MusicStation is fine tuned for Java handsets

Rating: Best kept secret behind mobile music download service
Chatting to Omnifone’s PR guru, Tim Hadley, provided a very interesting insight into how the  company’s MusicStation offering came about. Key to the product’s whole existence is proprietary  technology it calls its device adaptive architecture (DAA).
In essence, DAA automatically generates a Java client for any new handset [...]

Motorola ROKR E8 hits T-Mobile USA Retail & Online July 7th

Motorola’s E8 will be available exclusively online and in retail outlets through T-Mobile USA from 7th July. The ROKR E8 is targeted at music lovers with its simple one touch ModeShift technology which transforms the phone’s tactile control surface from phone to MP3 Player.
Also a first for Motorola is the new FastScroll navigation wheel which [...]

AT&T announce two new mobile applications

According to the folks at Slashphone AT&T have announced two new mobile applications, JuiceCaster 6.0 and Buzzwire designed to keep you connected to your online world.
JuiceCaster 6.0 lets you share videos and pictures from your wireless device to the Web’s most popular social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. AT&T customers also have exclusive access to [...]

Wolfson chips should make multimedia phones universal

Rating: Only 12 per cent of all handsets left out by 2011
It’s the kind of prediction which rings true. If you can massively increase the length of time over which a handset can play music, then all mobile phones will be used as MP3 players.
And that’s exactly what chipmaker, Wolfson, reckons it has done.
The company [...]

Java mobile music download service loses its funding

Rating: UBC Media wants to drop Cliq service
An innovative service which linked digital radio stations in the UK to a downloadable music track service is being quietly dropped by its creator, UBC Media. But Pascal Grierson, the driving force behind Cliq, says that all is not lost.

Essentially UBC/Unique developed a Java client which could be [...]

Sony Ericsson developing geo-tagging location based search for music.

Rating: God Save the Queen to all arrivals at Heathrow?????
According to a piece on the Dialaphone blog Sony Ericsson have patented a system entitled Location Dependant Music Search.
The patent says the following:
A portable device may perform a location dependent music search. During the search, the portable device determines location information that identifies a location of [...]

The Cloud looks at location based music content

Rating: Even allows unsigned bands to sell their content
Had an interesting discussion with Wi-Fi network operator, The Cloud, last week. It’s taking a very novel angle on location based advertising. The focus is on music in particular.
You might wonder how tenuous a connexion this has with the cellular world until you realise that The Cloud [...]

Apple leads, Nokia follows - but are we ready?

Rating: Music first, surfing next
Why on earth is Apple supposedly confident of hitting its sales target for the iPhone? Given that it needed to sell 10 million units within 365 days? Yet that’s supposedly what Apple COO, Tim Cook, is predicting. The question isn’t so much as will Apple really make it? As much as [...]

Nokia groove to the beat with two new XpressMusic devices.

Rating: get down and shake that booty
Nokia have released two more music inspired devices to its XpressMusic range. “Today’s additions to the XpressMusic range up the ante with new ways for consumers to access their media as well as interact and share content with friends and communities anytime, anywhere.” said Jo Harlow, Vice President, LIVE [...]

Sony Gracenote’s to the tune of USD260 million

What do we say? Bargain!
I am a huge fan of Gracenote and I use the application in my SonyEricsson Walkman phone all the time. But I did predict last year that Yahoo! would buy Gracenote as it powers the company’s lyric search (nevermind).

Sony needs to focus on a strategy though of getting Gracenote from the [...]

Nokia signs Sony BMG to Comes with Music

Rating: I get demo of Say & Play

I trotted down to London’s Covent Garden to hear Nokia announce that it has definitely done the deal with Sony BMG to participate in its ‘Comes with Music’ offering. I also discovered ‘Say and Play’.
Only snag with Comes with Music? There’s neither a definite launch date nor guide [...]

Snoop Dogg the marketing face of Germany’s VybeMobile where music meets mobile

“pump it like it’s hot, man”.
SnoopDogg is the new marketing face of Vybemobile. Vybemobile is a music mobile brand in the Germany.
 
The campaign around vybe brings together media, technology and telecom in every day life. The campign is being pushed on mobile as the making of the next generation of music culture with Universal Music, TV [...]

Sony Ericsson talks up TrackID

Rating:  offers integration to mobile operators
A very interesting event in London’s Soho saw Google, Sony Ericsson, and 3 UK sitting around the same round table. Revealing comments were made by Sony Ericsson’s Anders Runevad about content services.
He claimed that the company’s TrackID service – which identifies music - is getting the equivalent of two hits [...]

GoMo News on Wheels! - Sony Pictures TV Intl - Assaf Tarnopolsky

Featured above is Assaf Tarnopolsky, Sony Pictures Television International’s (SPTI) vice president, mobile programming and digital product development. Based at SPTI’s headquarters in Culver City, California, Tarnopolsky is responsible for developing and implementing a cross-company mobile content strategy, including video, games, personalization and premium short message service consumer campaigns. Original video and related personalization products [...]

CTIA: Mobile Video takes an early lead in visibility followed by mobile advertising

Mobile video is the spring chicken of CTIA
The day before CTIA conference is about to start and already my inbox is full of mobile video services and the triggering of mobile advertising in to these services. Mobile Video is unquestionably going to be the leader in the new up and coming services at CTIA and [...]

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