Phones4U to offer b@TV’s streamed music

Rating: Will it put a big strain on mobile broadband?

In what is believed to be its first commercial agreement, b@T, has signed an agreement to provide its streamed content services for the Nokia X6. The deal will be exclusive to Phones4u customers. Interestingly, independent UK handset retailer, Phones4U, hasn’t said which networks it will offer [...]

MWC: Windows Phone 7 games orientated

Rating: Will offer tight integration with Bing, though

It appears that the very latest incarnation of Microsoft’s mobile OS, Windows Phone 7, is very heavily biased towards the gaming/entertainment sector. However, every Windows Phone 7 Series phone will come with a dedicated button for Bing to provide one-click access to search from anywhere on the phone.

Further adventures of TV and mobile devices: now we’ve got a GRAMMY social networking app

Further adventures of TV and mobile devices: now we’ve got a GRAMMY social networking app
Not content to simply have the GRAMMY music awards on the weekend, CBS has an entire week of programming. GRAMMY week is seven days worth of events leading up the music awards - and at the end you get to watch the largest music promotional event in the US on television. But app developer Diversion Media wants more than that, and is releasing the first official GRAMMY iPhone application.

A few handsets are upgradeable to Windows Phone

Rating: And the first one off the stocks is the Samsung Jack
A little gem that popped into our email letterbox on Xmas eve. The news comes that some existing Windows Mobile handsets can be updated to Windows Phone (6.5). The first such update is for the Samsung Jack (SGH-i637) but others will follow.
The advantage [...]

Fancy being a DJ? Try new iPhone app Soundtrckr

You find that most people who listen to music also love to share their music. A new iPhone app called Soundtrcker is combining playlists, location and social networking to allow users to “broadcast” radio stations to one another.

Once again, rumours surface about T-Mobile and Sprint merger

Financial services giant (and massive bailout recipient) Citigroup has breathed new life into a recurring rumour. The company has raised its share price rating for Sprint Nextel, and is claiming that there is a good possibility Sprint and German owned T-Mobile will merge in the next 12 months.

Nokia is the new IBM

Rating: It’s all about software and services
GoMo News snuck along to Nokia UK’s Xmas celebration at the Music Room in London’s Mayfair and had a very interesting chin-wag with some of Nokia’s top executives. As Dylan said, “The times they are a-changin’.”
The world’s leading vendor of mobile phones has been gradually mutating over the past [...]

Shazam offers RED to battle AIDS

Rating: Help fight AIDS with an iPhone download
It’s nice to see that mobile music discovery specialist, Shazam, has joined forces with RED to support World AIDS Day (1st December). It has produced a special edition of Shazam for the iPhone called Shazam Red.
When customers purchase Shazam Red from the App Store, 20 per cent [...]

Opera introduces an easy-stream solution

Rating: V 10.10 serves content from your PC to your mobile
Obviously the easiest way to move content from a PC or existing handset to a new mobile phone would be side-loading it from a memory card. But in many cases such a procedure is complex, time-consuming and fraught with problems. Problem solved with Opera version [...]

New iPhone app helps 50 Cent grab even more advertising cash

This one is kind of special. Musicians releasing branded iPhone apps is nothing new - they were some of the earliest applications available. But this new “remix” application from 50 Cent, co-branded with a brand of mineral water, really takes the cake.

Nokia moves the Ovi brand to PC client

Rating: Nokia Music (for PC) is rebranded Nokia Ovi Player
An interesting move by Nokia. It has taken advantage of an update to its existing PC client software, Nokia Music, to move the ‘Ovi’ brand onto the desktop. Personally, GoMo News views this as an attempt to combat the influence of iTunes – even in the [...]

Mobile application round-up: Android, iPhone, Blackberry and more

There has been a lot of interesting moves in the mobile application market this last day, so we’ve rounded up the best of the stories here on GoMo News. Hugely popular iPhone music application Shazam has released a new “Encore” app. Loopt, the free location-based mobile social network for Blackberry, has released a big update. Long distance voice carrier iBasis has released it’s own international calling app, Pingo EZ Dial. And hot GPS search startup Geodelic is announcing a major update to it’s Android application.

Napster, mobile music and the future of mobile commerce

Wait, what - the Napster? Yes, they are still around. And they are making serious moves in mobile commerce and content. At the Mobile Commerce World event in San Francisco today, Brad Duea, President of Napster spoke at length about music and commerce in mobile. He was interviewed by Tom Wills, Senior Analyst from the Security, Fraud & Compliance division of Javelin Strategy. It’s a great interview - Brad addresses problems with operators, billing, licensing and labels. He also spoke about the differences between Napster and other big mobile music services like Spotify and Pandora.

Buzzwatch: by web or by mobile, Google’s aggressive Music push

If rumours being churned out today are true, then Google is making some pretty aggressive moves into the digital music market. The company is pegged to be releasing a music search-and-purchase service, for both on-line and mobile, called either “Google Audio” or “Google Music” depending on where you read. And with apparently official screenshots of the service being sent out by Google, we have to wonder whether is speculation at all.

3 UK teams up with Spotify and HTC

Rating: Bundling with HTC Hero – 3’s first Android
Next month [November 2009], 3 UK will offer HTC’s Hero Android handset with a special tariff bundling the Spotify Premium service.3 will thus provide participants with access to Spotify’s extensive jukebox over its 3G network and enable access to playlists while offline.
Naturally, the HTC Hero will give [...]

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