MUMBAI: Orpheus Media Research (OMR), an advanced music research and development company that automates the search, analysis, and discovery of music, announced today the results of its consumer survey, which revealed that consumers are interested in learning about new music and are actively using available tools, but that finding new music and artists can be hard to do.
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MUMBAI: MUMBAI: The Supreme Court of the United States denied cert in F.B.T. Productions, LLC, et al v. Aftermath Records, et al. In doing so, the Supreme Court let stand the Ninth Circuit's September 3, 2010 unanimous decision that addressed royalties under a traditional music recording agreement for new methods of music distribution, such as iTunes and cellular phone ring tones.
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MUMBAI: Shazam, the world's leading mobile discovery company, today announced a major update to its Shazam App for iPhone, iPod touch and Android which brings with it an exciting new feature called Shazam Friends.... Shazam Friends is an innovative way for Shazamers to discover and share new music with their friends on Facebook. The new feature provides a real-time feed of songs that friends have tagged, creating a continuously updating list giving every Shazamer a new and powerful dimension for music discovery.
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MUMBAI: NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it will begin selling the Xperia arc SO-01C smartphone through all DOCOMO sales channels nationwide in Japan on March 24.
The Xperia arc SO-01C is powered by Android 2.3, the latest version of this operating system. A maximum downlink of 14 Mbps is possible in this first handset to be compatible with DOCOMO's new extra-high-speed downlink service, which is scheduled to launch in HSDPA service areas around June.
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