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Access to 16 playlists from Universal Music’s catalogue

Orange has unveiled “Monkey”, describing it as the first pay as you go package for the UK market that offers free music to customers when they top up their mobile.

Slightly convoluted – and with limited content – the scheme, that will arguably not be so attractive if the likes of Spotify get round to releasing a mobile app, sees Orange Monkey customers getting free access to streamed playlist-based music from the Universal Music label if they top up their phone a minimum of £10 per month.

Dialing 247 on handsets gets customers access to eight pre-set genre-based playlists via the phone call so no media player required, in addition, customers can set up eight of their own playlists via the online music player that can then be shared.

Aimed at the 16 to 14 “youth” market, Monkey also offers free texts, the ability for playlists to be shared on social networks and access to competitions and artist interviews.

Channel 4’s 4Music is getting involved with promoting the new package with the 4Music team also due to be the “editorial voice” of the official Monkey website and setting the playlist content.

There will be more info at www.orange.co.uk/monkey from 30 July.

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Orange launches "Monkey" package with "free music" originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:46:16 +0100

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Yes, the 1979 Atari title

Reuters is reporting that movie producer Universal has just acquired the movie rights to 1979’s arcade smash hit “Asteroids”, following a four-studio bidding war.

Matthew Lopez, the chap behind “Race to Witch Mountain”, will be writing the script. It’s billed as a completely new story – with a plot built entirely from scratch. Given that the original game has no real plot, that’s probably wise.

Universal has some experience of that, Reuters says, as it’s currently in the middle of translating Hasbro’s “Battleships” and “Candyland” board games into an onscreen experience.

Given how awful the Mario, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and Tomb Raider films turned out, we’re not holding our breath on this one.

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Universal buys film rights to "Asteroids" originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:01:10 +0100

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More video-on-demand

Virgin Media has announced it is extending its video-on-demand offerings with the launch of PictureBox, in association with Universal Pictures.

From July, the PictureBox service will be available for £5 per month and provide a selection of recent and library feature films.

Subscribers will be able to view films whenever they like from a selection of 28 films at any given time, with seven new titles being added to the line-up each Friday.

The companies say that most of the PictureBox films will be available in HD and many will not yet have been seen on free-to-air television in the UK.

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Virgin Media to offer Universal Pictures’ "PictureBox" originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:18:47 +0100

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