All Entries in the "Mobile" Category
Next Mobile Battleground Is Music Subscription Services
The mobile music scene is once again a hotbed of startup activity. In the first wave of innovation, the focus was on ringtones. Now the fashionable thing is music subscription services. The list of companies dabbling in the space are too many to count. Just this week, a Berkeley, Calif. startup called MOG, which has [...]
Rhapsody Mobile App Allows Users to Download and Play Playlists
Monday 26th April 2010, Rhapsody, the US based music subscription service, has launched an update to its iPhone app – the key piece of news being that this update allows users to enjoy using the service anywhere they choose. Apparently this is also the first time Apple has approved this feature in the US. Other [...]
Nokia breaking down the emerging market mobile music barriers?
Whilst the western media slated the launch of the only ‘real’ long-term viable music-subscription-model in the form of Nokia’s ‘Comes With Music’ service, emerging markets like India and Brazil seem to be lapping up the proposition. Yet why such a difference between these two market segments in terms of uptake? Firstly, TMV believe western-market mobile [...]
Special Offer: Exclusive For Music Void Readers
Music Void has done a deal with music ‘place-shifting’ company Didiom that will let our readers experience the very latest in mobile music technology at no cost. Didiom allows music fans to listen to all of their PC based music, audio books and podcasts ‘over the air’ straight to their Blackberry or Windows Mobile handset. [...]
Vodafone Claims 450,000 Music Subscribers
No single kind of digital service is going to save the music business on its own, but every little helps. Doing its bit, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) came to the Midem music-biz event having totted up the number of paying customers it has for unlimited subscription music – the model that offers perhaps the most likely [...]
Spotify-Google Links Just ‘Speculation’
It’s extraordinary how quickly rumour can appear to become fact these days. Case in point: TechCrunch mashing up the two hot trends of Spotify and Nexus One in to a story that Google’s new Android phone will include the music app pre-bundled. The launch came and went with no Spotify announcement, though CNET already rated [...]
Motorola’s Milestone (The U.K.‘s Droid) Flies Off The Virtual Shelves
Some very positive news for Motorola (NYSE: MOT) as we head into the weekend … Online retailer eXpansys says that the Milestone—the U.K.-version of the Droid—sold out in just three hours. eXpansys is the exclusive seller of the handset; the company said it had received well over 1,000 pre-orders for the Milestone a week before [...]
Will The iPhone Finally Be Unleashed?
I know that this is a little off my usual path, but I made a discovery that I felt I had to share. Yesterday it was reported that UK mobile operator O2 plans to allow out-of-contract users to unlock their iPhones for use on other networks. Of course this depends on other carriers picking up [...]
Mobile Music At The Crossroads
This past Monday, I moderated a panel at the Digital Hollywood conference in Santa Monica, California. The topic: Establishing the personalized mobile music experience. While the panelists didn’t reach any earth-shaking conclusions, it became clear that mobile is definitely the final link in the evolution of music’s transition from a product-based business model to service-based [...]
Apple’s Big Challenge is not Spotify but China
As Spotify goes live on Android and the iPhone for its limited number of premium subscribers in Europe, I hear the glee of the geeks Stateside and here. Among other nifty usability features, Spotify can play your entire catalogue offline through playlist caches, so you can listen to the largest music collection on the web [...]
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Apple’s iTunes Store gave labels much-needed succour after its launch in 2003, slowing down big losses by replicating physical’s per-track purchase paradigm in digital. But now, even after many such services have abandoned copy locks, growth in downloads has largely flatlined, or even worse. The new promised land lays in...
