All Entries Tagged With: "Omnifone"
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 [...]
The Funding Gap
MOG the music blog network, announced this past Thursday that they had secured $5 million dollars (U.S.) in new financing from Menlo Ventures and others, giving them a total raise of $12 million dollars. This is great news for MOG’s founder, David Hyman, and even better news for digital music start-ups around the world. In [...]
TMV MidemNet 2009 Report
The whos, whats, whens, wheres, whys and hows from this year’s fascinating MidemNet… Well it has been a pretty manic couple of days. TMV have been undertaking numerous high level video interviews of key movers and shakers from the digital side of the business. This restricted our ability to attend all of the panels and [...]
Omnifone and Gracenote team up to eliminate file format and DRM headaches
January 9th: On Wednesday, Omnifone and Gracenote announced that they have developed a product that will provide easy integration of a consumer’s personal device with other external devices, such as transferring data from mobile to desktop PCs, home entertainment systems and in-car stereos. Hallelujah, there is a God! It’s the world’s first real opportunity for [...]
TMV Music Industry Predictions for 2009
If 2008 was the year that music went truly digital, we’re predicting that 2009 will be the year that music got a lot more consumer-friendly. With any luck, 2008 will be the year we look back upon and say ‘that was the last time we heard about DRM limiting sales’ or ‘that was the last [...]
SE To Launch PlayNow plus in Sweden & UK
Sony Ericsson has announced that this November will see the Swedish launch of PlayNow plus, its mobile music download service, with a UK rollout planned for sometime in early 2009.
TMV Video Interview: Rob Lewis, CEO – Omnifone
TMV interviews Rob Lewis, CEO for Omnifone, a company that ensures consumers globally have the freedom to download, play and share unlimited amounts of music any time, any place. Rob describes Omnifone’s Music Station – it’s services, technology and social networking aspects. He also gives us an insight into the future of Omnifone and mobile [...]







Whilst Apple’s app store to date has so far been a resounding success, TMV asks what are the long-term prospects for app stores in general? As usual Apple was the first to innovate in this area. However, the fact it was the key innovator in this marketplace does not preclude...


