Free music-streaming services like We7 and Spotify have proliferated in Europe: the latter claims 10m users.
Efforts to introduce free music-streaming services to Germany have been held up by the country's performing-rights society.
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With up to six months of ad-free web streaming available upon sign-up, music lovers in these markets can organically discover a great number of artists and bands.
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The Nokia Lumia 822 also comes with Nokia Music - a completely ad-free music streaming application, requiring no registration, no log-in or subscription.
The service will include free on-demand streaming music of a catalog of 30 million songs on all Win 8 and Win RT devices.
Rather, as far as product went, Nokia would differentiate with its own apps, many of which were tied to services, such as Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive, Nokia Transit, Nokia Music (which provides ad-free streaming radio) and the augmented reality app City Lens.
It is also a big win for Gaikai co-founder David Perry, who has repeatedly argued that streaming, free-to-play entertainment is the future of the game industry.
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With a unique design, enhanced camera, world class maps with turn-by-turn navigation and free unlimited music streaming, the Nokia Lumia 822 provides Verizon Wireless customers with high-end smartphone features on America's largest 4G LTE network.
Some believe that consumers will be greeted with a free one-year subscription to streaming service Amazon Prime.
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Making it easy to discover and enjoy new music, Nokia Music provides free streaming of ad-free tracks without registration or subscription and the ability to download playlists for listening offline.
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There's no indication that free two-day shipping or streaming video will be coming to Russia anytime soon, but the ereader market seems as good a place as any to start a quest for dominance.
These docs also affirm what we'd heard about integrated Beats Audio technology and Tap to Share, with the second-gen Touchstone to also handle wireless picture sharing, cordless audio streaming and tether-free video beaming (just to name a few).
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Nokia Music introduces MixRadio, a free, global, mobile music-streaming application that delivers 100s of channels of locally-relevant music.
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This partnership comes one month after Deezer launched the first truly global free (ad-supported) music streaming service to a potential audience of at least 600 million people across more than 150 countries.
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On both sides of the Atlantic, the ubiquity of fast internet connection that can support HD streaming, along with antiquated rules around free-to-air offerings, is creating a bit of a wild west feel.
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In addition, Rdio has announced that the extended free web offer is now available to Brazil - currently the streaming service's third biggest market and its fastest growing territory in terms new users.
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The Lumia 820 offers the same exclusive content as the Lumia 920, including Nokia Drive, a turn-by-turn voice navigation solution, Nokia Music, a free music streaming service and Nokia City Lens, an augmented reality application that uses the phone's camera viewfinder to provide information about points of interests in the surrounding area.
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In addition to all the latest breaking movie, music, TV and celebrity news, Nokia subscribers receive access to over 55, 000 SHOUTcast radio stations and free music album streaming via AOL Music, along with Moviefone's on-device movie search and ticketing features.
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Providing high-quality video streaming, the Crackle App offers users a unique, free experience that includes unlimited viewing of the movies, TV series and Crackle original programming available on Crackle.com.
"Equipped with the Intel Atom CE5315 that accelerates transcoding and supports HDMI interface, the Synology DiskStation provides users with hassle-free access to their data anywhere, and from any device, making multimedia streaming even more effortless, " said Vic Hsu, chief executive officer of Synology Inc.
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Take a break from the usual streaming (Hulu, Amazon, Netflix, YouTube) and enjoy some free on-demand video and content about dance, opera, music, art and more on the The Space, a site from the Arts Council England and the BBC.
MyLink adds stereo audio streaming and wireless control of smart phones, building on the voice-activated Bluetooth hands-free calling capability already offered in most Chevy vehicles.
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