TMV Looks back On Our Predictions to See Where We Were Right and Where We Got It Wrong

Last year saw The Music Void make its first foray into future gazing with our bold (and not so bold) predictions for the music industry in 2009.  With no pedigree of clairvoyance to fall back upon, we probably erred on the side of caution at times, but all things considered we acquitted ourselves reasonably well [...]

Jim Balsillie CO-CEO RIM (Blackberry)

The Music Void – Jim Balsillie on MUZU.

Event Report – Billboard Music & Money Symposium (NYC)

Last week’s Billboard Music and Money Symposium, held under the backdrop of the global market downturn, was a day devoted to the continued pursuit of an answer to the question that has bedeviled both music and finance people for the better part of a decade: How do we make money with music in a fragmented [...]

TMV video interview with Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO – RIM (Blackberry)

Jim provides some dynamic insight into where RIM views its positioning in the mobile music space and he direction it is moving in the medium term future. Feel free to leave your comments below on what Jim says in the interview.

The Music Void – Jim Balsillie on MUZU.

Does Mobile Entertainment Sector Have Valid Reasons To Be Bullish?

Despite mobile handset sales being down by 12.6% in Q4 2008 as compared to Q4 2007 (Source: IDC 2009), the mobile sector is confident music content sales will continue to grow despite the current global recession. TMV would like to delve deeper and see if there are clear foundations to the sectors positive forecasts [...]

Dell Rumoured to Enter Smartphone Market

As reported by Reuters, Dell is apparently planning to enter the smart phone market as early as March this year. The company has been designing smart phone prototypes for over a year. Going further it was reported that if indeed Dell does launch a smart phone it would be based around Google’s Android operating system. [...]

Apple iPhone vs. Blackberry Storm

First lets examine the limitations each phone currently share. Firstly, they are both constricted by the fact that they are both tied to contracts with only one network. In other words, if you want either of these handsets and you do not like the operators due to any number of reasons (customer service or lack [...]

TMV Completes 19 Video Interviews at MidemNet 2009

Whilst the TMV team could not make all the conference sessions at MidemNet (to read TMVs Midemnet 2009 report click here), we were instead very busy video interviewing keynote speakers and senior executives on their views regarding the direction of the digital music business. A list of the 18 video interviews is provided below:

J.Y.Park, [...]

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 sessions [...]

Event Report: Nokia ‘Comes With Music’ Launch (London)

Well I’m going to begin this post with some key words from will.I.am of the Black Eyed Peas who made the following statement at yesterday’s Nokia  “Comes with Music” launch; “music should some times be given away for free. Music has and can create movements”. He did not open the Comes with Music Launch but [...]