Mobile personal playlists are on their way from Gracenote and Omnifone. Combining Omnifone’s unlimited music service with Gracenote tech, music will have more portability than ever. Access to multi-million track libraries will be possible from mobile phones, desktop PCs, home entertainment systems and in-car stereos, with playlists seamlessly moving from device to device.
Vodafone announces the launch of two significant advances in the way New Zealanders can access the music they love. Vodafone MusicStation is a revolutionary unlimited music downloads service, launching today in New Zealand. And, also from today, customers of Vodafone vmusic website (www.vmusic.co.nz) are able to download high quality DRM-free songs.
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).
The Search & Discovery Award
AquaMobile – “Clic2C”
Gracenote – “Gracenote Mobile Music Platform”
JumpTap – “SmartComponents”
kannuu – “kannuu”
MCN – “Yahoo! Mobile Japan DigiCon Search”
I’ve just got back from the GSM’s industry’s annual bun fight - the Global Mobile Awards, and overall I’m pretty impressed by the results. It was also highly amusing that the night’s compere, Graham Norton, got in a joke at EU Comms Commissioner, Viviane Reding’s expense.
Rating: OMNIFONE
By Bena Roberts
I am holding a double A4 sided flyer that I picked up from the 3 Shop in Hong Kong. Its all about the 3 MusicStation and the shop also featured similar branding and promotional push.
