Nokia spurns Apple in bid for share of mobile music market

Nokia and Loudeye are to work on a global music service for mobile networks and phones. Nokia has reached an agreement with the company that bought the OD2 music service to create a mobile platform for the delivery of digital music to phones. Motorola recently cut a deal with Apple to use its iTunes software on phones that will be available next year, but instead Nokia is choosing the company that owns OD2, whose technology powers the music services of a number of European ISPs and portals, including Wanadoo and MSN. ...more

Apple Corps to appeal ruling

Apple Corps has announced that it will appeal yesterday's ruling that Apple Computer's use of the apple logo in connection with its iTunes Music Store does not violate a 1991 trademark agreement between the two companies. 'With great respect to the trial judge, we consider he has reached the wrong conclusion,' Neil Aspinall, Apple Corps' manager, said in a statement. 'We felt that during the course of the trial we clearly demonstrated just how extensively Apple Computer had broken the agreement. ...more

Sun adds open source database to Solaris 10

Sun has announced a number of new additions to the Solaris 10 platform and OpenSolaris project, including first-time support for an open source database. The company said yesterday that it will distribute and support the open source PostgresSQL database - a decisive move for the company that has such strong ties to Oracle. Execs said that the move was a response to customer demand and places Solaris 10 as a key platform for hosting high-performance, mission-critical database solutions. ...more

Windows XP SP2 not for pirates after all

It was reported yesterday that Microsoft would allow Windows XP Service Pack 2 to be installed on pirated copies of XP. The revelations were made by Microsoft's Group Product Manager Barry Goffe in an interview given to the Singapore-based Computer Times. The reason is not that Microsoft has decided to look more kindly on the pirates. ...more

Danish court blocks access to Allofmp3.com

A Danish court has ordered telecoms company Tele 2 to block Internet access to the controversial Russian music downloads site Allofmp3.com. The court unconditionally backed a complaint by the local branch of the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI) Denmark, which represents the major record companies and has been campaigning vigorously for the site to be shut down. ...more