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iTunes is the No. 1 fee-based digital music venue according to Ipsos’ fifth annual TEMPO Digital Music Brandscape study. Apple's music distribution service managed to hold on to its position despite Amazon’s success this year, and RealNetworks' Rhapsody’s gains, Retailer Daily reports.The ... |
13 October 2008
05:49 GMT |
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AMG has released Make Music on your Mac. The product contains over 2,000 Apple Loops from AMG’s stable of producers, covering a huge range of styles for an “affordable” price. Styles covered include Pop, Rock, Dance, Hip Hop, House, Synthpop, Drum&Bass, Breakbeat and more.AMG's samples have bee... |
10 October 2008
09:43 GMT |
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Shazam, the British company that presents itself as the world's leading mobile music discovery service provider, has just announced that Vodafone Germany will be offering its new and innovative music application. Called MusicFinder with Shazam, the app will be provided along with the IVR service that many of Vod... |
10 October 2008
09:35 GMT |
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Mirror's Edge is going to be an extremely interesting game. Set to occur in a future dystopian city, where all of the residents are being tightly watched, and only runners and special couriers can walk freely, jumping from building to building to deliver their cargo. The main character is Faith, a young girl wh... |
8 October 2008
02:38 GMT |
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Celebrating the Hispanic Heritage Month, Universal Music Group (UMG) and Flycell, Inc., the well-known North American mobile entertainment company, have just launched the Spanish version of the Flycell Web portal. From now on, Spanish-speaking users will be able to access a wide range of mobile content from Univ... |
7 October 2008
04:04 GMT |
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In case Canada's mobile users are afraid the brand new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic won't reach their country, Nokia has recently posted a page dedicated to the handset, on its Canadian official website. Thus, an upcoming 5800 XpressMusic release north of the US border is confirmed, although there are no exact de... |
6 October 2008
03:05 GMT |
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It has been confirmed that the Copyright Royalty Board decided to keep royalty rates at 9.1 cents, in spite of music publishers demanding an extra 15 cents to be taxed per each downloaded track. Music publishers had drawn a beat on iTunes and RealNetworks' Rhapsody, while concerns of iTunes shutting down arose. ... |
3 October 2008
10:31 GMT |
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To celebrate this year's upcoming Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), a Spanish holiday, Alltel Wireless is preparing to organize a Mi Círculo, Mi Música concert. The bands that will perform during the event are well-known in Mexico and in other Spanish-speaking countries: Reik and Ha-Ash.... |
3 October 2008
09:38 GMT |
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Various reports claim Apple has threatened with pulling the plug on the iTunes Store, should a ruling expected tomorrow force the company to pay more to music makers for each downloaded track. According to The National Music Publishers' Association, songwriters in the US should get between 9 to 15 cents more for... |
1 October 2008
09:22 GMT |
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Perhaps looking to lure in even more customers with its new music phones, Samsung has decided that all of them are to be sold together with the Shazam service. Developed by the British company of the same name, Shazam is an application that will allow owners of Samsung's new music phones to recognize tracks... |
1 October 2008
04:05 GMT |
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Rock’n’Roll, Tag Games' first iPhone title, is currently available on the iTunes App Store. The game combines action and puzzling elements, making it suitable for a wide market. Players jump in the boots of 'Roll', whose friend gets kidnapped. Being the good friend that he is, Roll must rec... |
30 September 2008
15:41 GMT |
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While there are dozens of Windows-themed songs out there, few thought of rubbing those neurons together to compose a song using the sound effects in Mac OS X. Well, this guy did, and it sounds pretty cool. He's also putting the project up for grabs, so you can continue or completely alter what he's started ... |
26 September 2008
04:04 GMT |
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People will always need music-oriented phones, and since Sony Ericsson knows that quite well, it's getting ready to present a brand new handset from the Walkman series. Codenamed Sony Ericsson Rika, this small phone is a slider that apparently comes as the “music brother” (or sister, if you may) of t... |
19 September 2008
06:58 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson’s new and unreleased yet Walkman flagship, the W902, has been recently caught in live, unboxing images. While these do not (and cannot) bring anything new regarding the handset, they surely are a good preview of what users who want to buy the handset will have after this gets to be released. ... |
15 September 2008
11:06 GMT |
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The same day it announced that MySpace, Microsoft Live Search and Ticketmaster were all coming to the Blackberry platform, Canada's RIM also unveiled the future availability of a Slacker Personal Radio application for its smartphone users. Following the agreement between RIM and Slacker, Inc., BlackBerry ow... |
12 September 2008
15:41 GMT |
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Motorola has just announced that it launched two new music-oriented phones in Brazil: Motorola W388 and Motorola W231. To make the handsets more attractive for Brazilian mobile users, the American company has teamed up with NXZero, a popular rock band from Sao Paolo. In consequence, both the W388 and W231 come w... |
12 September 2008
12:07 GMT |
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About a month ahead of the 2008 MOBO Awards, which will take place on October 15 at the Wembley Arena (London, UK), Sony Ericsson has unveiled the fact that it intends to release a MOBO Edition of its popular W910i Walkman phone. Details are scarce for the moment, but we do know that the W910i MOBO should be on ... |
