If you’ve been away from your desk this afternoon – where have you been?! You’ve missed some huge headlines, both good and bad: let’s break them down for you right here in our teatime tech news roundup.
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Ah Nokia Comes With Music. You’ve had a troubled few years. Once billed as a true iTunes rival, your unlimited-DRM-laced-music-downloads never exactly exploded here. Then you were set to get a name change. Now though, Nokia really is pulling the plug in the UK, we’ve confirmed.
Morning all! We’re just about to get the ball rolling on lots more gadget news, but before we do, take a few seconds to catch up with everything you might have missed overnight. It’s all crammed into one post for you right here in your techie breakie!
Nokia Comes With Music is off to the great gig in the sky. Like Hendrix, Lennon and the drummer from Spinal Tap, however, true music legends never really die – they just get rebranded.
The doors slamming shut on its flagship Regent Street store have rounded off a tough year for Nokia. The Finnish phone maker has seen its flagship N97 gazumped by a raft of Android-packing stunners, not to mention Comes With Music falling well short of expectations in the face of Spotify’s continued success. So what issues does Nokia face with 2010 round the corner? And how can it solve them and stay top dog?
Nokia Comes With Music has just 107,000 users worldwide. That’s according to stats sent out direct from Espoo to the world’s biggest record labels over the summer. And with Sky Songs and Spotify dominating, the future’s not looking rosy for Nokia’s all-you-can-eat music service.
Nokia’s going back on its word for select Comes With Music subscribers. For once though, that’s a good thing: it’s extending the pass to the year-long, all you can eat tune buffet for another three months for early adopters!
What a morning. We’ve spied some seriously swish gadgets so far today, so if you’ve not had a chance to scope them yet, grab them all in one place and chow down. Read on for the lunchtime lowdown.
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