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Nokia's Comes With Music gets handsets, release date.

Innovative 'Media Bar' and 'Contacts Bar' add human touch to music experience

Nokia Remix, London, United Kingdom and Singapore - Nokia turned up the volume on its music offering today by unveiling the new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, a mobile device for music that brings innovative new features to the mass market. Delivering on Nokia's vision to provide the best total music experience possible, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be among the first devices to support Comes With Music, Nokia's groundbreaking service which offers one year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalogue.



When it comes to music phones, people all over the world want a device that is a great music experience - with more memory, loud and powerful speakers, easy synchronization - and must still work well as a mobile phone with direct access to important contacts and content. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers on all counts and allows consumers to access and share content.

"With the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, we set out to connect people through the one thing we all feel a universal connection to - music," said Jo Harlow, Vice President, Nokia. "The way in which people enjoy music is different around the world. With that in mind, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic gives people the freedom to experience music they love in the way they prefer."

Media Bar, Contacts Bar - putting people first
Taking advantage of touch screen technology, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic introduces the 'Media Bar', a handy drop down menu that provides direct access to music and entertainment, including favourite tracks, videos and photos. The Media Bar also offers a direct link to the web and to online sharing. Because the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic supports Flash content, individuals can surf the entire web, not just pieces of it. In addition, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic offers all the music essentials, including a graphic equalizer, 8GB memory for up to 6000 tracks and support for all main digital music formats, and a 3.5mm jack. Built-in surround sound stereo speakers offer the industry's most powerful sound.

Ensuring a seamless music experience, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic also provides easy access to browse and purchase tracks from the Nokia Music Store, where applicable, while the newly updated Nokia Music PC software allows for easy drag-and-drop transfer of songs and management of any music collection.

The innovative 'Contacts Bar' lets consumers highlight four favorite contacts on their home-screen and, through a single touch, track a digital history of recent text messages, emails, phone logs, photos and blog updates.

"As Nokia's first mass-market device with a touch screen, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic turns a 'user interface' into a 'human interface' by truly putting people first. For example, we've introduced the Nokia Contacts Bar, which is like a digital RSS feed on your life," said Harlow. "By adding the benefits of touch screen technology to S60, the world's leading smartphone interface, Nokia is taking the familiar and giving it a human touch. We have used touch technology where it really adds value such as the Contacts Bar, Media Bar and clever shortcuts from the homescreen to menu items such as calendar, profiles and clock. "

For the best screen resolution available on a mobile phone, the 3.2" widescreen display brings photos, video clips and web content to life in vibrant color and true clarity. With a 16 by 9 aspect ratio and 30 frames-per-second playback and recording, the device is ideal for VGA quality video recording and playback.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic also features a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and, with a single touch, images or videos can be shared via a favorite online community, such as Share on Ovi, Flickr, or Facebook. Music playlist song titles can also be shared through Bluetooth, MMS or online sharing.

Music for the masses
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic supports 60 languages worldwide, which covers nearly 90 percent of the world's population. As people around the world use their phones in different ways, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic offers a variety of input methods including a virtual alphanumeric keypad, a virtual computer-style QWERTY keyboard, a pen stylus -- and for true music enthusiasts, a plectrum -- are all available.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be available worldwide beginning in the fourth quarter of 2008 for an estimated retail price of 279 EUR before taxes and subsidies. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic featuring Comes With Music will be available early next year. Pricing details to follow.

Enhancing the experience, Nokia today unveiled four new music accessories including a new Bluetooth headset and three new stereo headsets.

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After much banging of the drum over the last year, Nokia has finally announced a solid release date for Comes With Music, as well as the first compatible handsets. The unlimited music download service is set to arrive on a small handful of models, both old and new, in the UK starting October 16, with the US and other countries slated to rock out with Nokia sometime in early 2009.

