London-based mobile music recognition service Shazam has raised $32 million in new funding. The money will be used to help the company grow and develop its mobile applications.
Shazam is approaching 150 million users worldwide and is on course to achieve 250 million users within two years.
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Sony's 'Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity' service is being made available for a number of Sony Ericsson Xperia smartphones from today.
The Android client is available for download in the USA, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
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Music discovery service Shazam has announced its first corporate acquisition.
Technology from California-based Tunezee is being added to the Shazam Encore app, enabling users to view song lyrics synchronised in real-time with the music they are listening to. It's currently available for more than 25,000 songs.
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Dolby Laboratories has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Research In Motion, claiming that RIM is using Dolby's digital audio compression technology in some of its BlackBerry smartphones and its PlayBook tablets without having obtained licences.
The legal action has been filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California and the District Court of Mannheim in Germany.
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As promised, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has opened the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference with a series of announcements.
The next version of the iPhone and iPad operating system - iOS 5 - will have more than 200 new features when it's released this autumn.
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