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...Already, cracks are surfacing in operator relations. Earlier this week, a memo from pan-European carrier Orange that was leaked to the press complained that the combination of the Nokia link and Orange's existing music service on the same phone could confuse customers. Orange does not deny the contents of the memo, but declined to elaborate on it, except to say in a carefully worded statement that it is testing the N81 and has not yet committed...
...digital music business is one of the prime battlefields right now, with new vendors entering all the time. In the week alone leading up to Nokia's announcement, giant retailer Wal-Mart strengthened its downloading service, and MTV, Real Networks and Verizon Wireless joined music forces. They're all chasing a digital download business that the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry says grew to $2.1 billion in 2006, or 11% of all recorded music sales, as more artists embrace it. "Any band that's resistant to it is crazy," says Adam Levine, lead singer of Grammy-winning L.A. group...
...Another reason why the time is right for Nokia: among the people who do put music on their phone, most of them "sideload" it by transferring tunes over from a PC. According to research firm M:Metrics, 85% of the people who listened to music on their phones in Europe's big 5 countries and the U.S. from February to April did not get the songs through cellular downloads. Nokia's service supports both cellular and PC Internet downloads...
...Sony Ericsson would follow Nokia's tactic of slowly building up to a full-on Web services push. In the last couple of years, Nokia has taken many small steps, tying phones into Yahoo, Flickr photo sharing and content from Turner Broadcasting, among others. Last fall, it launched a music Web site called Music Recommenders fronted by David Bowie and meant primarily as a music referral site. This summer it acquired media sharing site Twango and struck a deal with Microsoft to put Windows Live on Nokia phones, allowing users to send and receive instant messages and emails...
...Many of those, like the Nokia Music Store, will become part of the umbrella Ovi Website that will mark the company's formal Internet coming out when it launches later this year. Ovi - the Finnish word for "door" - could even offer TV programs at some point. Vanjoki, who is in charge of marketing Ovi, says it will includes millions of songs from all 4 major record labels as well as from regional bands. Nokia has set a European price of 1 Euro for a tune, and of 10 Euros for a CD. It has not finalized U.K. pricing, but when...