While the wireless industry haggles over the price of anti-piracy software supported by the Open Mobile Alliance, Microsoft Corp. is quietly gaining traction in the mobile world with its proprietary digital rights management technology. The standoff continues between industry groups such as the GSM...
NEW YORK-Wireless and broadband Internet will account for a large portion of total spending growth in the global entertainment and media industry, according to PricewaterhouseCooper's "Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2005-2009" report.Total revenues from new spending streams such as wireless will increase from $11.4...
NEW YORK-Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. will power a streaming audio service for Sprint PCS subscribers, the companies said. The country's No. 2 pay-radio service said it has agreed to make some of its music channels available for the service, which may launch later this...
SINGAPORE-L.M. Ericsson and Lucent Technologies Inc. announced separate professional services wins in Asia. In Pakistan, Ericsson's managed services deal with Warid Telecommunications Pvt. Ltd. has been expanded so that Ericsson will build out and maintain the GSM/GPRS network in 20 more cities.The expansion is...
Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. will power a streaming audio service for Sprint PCS subscribers, the companies said Tuesday. The country's No. 2 pay-radio service said it has agreed to make some of its music channels available for the service, which may launch later this...
L.M. Ericsson and Lucent Technologies Inc. announced separate professional services wins in Asia. In Pakistan, Ericsson's managed services deal with Warid Telecommunications Pvt. Ltd. has been expanded so that Ericsson will build out and maintain the GSM/GPRS network in 20 more cities. The expansion...
TOKYO-MTV Network will launch a subscription-based mobile entertainment service in Japan by the end of the month, the Viacom Inc. subsidiary said Thursday.Flux, which is expected to launch June 30, will deliver short videos and music clips through mobile and online networks, allowing subscribers...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Internet-based digital radio network Mercora said it is bringing its user-contributed streaming audio service to Windows Mobile-based handhelds. The company launched IM Radio Mobile v1.0, featuring more than 20,000 commercial-free radio channels, near-CD quality sound and instant messaging and chat capabilities. The...
Cassandra and Curtis Brown have set their sights on perhaps the most niche of all mobile markets: fans of "holy hip-hop." The Pittsburgh-area couple recently partnered with mobile music provider Xingtone to offer 10 Christian-themed urban ringtones from tunes with names like "Christ Soljahz,"...
Music companies are rushing to bring streaming music services to U.S. wireless users, but while the technology exists to provide radio-like offerings to wireless users, the viability of a radio-like business model in wireless is far from clear. Clear Channel Communications Inc., the top...
ANDOVER, Mass.-Mobile music provider Groove Mobile announced plans to deliver a personalized music service to 14- to 24-year-old wireless users. The offering, which will launch in Europe this summer, will target young music fans and offer music choices based on user preferences, tastes and...
LONDON-Young American wireless users will spend nearly $500 million on ringtones, ring-back tones and full-track mobile downloads by 2007, according to new research from mobileYouth.While CD single sales continue to decline, according to the report, record companies and artists will increasingly look to the...
LONDON-In what appears to be a first for the mobile music market, U.K. subscribers can choose which part of a new single from hip-hop star Fabolous to use as their ringtones. The CD single "Baby" from Warner Music's Atlantic Records includes built-in software that,...
An association of mobile carriers and content firms joined the fight last week against a group of technology companies it said is looking to overcharge for anti-piracy software. The Mobile Entertainment Forum blasted a proposal by MPEG LA, the licensing authority of the Moving...
MusiKube broke an almost year-long silence last week, resurfacing to launch a mobile music identification application that allows users to purchase ringtones directly over their handsets. With the service, called SongLink'd, a mobile user can play a tune directly into a phone and receive...
In what appears to be a first for the mobile music market, U.K. subscribers can choose which part of a new single from hip-hop star Fabolous to use as their ringtones.The CD single "Baby" from Warner Music's Atlantic Records includes built-in software that, when...
MusiKube re-appeared on the radar screen Tuesday, announcing the launch of a text-message mobile music identification application that allows users to purchase ringtones directly over their handsets. With the service, dubbed SongLink'd, mobile users can identify songs by playing tunes into the phone, and...
Mforma Group Inc. is branching out from the wireless gaming arena and waltzing onto the crowded dance floor of mobile music. The Bellevue, Wash.-based entertainment publisher this week is expected to unveil a licensing deal with music-industry magazine Billboard to provide news, artist information...
SEOUL, South Korea-Wireless data behemoth WiderThan expanded its mobile music offerings Wednesday, launching a global service to deliver ringtones, ring-back tones, music videos and streaming tunes.The sister company of Korean carrier SK Telecom unveiled WiderMusic, an open standards platform being offered to operators worldwide....
Virgin Radio launched what it claims is the first third-generation radio player, enabling listeners around the world to tune in to the U.K. station's broadcasts on their handsets. The service, powered by mobile music company Sydus, is available to high-speed 2.5-generation or 3G users...
HAMPSHIRE, United Kingdom-An exploding demand for full-track downloads will help push mobile music revenues to more than $9.3 billion by 2009, according to a new report from Juniper Research.According to the study, ringtones and master tones will continue to represent the bulk of mobile...
BOSTON-Mobile marketer YellowPepper launched a music-identification and delivery application featuring targeted personalized content. The 5-year-old company unveiled its Mobile Music Services Suite, which sends a text message with information on tunes played into a handset with song title and artist. The application then offers...
The news that Microsoft Corp. will join Nokia Corp. to deliver a mobile-music platform may have been among the more startling developments at last week's 3GSM World Congress, but it was only the first of a half-dozen mobile music announcements both out of France...
TOKYO-MTV Japan and Yamaha said they made available Japan's first music recognition service, MTV Music Finder, to KDDI Corp. subscribers across Japan.In partnership with Shazam Entertainment, a U.K.-based audio recognition company, MTV Japan will work with its local licensee, SystemK Corp., to deliver Shazam's...
