mobile music
Rhapsody reaches 800,000 subscribers, offers more than 12 million tracks
Rhapsody, an on-demand music service, has just announced that the service now has more than 800,000 registered subscribers. In addition, the service is also now offering more than 12 million tracks to its users. More than 150,000 of these subscribers have joined the service since April 2010 when it separated from another music company RealNetworks. more »
Rhapsody BlackBerry app out of beta, brings in streaming music service for a fee
For all of you BlackBerry users out there, you’d be glad to know that the music streaming app Rhapsody has just gone out of beta and is now available for download from the BlackBerry App World as a fully-functioning mobile application. Rhapsody, in case you’re not aware is America’s no.1 subscription music service boasting of more »
Would you buy a Sony Ericsson phone preloaded with Madonna’s ‘Hard Candy’ songs?
If the idea of buying a Sony Ericsson phone preloaded with songs from Madonna’s latest album Hard Candy sounds appealing to you, then you’d be glad to know that Sony Ericsson and Warner Music have sealed a deal that will soon make this a reality. Fortunately for some SE fans who are not as into Madonna’s kind of music, the arrangement would only be good for selected SE handsets but nonetheless these will be released in some 27 countries worldwide.
Actually, Sony Ericsson has began distributing some of the songs from Hard Candy this past May when it bundled a “4 minutes” remix of Madonna’s song with some of its W890 units in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden.
Alltel Wireless taps mSpot for over-the-air music syncing service
As an alternative to cable side-loading, Alltel Wireless has launched its first over-the-air (OTA) music syncing service in partnership with mobile media services provider mSpot. Powered by a funky music service mSpot Remix, it basically enables mobile users to easily stream and wirelessly synchronize all the songs and playlists stored on their PCs or laptops more »
US digital music a $5 billion industry by 2012
Admittedly, digital music is the wave of the future. In the ongoing CES 2008, research firm Yankee Group projects that revenues generated from online and mobile downloads in the U.S. will grow from $1.98 billion in 2007 to $5.34 billion in 2012. Digitization and direct-to-consumer transactions are the two major growth drivers propelling this industry. more »
