Nokia Comes with Music, Nokia's unlimited music service, is being rebranded as Ovi Music Unlimited, according to a report on allaboutsymbian.com. The two-year-old service, which was said to only have 107,000 users worldwide last summer, is available via certain Nokia handsets and desktop computers.
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ABI Research says it expects expects mobile application downloads from iOS (the Apple operating system) and Android to account for 78% of all app downloads in 2010. Just over half of all apps – 52% – will be for iOS.
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Nokia's Ovi Mail free email service now has 10 million activated accounts. The company admits that many people already have multiple email accounts but points out that Ovi Mail is particularly useful in parts of the world where mobile phones are more popular than PCs. It says 7 of the top 10 countries activating Ovi Mail accounts are in emerging markets, including Indonesia, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, China, Kenya and Nigeria.
Later this year Ovi Mail is expected to be co-branded as "powered by Yahoo!".
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This week we talk to a couple of telecoms recruiters about the current state of the jobs market. And there's also our regular look at mobile industry news from the last seven days... from Nokia's free maps and Truphone's MVNO to Versace's new handset.
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