12 September 2008
10:29 GMT |
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Among the newly-introduced products at Apple's September 9 event (Let's Rock), was also a Fourth Generation iPod nano, featuring Apple’s new Genius technology. Steve Jobs said on stage that the new iPod nano was "the thinnest iPod [they]'ve ever made." It is immediately available in 16GB in 8GB f... |
10 September 2008
04:21 GMT |
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Nokia has just announced that its Comes With Music service will first be launched in the UK, in a collaboration with Carphone Warehouse, the giant mobile phone retailer. The new service will be embedded in a special version of the 5310 candybar, awkwardly named "Nokia 5310 XpressMusic Comes With Music Edition." ... |
2 September 2008
10:30 GMT |
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I have heard lots of people complaining about not being able to listen to their favorite music while away from their computer since my first encounter with such a device. This would happen while they are at work, visiting an uncle, an aunt, or even a friend who has different tastes in music. As much as I know t... |
2 September 2008
07:15 GMT |
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Ever thought that Sony Ericsson's W980 and W350 could benefit from new color versions? Good, because the Swedish-Japanese company is preparing to come up with two new colors for the W980 as well as two new ones for the W350. As reported by the SEMC Blog, the W980 will be offered in Opera Brown and Violin Re... |
29 August 2008
03:28 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless has announced today the launch of a new and cool contest that will end with 40 of its customers going to Paradise. Well, not to the real Paradise (if that even exists), but to Bahamas' Paradise Island. The 40 winners will embark on a trip that has as final destination the Atlantis resort fr... |
28 August 2008
07:58 GMT |
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First appeared about four months ago, back in April, Philips M600 has recently been released on the European market - in Russia, more exactly. Produced by China Electronics Corp. (like all the Philips handsets manufactured after 2006), the M600 was initially released in China, and now it's time for it to try and... |
25 August 2008
03:18 GMT |
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Ableton Live, the popular music program for Mac OS X that allows you to spontaneously compose, record, remix, improvise and edit your ideas in a seamless audio/MIDI environment, has been updated to fix a number of nasty bugs. You can download the new version of the software (7.0.10) here.Ableton Live uses loop-based ... |
20 August 2008
06:16 GMT |
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US mobile users in need of an affordable music-oriented phone should be happy to find out that the largest North American carrier (AT&T, of course) has just released a new handset for them: Sony Ericsson W350. The retail price of W350 is $229.99, but with a contract agreement for two years, the phone can be bought ... |
20 August 2008
04:11 GMT |
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It is rumored that Playlouder, a website that offers, via BitTorrent, free music downloads to British users, will partner with Virgin media to give a wider range of playlists to its subscribers. Although people don't pay anything to listen to their favorite songs, the artists and distribution companies are retri... |
18 August 2008
10:09 GMT |
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Telstra, the largest mobile carrier in Australia, announced the availability of a new and huge online collection of MP3s, via its subsidiary BigPond. In consequence, the BigPond Music store now allows music lovers to search and download songs (in MP3 format) from the most famous record labels in the world: Sony BMG, ... |
14 August 2008
08:42 GMT |
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Thumbplay, a leading US mobile entertainment company headquarted in New York, announced that MTV Networks selected its services in order to enhance and take care of its mobile content for the following channels: MTV, MTV2, MTV Tr3s, MTV Jams and MTV Hits. Following the new agreement, MTV Mobile will receive personali... |
12 August 2008
07:56 GMT |
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T-Mobile USA released, yesterday, a new handset from Nokia's XpressMusic family, namely the 5610. Although the phone is available in Europe since 2007, it is brand new for North America; hence, it will probably be well received by mobile users there. Initially rumored to be sold by T-Mobile for $150 with a co... |
12 August 2008
02:58 GMT |
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Vodafone, the second largest mobile operator in the world in terms of subscribers' number, has partnered with MTV in order to bring music fans a new "multi-platform program" called Vodafone Soundbites. Offering a comprehensive view of the global music scene, Vodafone Soundbites is comprised of 21 shows, eac... |
11 August 2008
05:53 GMT |
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Vodafone UK has announced the release of W980, Sony Ericsson's latest Walkman flagship phone, which will come preloaded with Usher's new album, "Here I Stand". The new W980 will be available starting this weekend, for free (with a data plan and a contract agreement for 18 months) or for prices up to 300 GBP... |
7 August 2008
03:00 GMT |
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Just two days before the debut of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games, AT&T, the leading North American mobile carrier and one of US Olympic Team's official partners, has announced the release of its Team USA Soundtrack. The Olympic soundtrack was produced by AT&T in collaboration with lots of famous musicians and i... |
6 August 2008
11:09 GMT |
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At the same time with the unveiling of its three new ROKR phones, Motorola also announced the availability of two portable speakers, which are also part of its ROKR family of products. The new devices are called MOTOROKR EQ7 and MOTOROKR EQ5 and come to enlarge Motorola's line-up of music accessories.Unlike the ... |
5 August 2008
11:34 GMT |
