mobile entertainment

MySpace Rocks And Rolls With New Music Store

Sony Ericsson finally unveiled its response to Nokia Corp.’s Comes With Music service.The company outlined PlayNow plus, a hardware-and-content offering that will bundle as many as 1,000 pre-loaded songs with …

SanDisk’s plan to use memory cards as vehicles for digital music has drawn derisive snorts from Apple fanboys and techier-than-thou types who dominate industry blogs and message boards. But for …

SanDisk Corp. is the latest player hoping to elbow its way onto the music-distribution playground.The Milpitas, Calif.-based company announced plans to sell microSD memory cards with preloaded MP3 music files …

Think Google Inc. has the mobile search space all sewn up? Think again.ChaCha – heard of ’em? – claims to have delivered search results to 1 million users since its …

Best Buy Co. Inc. moved more aggressively into the content-distribution arena, agreeing to pay $121 million to pick up the subscription-based online and mobile music company Napster.The big-box retailer said …

Electronic Arts Inc. announced a pact to bring “Tomb Raider Underworld” and other Eidos Interactive Ltd. titles to mobile.EA Mobile won wireless rights to “Just Cause 2,” “California Games X” …

SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Cottle is pimping his ride with eye-catching rims, fancy hood art and those cool hydraulic things that can bounce a car like a basketball at red …

Zed said it will work with Lionsgate to develop mobile entertainment projects based on the studio’s films. The Spanish content titan will help create and distribute mobile video as well …

SAN FRANCISCO — The world of off-deck content may be moving away from premium SMS and onto the wireless Web.Bango this week said it has seen its WAP transactions in …

SAN FRANCISCO — Verizon Wireless stoked the white-hot social-networking fire, launching three offerings that allow subscribers to share content and stay in contact with their friends.The carrier yesterday unveiled SocialLife, …

SAN FRANCISCO — Full-track downloads are spinning their wheels and subscription services are falling on deaf ears. So Nokia Corp. and its music-industry partners are hoping music lovers will shell …

AOL L.L.C.’s Platform-A debuted a mobile platform and network specifically for serving ads to Apple Inc.’s iPhone.The new offering, which is available through AOL’s Third Screen Media subsidiary, delivers targeted, …

Nokia Corp. is teaming with The Carphone Warehouse to bring its all-you-can-eat mobile music service to U.K. users next month.Comes With Music, as the effort is branded, packages one year …

ESPN Inc. unveiled an expansion of its current agreement with Major League Baseball Advanced Media that “covers all new platforms” including online, interactive television and mobile.The Walt Disney Co. subsidiary …

In an industry that constantly looks for the next big thing, ringtones are yesterday’s news. But the little snippets of music still generate billions of dollars.Ringtone revenues are on the …

Ringtone is part of a three-year campaign to normalize condom use in India. And it’s actually quite catchy.

Those tunes that play while you wait for someone to pick up are expected to generate $4.7 billion in revenue for mobile operators by 2012, according to new research.

Hands-On Mobile Inc. said it has spun off “the bulk” of its business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa to Connect 2 Media in exchange for a minority stake …

A substantial number of mobile users worldwide will follow the Olympics on their cell phones this summer, including nearly 45 percent of United States and 31 percent of United Kingdom …

Can developing free software for mobile phones be a business? It can if you’re Illusion Labs, a fledgling company in the Swedish port city of Malm

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available. —Amobee: Motorola and Cisco …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we’ll review a new wireless application or service from the user’s point of view, with the goal of …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Along with every …

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