Category Archives: Mobile Music
Mobile music gets rooted in your home: Spotify teams with Sonos
Mobile music app Spotify has had an interesting history. The music streaming service went from being trapped in “development hell” in the Apple store, to being one of the most popular music apps available. And now it has teamed up with wireless music system maker Sonos to bring that music into every room in your house. Continue reading
V Festers get Virgin Media Music Store sneak preview
Rating: Alliance with IMImobile gets V Music going
Where better to launch a new online store aimed at mobile phone users than at a music festival which you yourself front? So that’s exactly why Virgin has decided to let V festival attendees try out the service for free before its official launch. Continue reading
MP3tunes bridges iTunes & Android Store
Rating: Listen to all your music on any platform
Migrating from one of the leading mobile handset platforms – Apple, Android or Nokia – over to a rival platform can prove extremely fraught. This particularly applies to music tracks. What happens if you’ve previously used an Apple iPod but have started to download tracks to an Android handset? MP3tunes thinks it has a solution. Continue reading
Fox announces app competition – after nixing mobile
In a case of very odd timing, Fox Broadcasting Company has just announced a lucrative mobile application competition… the same time it announced it was selling off its mobile division. Continue reading
The best Android news and links: search, video and tablets
GoMo News has rounded up the day’s hottest Android news and links. From malicious wallpaper; to mobile search; to Eric Schmidts dreams of $10 billion a year, we’ve got it. Continue reading
Mobile barcodes: Revolver Magazine augments music with QMCODES
Music magazine Revolver is trying something different this month. The July 27th issue of the bi-monthly magazine is a special collector’s issue, dedicated to popular American metal band Avenged Sevenfold – and to make it really special, Revolver has teamed up with QMCODES to integrate mobile barcodes throughout the magazine. Continue reading
Musicians using apps to meet you Backstage
A new mobile service aimed at musicians has finished trials, and is being launched to the industry at large. Mobile Backstage allows musicians to create a mobile “hub” for their fans, combining a lot of different “hot” aspects of mobile technology: social networking, content sharing and ‘checking in’. Continue reading
India to get iPhone 4 in October
Review: Frustratingly behind other major markets, but a marked improvement over India’s 9-month wait for the 3GS. Still, don’t expect many takers in the world’s most price-sensitive phone market Continue reading
Muzicall wants to be Ring Back Tone Clearing House
Rating: Publish an RBT once, sell to all
In Europe, the market for Ring Back Tones [RBTs] is currently fragmented which makes it difficult for content owners to capitalise on their existing music portfolios. Muzicall, however, hopes to overcome this obstacle offering a ‘clearing house’. Content owners will only need to post their content once and it will then become available to multiple Ring Back Tone services. Continue reading
Shazam releases premium app for Android music lovers
Music discovery app Shazam has begun life as a two-stream service on Android today. Users can pay a reasonable fee for the full version, called Shazam Encore, or they can use the limited free version. For those who’ve taken the Paid App Pledge (check it out, it’s fascinating), now’s a great time to dig into your pocket. Continue reading
Top Ten Facts and Tips about Ring Back Tones (RBTs) …
Following criticism in our recent story – Ring Back Tone? Ring Back Tone? What the heck is a Ring Back Tone?, IMIMobile has responded with these 10 Tips & Facts which are designed to throw some light on the RBT market. Continue reading
Ringback tone? Ringback tone? What the heck is a ringback tone?
Rating: Muzicall and IMImobile to promote RBTs in Europe … maybe
For some strange reason Muzicall and IMImobile can’t quite understand why, “Only two per cent of mobile phone users own Ringback Tones in Europe whereas in regions such as India that number is above 25 per cent.” Here’s a clue. Not only don’t the pair explain what a ringback tone is, they don’t even say why anybody would want one. Continue reading
Readers receive enormous bills from Dada service
Rating: The GoMo guide to stopping premium rate texts
How do you stop premium Rate text services when ‘STOP’ doesn’t work? GoMo News appears to have unearthed a problem with Dada Mobile‘s service. No fewer than eight readers have so far complained that they are unable to stop the service and one has just told us his bill has reached $100. Continue reading
Scanbuy is giving away its mobile barcode scanner for free
Scanbuy is one of the most active companies in the mobile barcoding world, with a string of high-profile brand and publisher deals. Today it has announced a move that it will make it popular with mobile application developers as well. The ScanLife scanning application is being released as a completely free add-in for 3rd party applications – so any developer can now place an unbranded version of the ScanLife scanner into their own application for no cost. Continue reading
Mobile music is WINplc’s gateway drug for operators
WINplc announced a major mobile deal with Hutchinson earlier this month – providing a serious content services for the telecom operator’s Austrian division. Today, GoMo News talked to WINplc’s business development manager for central Europe, Gordan Gajski, about the plans and directions that the company hopes to take – and in particular, the different strategies needed for eastern and western Europe. Continue reading
