Mobile TV took a big step forward last week as Qualcomm Inc. announced plans to deploy an $800 million nationwide network delivering multimedia messaging service broadcasts to mobile handsets. Use of the network, which is expected to come online in 2006, will be offered...
Mobile-phone industry lawyers said they intend to ask a D.C. court to dismiss six brain-cancer suits on federal pre-emption grounds. In July, U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake of Baltimore sent back the six lawsuits to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia where...
LOS ANGELES-AT&T Wireless Services Inc., which last week was acquired by Cingular Wireless L.L.C., is taking Napster mobile.The Internet music vendor is introducing Napster To Go, a mobile music subscription service for AWS users on the Audiovox SMT5600 smart phone. The service, which costs...
SAN FRANCISCO-Billboard magazine and Consect, a mobile market analysis firm, announced the Billboard Hot Ringtones chart, an aggregated chart of U.S. polyphonic ringtone sales, which will premiere in the Nov. 6 issue of Billboard in the debut of the magazine's new Digital Entertainment special...
SAN FRANCISCO-Billboard magazine and Consect, a mobile market analysis firm, announced the Billboard Hot Ringtones chart, an aggregated chart of U.S. polyphonic ring-tone sales, which will premiere in the Nov. 6 issue of Billboard in the debut of the magazine's new Digital Entertainment special...
You could call Bill Diggins lots of things-music mogul, artists' advocate, maybe even visionary.
Just don't call him a ringtone salesman.
According to the founder of 2-year-old music marketer Diggit Entertainment Group, a truly successful mobile content sales campaign must go far beyond simple retailing.
"We're not...
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Carriers should look to non-voice services—particularly ring tones—to increase revenues, according to two studies released this week.A survey conducted by Harris Interactive for ForceNine Consulting and Wirthlin Worldwide indicated non-voice services other than text messaging are in the early stages of consumer acceptance...
No matter what you call them-ringtones, true tones, master tones, hi-fi ringers-mobile music downloads are producing huge revenues. After a few years of market trials and quiet experimentation, ringtones took the wireless industry by storm last year with 50 Cent's "In Da Club." The...
SAN FRANCISCO-Faith West Inc. will offer licensed tracks from labels including EMI Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and RCA Label Group to U.S. Cellular, the mobile music company said.Through Faith West's Modtones DJ, wireless users can download full-fidelity ring tones from artists such as...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS released download figures for a number of its top-selling music ring tones, showing four tones from Beyonce Knowles' "Dangerously in Love" album have cumulatively sold more than 1 million downloads. The album has sold 7 million copies worldwide.Other top-selling music...
Apple Computer Inc. last week announced it will further its foray into the wireless world by allowing its downloadable iTunes to play on Motorola Inc. mobile handsets.Through the partnership, users will be able to transfer songs from the iTunes jukebox on their desktop computers,...
ROSEMONT, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and Apple said they will partner to allow users to transfer songs from the iTunes jukebox to Motorola's mobile handsets using USB or Bluetooth connections. The application will be available through a new Apple iTunes mobile music player that Motorola plans...
ANDOVER, Mass.-Millions of European wireless phone customers can now download entire songs directly to their handsets, mobile music company Chaoticom, Inc. announced. European carriers Orange U.K., Eurotel and Telenor Mobile Norway have partnered with Massachusetts-based Chaoticom to allow customers to browse, preview and...
NEW YORK-Warner Music Group will partner with wireless entertainment and marketing company Mobileway to incorporate wireless branding into its CD packaging. Five-digit short codes will be featured on WMG CD packages, album posters, artist Web sites and online banner ads, allowing consumers to directly...
LONDON-Satisfactory business models have yet to be established between the mobile industry and the music industry, according to "Mobile Music," a new executive briefing from Baskerville/Informa Media.As advanced handsets offer the music industry more opportunities in the mobile content space, revenue-sharing and other business...
NUREMBERG, Germany-Nokia Corp. will incorporate Coding Technologies' aacPlus audio codec into its future products under a newly signed licensing deal.aacPlus, which offers high audio quality at low bit rates through an audio compression scheme, has been adopted by SK Telecom, Vodafone and MmO2 for...
"You just heard `Turn off the lights' by Frank de Jojo."For $1 per message, wireless users in the United States can identify virtually any song they hear, whether it's on the radio, in a supermarket or at a club. Currently available through AT&T Wireless...
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LONDON-EMI Music, Downplay, In-Fusio, Omni Entertainment, MmO2, Qualcomm Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are among the newest members of the Mobile Entertainment Forum, the group announced. The organization said the caliber of its new members is further evidence of its position as the leading...
LONDON-MmO2 has inked an agreement with audio compression specialists Coding Technologies under which the operator will use MPEG-4 aacPlus as the audio compression standard for the O2 Music service launched this week.The O2 Music service provides an "over the air" music download service that...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Wireless technology company L.M. Ericsson announced a new music product through a partnership with Sony Music Germany that delivers bundled packages of artist pictures, ring tones, music clips, artist news, and music recommendations. Swisscom Mobile launched the service, dubbed M-USE, as part of...
LAS VEGAS-Nellymoser Inc. announced the availability of MedleyTunes and MedleyTones, mobile music distribution solutions for the new generation of mass-market Java-enabled handsets, at this week's CTIA show in Las Vegas.MedleyTunes allows wireless users to listen to high-quality music clips on their cell phones, while...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-The market for downloadable ring tones in the United States could grow to as much as $1 billion by 2007, according to research firm IDC."Moving from ring tones to a fuller mobile music services industry will be a critical evolution in reaching the...