Nokia announced Comes With Music last year as a move to both crank up handset sales and take another try at the mobile media realm where it hasn't been very successful in the past. Realizing that subscription music services haven't done well on desktop computers—largely due to the "lose it all if you cancel membership" catch—Nokia set out to sign on all the major record labels and innovate with a subscription model tied to mobile phones.
Comes With Music offers a one-year, all-you-can-eat subscription to a music store filled with over 5 million tracks from all four major labels, as well as indies via publishers like The Beggars Group and The Orchard, with the purchase of a compatible Nokia handset. Nokia spent part of the past year finishing up negotiations with Sony BMG and EMI, but all four of the majors are now on board for the service's debut later this month.

Tracks can be downloaded via the handset or a Windows desktop client, and though the songs are unfortunately wrapped in DRM, they will continue to work after the one-year subscription plan runs out. In the past we've been told that users can renew their subscription by purchasing a new Comes With Music handset, but Nokia didn't get back to us on our question as to whether a simple renewal fee will do the same trick. There is also no word on whether a rumored "relatively high" limit for monthly downloads is in effect as well.
For the debut of Comes With Music in the UK, Nokia will have ready a special Comes With Music edition of its Nokia 5310 XpressMusic candy bar handset. This model will sell for about $180, including a coupon in its box for activating the Comes With Music service. Other Comes With Music handsets, such as the 5800 XpressMusic iPhone competitor and an 8GBversion of the N95, will follow later in the fall and early next year.

Whether Comes With Music, and similar offerings from competitors, bring the house down is something that we'll be watching closely. Other handset manufacturers and carriers ranging from Sony Ericsson, OmniFone, and Orange, are unveiling similar plans, all with varying approaches to the same kind of service. Comes With Music and its competitors may very well be able to duplicate some of the iTunes Store's success by offering songs with less abrasive DRM through an attractively priced, unlimited subscription model.

Skype Messaging Surveillance found in China

If you're an authoritarian government that closely monitors your citizens' online communications, here's a tip from Ars Technica: tell your minions not to store the logs on publicly-accessible servers. This is exactly what China has done with information pulled from the TOM-Skype network, leading a handful of researchers to discover that China is logging text messages and analyze the country's behavior with regards to the online monitoring and censorship of citizens. In a joint report between ONI Asia and the Information Welfare Monitor, author Nart Villeneuve details evidence that China not only monitors and logs text chat, but also targets specific users for further monitoring.
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The report published yesterday, titled "BREACHING TRUST: An analysis of surveillance and security practices on China's TOM-Skype platform"A group of computer security researchers and human-rights activists based in Canada at the University of Toronto recently found a gigantic surveillance system in China that is being utilized to monitor and archive Internet text conversations that contain politically charged wording.
The system is capable of tracking text messages that are sent by TOM-Skype customers. TOM-Skype is a joint venture between eBay and a Chinese wireless provider.
This discovery puts the heat on the Chinese government’s capabilities when it comes to monitoring and filtering on the internet. This isn’t the first time this topic has sparked controversy- a prime example is during the Beijing Olympics. Chinese researchers have estimated that there are over 30,000 individuals responsible for policing the internet and monitoring online traffic, websites and blogs for political and other offending content in what is called the Golden Shield Project, or also the Great Firewall of China.
The Canadian activists of Citizen Lab stumbled upon the surveillance operation last month. The stated that a cluster of eight message-logging computers in China held over a million censored messages. They examined the text messages and were able to reconstruct a list of words that were restricted.
Researchers have concluded that the word list mainly includes words that are related to the religious group Falun Gong, Taiwan independence, and also the Chinese Communist Party. Among the words are milk powder, earthquake, and democracy. Currently Chinese officials are getting flack for the way they handled earthquake relief and also chemicals that have tainted milk powder).
The list also works as a filter for the restriction of text message conversations. The encrypted list of words within the TOM-Skype software block the transmission of these words and then a copy of the message is forwarded to a server. The Chinese servers are capable of retaining personal information about the individual who sent the messages. Chat conversations between Tom-Skype users and Skype users from outside of China are also recorded. At this point the system has only recorded text messages and Skype caller identification but has not recorded any of the Skype voice content.
Within the last two months the servers were able to archive over 166,000 censored messages from over 44,000 users, states a report that was published on the Information Warfare Monitor website at the University of Toronto.
Researchers were able to download, and then analyze copies of all of the surveillance data because the Chinese computers were not configured properly, thus leaving them accessible by third parties. The researchers had no idea who was responsible for the operation of the surveillance system, but believed that it was the Chinese wireless firm, and felt that there was a strong chance they were working in cooperation with Chinese police.
Independent executives from the instant message industry feel that this discovery is scary, and that it is also an indication as to where the future of computers and communications tracking technologies is headed.
Pat Peterson, Vice President for technology at Cisco’s Ironport group that is responsible for providing messaging security systems told the NY Times “I can see an arms race going on”, “China is one of the more wired places of the world and they are fighting a war with their populace”.
The Chinese government does not stand by themselves in efforts to maintain strict internet surveillance. In 2005 the New York Times reported that the National Security Agency was also monitoring huge volumes of both telephone and internet communications that were coming into the United States. This was all part of a surveillance program that was designed to prevent and monitor for terrorist activity, which was approved by President Bush following the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The Canadian researches pointed out that their discovery contradicts a public statement that was issued by Skype executives in 2006 when they were accused of filtering content in Skype conversations. The company swore that all conversations were not only private but also protected.
In the April 2006 official Skype blog post, the company said TOM does operate a text filter on the client side that filters words from text chats. This filter blocks the word and according to Skype is done before it is encrypted for transmission. Skype added that, “Calls, chats and all other forms of communication on Skype continue to be encrypted and secure.”
On Wednesday the Citizen Lab researchers issued a report that detailed the data that was found on the servers. Ronald J. Deibert, associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto told the New York Times “We were able to download millions of messages that identify users,” and “This is the worst nightmares of the conspiracy theorists around surveillance coming true. It’s ‘X-Files’ without the aliens.”
The recent discovery shows users just how public their information is when texting, using the internet, and any other mass communication method.

