Microsoft says it's expanding Zune, its digital entertainment service, into more than 20 countries – including the UK. Zune's music and video services will be available on Windows-based PCs, on Windows Phone 7 handsets and on the Xbox gaming console later this year.
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Tonight's big Apple announcement was, as expected, focussed on the music rather than the mobile side of the business.
The company has introduced a new iPod touch music player with many of the features that were first introduced on the iPhone 4, including a 'Retina Display', Apple's A4 chip, FaceTime video calling over WiFi (with front-facing camera and microphone), 3-axis gyroscope and HD video recording.
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Research and analysis business eMarketer predicts that revenue from mobile content in the USA will rise from less than $1.15 billion last year to more than $3.53 billion in 2014. That's a compound annual growth rate of nearly 20% during the five-year period.
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Bambuser, which enables users to stream live video from their mobile phones to the web, has now launched a public beta for watching live and on-demand video on mobile phones.
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This year the number of mobile video viewers in the USA will jump by almost 30% to 23.9 million people, according to a report from eMarketer.com. That's 9.7% of all mobile phone owners and 7.7% of the total population. By 2013, those figures will double to 15% of the population (and 18.5% of mobile owners).
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