owned by Spanish telecom giant Telefonica, is close to clinching the deal to launch Apple’s iPhone in UK...this comes after…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 27 Jun 2007 03:08 PM PST
Vodafone is in talks with Apple to launch iPhone in Europe, and talks partly hinge on volume guarantees and subsidies, reports Reuters, quoting from a Dutch magazine. Apple demanded a…
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Thu 14 Jun 2007 11:46 AM PST
Good news for Apple and handset vendors - including LG and HTC - that have announced their own touch screen devices. European mobile phone users are increasingly receptive to these…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 12 Jun 2007 03:20 PM PST
In a social network first for Apple, as of Wednesday, it should get easier for Bebo users in the UK and Ireland to buy music by any artist who has…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 05 Jun 2007 10:14 PM PST
Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC has launched a touch-screen phone (HTC Touch) which uses an Microsoft OS and, naturally, is being reported in relation to the soon-to-be-released iPhone. It’s in the…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 01 Jun 2007 06:35 AM PST
Apple may have dropped digital rights management restrictions from its new iTunes Plus range, but some consumers are asking questions about its retention of another DRM - digital rights metadata.…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 25 May 2007 09:26 AM PST
Earlier this week, observers noted that, while Apple is usually first to market with new-release additions to the iTunes Store, it has been beaten to the punch on the first…
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Mon 21 May 2007 06:54 AM PST
Interest in iPhone is high, but will that translate into stellar sales when the device hits the market? Not likely, according to El Reg. Quoting the U.K.’s largest iPhone survey…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 15 May 2007 04:44 PM PST
Apple’s much anticipated iPhone, weeks away from launch in U.S. through AT&T, may launch in Europe through an exclusive deal with T-Mobile, reports MarketingWeek. Europe’s biggest mobile phone networks, including…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 25 Apr 2007 07:43 AM PST
Carphone Warehouse says it has abandoned hope of following Cingular/AT&T in securing an exclusive partnership to retail Apple’s iPhone, according to the Times of London. Europe’s largest mobile phone retailer…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 05 Apr 2007 03:38 PM PST
The role of Steve Jobs and iTunes in EMI’s announcement Monday that it would offer DRM-free versions of its digital library may have given people the wrong impression about what…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 02 Apr 2007 05:05 PM PST
Nevermind the EMI-Apple announcement, the shine may come of soon: Apple faces a fine of more than $600 million after the European Commission issued a formal objection to the higher…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 02 Apr 2007 05:14 AM PST
It’s official - EMI Music just became the first major record label to drop digital rights management on its digital downloads - but many consumers must pay more. EMI is…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 26 Mar 2007 01:03 AM PST
French start page Webwag has acquired compatriot mobile widget maker Mobease. Formed by former Google France exec Franck Poisson, Webwag already lets users create custom widgets from any website’s content…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 21 Mar 2007 03:17 PM PST
The Guardian has a story covering the two rumors-de-jour, the iPhone and Google phone. While Google is downplaying any plans to launch its own handset this article claims the company…
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Mon 12 Mar 2007 09:49 AM PST
Reuters reports EU consumer chief Meglena Kuneva has criticized Apple’s practice of bundling of its iPod music players and its iTunes online music store. Reuters, which picked up the story…
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