Nintendo DS updates

The newest addition to the Nintendo DS family, DSi, has clearer sound quality and a surprisingly sharp image quality when in photo mode. That and the fact that users can have much more fun with software on the DSi may be enough reason for Nintendo to entice consumers to snap up its latest handheld game console.
At Nintendo's launch in Tokyo on Thursday I had a chance to take the new gaming device for a spin.
Compared to the current DS Lite, the DSi is slightly thinner and only a bit lighter. The screen has been widened from 3 inches to 3.25 inches, which didn't seem like much, and the image quality for games didn't look that different on DSi compared to DS Lite.
So it's all the more surprising the DSi camera had sharp images. Not only did the DSi camera feel like an okay camera but I had fun playing with it.
For example, it has a "niteru-do" function, where you can take a photo of two people side-by-side and software will rate how much the two look like each other.
I tried this function out with a Nintendo representative, who was explaining the console to me. She looked much younger and did not look at all like me, but the DSi rated us as "itoko-kyu" (translated in English as "the resemblance level of cousins"). Now, I would still go with DNA tests instead of a DSi camera to find out if someone was related to me, but the point here was that the niteru-do function was fun to play with.
The DSi camera also lets you digitally manipulate the image of someone's face using the touch pen. It also lets you combine or mold different faces together.
Sound on the DSi seemed to have crisp audio quality worthy of an audio player but, here again, there's more to it. You can manipulate audio with the DSi in ways your usual audio player wouldn't let you. You can change the pitch and speed of a sound, put effects such as "electrical fan" on a person's voice or play a sound backwards if that's what you want to do. It might sound silly but, once again, it's fun.
There are some drawbacks to the DSi over the DS Lite.
At ¥18,900 (US$179) it's a bit more expensive than the ¥16,800 DS Lite but that difference shouldn't cause too many people to change their purchasing plans.
Also, to make the handheld console thin, Nintendo took away the slot for Game Boy Advance games. No longer can GBA games be played on DS and DS games that use the GBA slot can't be used on DSi but a new range of DSi-only games are likely to appear so this could make up for the difference.
All in all, if you're considering to buy a DS Lite, the camera and audio functions in DSi make it a strong contender for your cash and could make you reconsider your plans.

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