Music pirates can be deterred by warnings from their internet service provider (ISP), suggests a survey.

Almost 75% of music pirates would stop if told to by their ISP, the survey of 1,500 UK consumers found.

The research looked at the digital habits of consumers and found that the abundance of online music services was convincing many to go straight.
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Users of the Nokia N96 are to be among the first with the ability to run the BBC’s iPlayer on their mobile phones.

From 1 October a purpose-built application will be available to download via the BBC website and will also be pre-loaded on some handsets.

The BBC iPlayer allows UK audiences to download and stream BBC TV and Radio programming from the past seven days.

A Nokia spokesman said the service would be 3G and wireless compatible and that Nokia would not charge to use it.

Erik Huggers, BBC Director of Future Media and Technology, said the deal was “critical” to reach out to as many people as possible.

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Nokia, the worldwide leader in mobility, on Saturday announced the launch of a range of mobile applications and content tailored for the Holy Month of Ramazan. Building on last year’s offering, the new solutions are for free and come preloaded in select Nokia devices or as downloadable applications that extend to a range of Nokia devices.

The online applications can be accessed and downloaded on the compatible Nokia devices from anywhere in the world under www.nokia.com/ramadan. “The overwhelming response and feedback that we received from last year’s offering allowed us to improve and expand this year’s application, making it a complete solution that gives Nokia users a single and easy access to many of the cherished experiences that Muslims like to be close to during the Holy Month,” said Imran Mahmood, Country General Manager, Nokia Pakistan.

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Nokia, global leader in mobility, announced the appointment of Syntax Communications as the Public Relations and Corporate Communications agency for the devices business in Pakistan. An announcement to this effect was made in a statement here on Friday.

It said that commenting on the appointment, Pakistan Afghanistan and Iran Nokia Corporation Communications Manager Adeel Hashmi said: “Nokia is all about connecting with people in the right context and at the right time.

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KARACHI: Wireless operators striving to capture operating cost savings in their networks are turning to Nokia Siemens Networks’ highly efficient and cost effective Flexi Base Station. In the first 14 months of Nokia Siemens Networks existence, 22 customers in 15 countries have opted to replace 18,000 base stations of other vendors, enough to create a comprehensive 3G network in a large European country.
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KARACHI: Nokia on Monday gave an overview and highlighted features of its latest devices likely to be launched later this year in the local markets. At a press briefing held at a local hotel, country manager Nokia Imran Khalid Mehmood and product manager Khuram Pradhan were present. The Nokia N78 - a latest model of N series was prominently highlighted.

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“This is the fastest and the best way [to] go forward,” said Nokia’s XVP yesterday. “What we are gaining here is the knowledge and the experience from the employee base in Symbian Ltd. For Nokia, this is a good investment.”

During yesterday’s press conference with soon-to-be members of the Symbian Foundation — the group being assembled by Nokia after its historic purchase of Symbian Ltd. is complete — the one aspect of the deal that reporters couldn’t quite wrap their heads around was this: Nokia wants to set Symbian free, so it’s buying it.

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LONDON - Avenue A|Razorfish has rated Google, Apple and YouTube as the top three digital brands in the world as it unveiled a new system to measure effectiveness.
Flickr, Netflix, Nike, eBay, Ikea, Coca-Cola and Mercedes rounded out Avenue’s top 10 digital brands.
The digital agency compiled its list via what it calls its Brand Gene Scoreboard, which the agency developed to assess the effectiveness of digital brands.
Avenue A|Razorfish researched seven attributes of successful digital brands and created the Gene Scoreboard because it said the “market lacks an effective way to measure how well a brand can take advantage of the interactive and social nature of digital technologies”.

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CEO Steve Jobs unveils the much-anticipated 3G iPhone; cuts the iPhone price to $200; takes aim at the BlackBerry.

NEW YORK (Fortune) — Apple announced on Monday a much faster iPhone that’s half the price of the current model.

The news is expected to address one of the biggest complaints about the hugely popular iPhone: That its network is too slow. CEO Steve Jobs said the new iPhone, which is based on 3G technology, is 36% faster than top rival Nokia’s N95 smartphone.

As Fortune.com first reported, the new 8-gigabyte iPhone will cost $199 and a 16-gigabyte version will cost $299. Jobs says the new iPhone will be available worldwide starting July 11. It will allow up to six hours of Web browsing and five hours of talk time.

Jobs announced the 3G iPhone, which had been rumored for months, at the company’s annual World Wide Developers conference in San Francisco.

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UPDATE: With headlines this week like “AMD jumps into the netbook game,” it sounded very much like Advanced Micro Devices was making a belated entry into the netbook segment. But this isn’t the case, according to AMD.

An AMD spokesperson said that this photo of a purported AMD netbook is, in fact, just a small notebook from Raon Digital–not an AMD reference design.

“It is a Raon Digital product and will start production at the end of July,” AMD spokesperson Phil Hughes said in response to an email query. “They have two models. One is TL-56 (Turion processor)-based and the other is Sempron 3700-based.” And Hughes said there are already a raft of netbook-like products in the market using AMD chips including the progenitor of this category of small, low-cost laptops, the One Laptop Per Child XO (OLPC) laptop (which uses the AMD Geode LX-700).

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Nokia has added two XpressMusic 5220 and XpressMusic 5320 handsets to its existing range of XpressMusic mobiles portfolio. The latest music mobiles are good looking and decently priced handsets targeted towards the music lovers who love to play music on the go, these have dedicated music keys, 3.5mm audio jack with dedicated music chip.

“Our XpressMusic range of devices continues to deliver the combination of superior music experiences and fresh, innovative designs,” said Jo Harlow, Vice President, LIVE category, Nokia. “Today’s additions to the XpressMusic range up the ante with new ways for consumers to access their media as well as interact and share content with friends and communities anytime, anywhere.”

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Net profit hit $1.95 billion in the quarter, up about 25% over the year-earlier period, while revenue was about $20 billion.

The North American market continued to bedevil Nokia as the world’s dominant handset supplier maintained its dominance in most of the world’s markets but slipped in the United States and Canada.

In announcing its first-quarter financial report Thursday, the Finland-based company said demand in emerging markets propped up its sales and earnings, but it indicated that its North American business is suffering.

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