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Motorola has just announced the future availability of three new mobile phones in its ROKR family: EM30, EM28 and EM25. The handsets target young consumers who want their handsets to pack lots of music related features. First appeared on the Web several months ago, Motorola EM30 is a candybar that resembles the ROK... |
5 August 2008
10:40 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless, North America's second largest mobile operator, has teamed up with Linkin Park (the Grammy Award-winning rock band) and Chris Cornell (ex-front men of Soundgarden and Audioslave), in order to get fans closer to them during the upcoming Projekt Revolution US summer tour. Debuting on August 7, t... |
5 August 2008
03:03 GMT |
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If a Nokia 5320 XpressMusic is all you've ever wanted but you couldn't get one until now because of "unavailability reasons", we are happily informing you that the handset has hit the shelves. For the moment, we're only sure about its availability in the stores across Finland (Nokia's home country... |
2 August 2008
04:30 GMT |
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Samsung, the world's second largest handset manufacturer, and AT&T, North America's biggest mobile carrier, have announced the launch of this year's Samsung AT&T Summer Krush music tour in the US. The tour features leading artists who are performing live, in unique shows, in several important American ... |
1 August 2008
12:14 GMT |
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As if it's not already the first choice for most mobile users from all over the world, Nokia has recently cut the prices for lots of its devices in order to make them even more attractive. Thus, according to Reuters, starting this month we will be able to get Nokia phones for prices about 10% lower. Most of the... |
1 August 2008
03:18 GMT |
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LG Electronics announced today having signed an agreement with Dolby Laboratories, Inc., the famous American company specialized in audio technologies, in order to create advanced multimedia phones. Following the agreement, LG will integrate the Dolby Mobile technology into future select handsets. Especially optimize... |
30 July 2008
11:29 GMT |
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Motorola U9 is not exactly the newest handset to come from Moto, but the company has only now released it in its home country (the US, of course). Available only online, from Motorola's Store, in an unlocked GSM version, the U9 costs $275.99 and will allow you to use it with any of the US GSM carriers (AT&T, T-... |
30 July 2008
07:17 GMT |
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ARTISTdirect, Inc., a leading online entertainment provider, announced the future availability of its own branded mobile channels, following an agreement with Boopsie, Inc., a California-based provider of mobile search clients. Via the Boopsie Mobile Platform, mobile users will have access to ARTISTdirect content, in... |
29 July 2008
05:22 GMT |
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LG's portfolio of music-oriented handsets is continuously growing, and the latest phone to target music lovers is the LG KP265, recently announced in Russia. Although this new LG looks quite nice, coming in a slider form factor, its features are not too advanced, making it an entry-level device. LG wants the KP2... |
28 July 2008
02:26 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson W902, the new Walkman flagship phone announced by the Swedish-Japanse company on July 22, has also appeared in two official videos, a Promo one and a Marketing one. Presented as a phone that can provide an "outstanding music sound", the new W902 is one of the nicest SE handsets to come this year (toge... |
24 July 2008
09:08 GMT |
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Motorola EM30, the latest handset from Moto's ROKR family, was recently spotted in several live images, which might mean the phone could be officially unveiled soon. The new handset borrows a lot from the ROKR E8, which is already available in Europe, Asia and North America (T-Mobile is the carrier offering the ... |
21 July 2008
03:09 GMT |
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LG Mobile Phones has recently announced a new partnership with the VH1 Save The Music Foundation and the pop star Natasha Bedingfield. The young English singer and songwriter has donated a live version of "Angel", a song from her latest album, Pocketful Of Sunshine, for the creation of an exclusive mobile ringtone. ... |
19 July 2008
06:39 GMT |
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Celebrating 3 years since the first Walkman phone hit the market, Sony Ericsson is preparing the release of at least three new W-series handsets. The Swedish-Japanese company officially confirmed the new releases for July 22 (that's next week, on Tuesday).For the moment, the rumored handsets that will get an off... |
18 July 2008
03:00 GMT |
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iTunes fans, and especially those living in the UK, might remember that Apple once promised to lower the prices it charged for music on its UK iTunes Store, within six months, to match the already standardized pricing on iTunes across Europe. With reports flying in saying that 99 Euro cents now equals 79p (close to t... |
16 July 2008
16:26 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless announced today that it has teamed up with Jonas Brothers, the famous American pop-rock group, in order to bring their music closer to its subscribers. Jonas Brothers are on a US tour called "Burning Up" and Verizon offers its customers the chance to win tickets to the upcoming venues. All those who... |
14 July 2008
14:07 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson W980, the high-end Walkman handset announced by the Swedish-Japanese company back in February, is no longer in the "coming soon" section of Sony Ericsson's official website. This means the handset should be commercially available in the next days, although Sony Ericsson has not made any announcemen... |
14 July 2008
09:35 GMT |
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Rogers Wireless, the largest Canadian mobile operator, has prepared new color versions for two of its music-oriented phones. More exactly, Nokia 5310 XpressMusic and Sony Ericsson W580i will be offered in new red editions, starting the next few weeks. Nokia 5310 XpressMusic is available in Canada since May, but only ... |
11 July 2008
05:35 GMT |
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