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Cricket’s Muve Music streaming service comes to Android by way of Samsung Vitality

Cricket Communications has just announced that its new music service, Muve Music will be available on the Samsung Vitality Android phone. With that, the Samsung Vitality becomes Cricket’s first Muve Music enabled smartphone. In case you’re interested to know, the Samsung Vitality is an Android 2.3 Gingerbread-powered smartphone featuring an 800MHz processor. It will be more »

What could a Google Music service do to iTunes?

This morning, Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch has it from multiple sources that Google is prepping some sort of music service for the US. It is unknown if it is a download service to compete with the likes of iTunes and Amazon or if it is a streaming service such as Pandora or Last.fm. What more »

Palm Pre bits: No launch day telesales, no 3G music downloads and a 3-megapixel camera

This latest roundup of Palm Pre information includes some availability, or actually lack of availability information, discusses how you will not be able to download MP3s over 3G and confirms that the camera does not suck. So, with that, lets gets right into the news. First up we have learned that the Palm Pre will not initially be available online or by calling telesales. It seems that if you are planning on getting a Palm Pre on the launch then you will be required to visit a store.

“Palm Pre will be available through sprint.com and Telesales sometimes after the initial launch date of June 6th.”

Thankfully, as we have already seen there will be plenty of stores to choose from such as Wal-Mart, Radio Shack and more. Moving on from there, another tidbit that was discovered in the Palm Pre manual that was leaked lets us know that we will not be able to download music from the primary (Amazon MP3) music store over Sprint’s 3G connection.

Get educated with Android

Android is taking the books and the teachers out of music lessons. The newest way to learn music – via your cell phone (as long as you have Android).

Among the first of many Android applications is SplashPlay Mobile Music Maker, an instrument learning and music sharing tool. Wherever your phone goes, SplashPlay goes with you to learn, listen or share music anywhere. Right now, guitar is the only instrument compatible with the software. Continued after the break.

iTunes climbs over Wal-Mart

“Can anyone not see a day when iTunes passes Wal-Mart? ” I wrote that last month in a post about iTunes playing second fiddle to Wal-Mart. Today, the news comes that there is a change in the #1 position for music sales, and that leader is iTunes. Apple sent out an email yesterday to employees more »