HERE COME THE DROIDS

News broke on Monday that Android smartphones are staring to kick the shit out of RIM and Apple with new buyers. According to a Nielsen report, in 2010 Android-based phones accounted for 27% of the overall smartphone sales in the United States compared to iPhone sales that only accounted for 23%. And that includes the [...]

Oplayo Technology Out-smarted By Philippines based Operator SMART

This post has a bit of a personal angle as I used to work with the mobile solutions company known as Oplayo. Australian-based company SliceWireless purchased Oplayo from Nokia Siemens near the end of 2005. Oplayo’s core business is threefold; rich media content delivery and tracking platform, content aggregation and JAVA apps for mobile. The [...]

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 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 [...]

T-Mobile Launches Mobile Music Discovery in Conjunction with Last.FM, Shazam and Wikipedia

Yesterday saw the launch of T-Mobile’s ‘enhanced’ mobile music service. So what does this contain that makes it stand out from other key mobile music offerings currently in the marketplace today? In short – discovery. The new music service offers, in partnership with Last.fm, Shazam and Wikipedia , a host of dynamic music discovery tools [...]

MySpace launches Android application with Google phone

LONDON – according to Dan Leahul at Brand Republic, MySpace has created an Android application offering better access to its website to coincide with the UK release of the T-Mobile G1 Google phone today. Great news for us all to become myspace junkies much as I did when the first began using the facebook blackberry [...]

T-Mobile To Launch First Android Phone

Well, its the type of news we’ve all been waiting for.  A new mobile handset running a new mobile operating system and offering the next generation in mobile music services. In what’s shaping up to be some kind of Super-Month for mobile music (see recent Nokia and Sony Ericsson announcements), T-Mobile has confirmed the rumours and announced [...]

TMV Video Interview: Luke Magnuson, International Music Category Manager – T-Mobile

TMV interviews Luke Magnuson, International Music Category Manager for T-Mobile since 2005. He explains how T-Mobile’s music offering has grown, including the T-Mobile Juke-Box. Luke also discusses T-Mobile’s strong relationship with Sony Ericsson and the results of this and their ground-breaking deal with Robbie Williams and future deals of a similar nature. The future of [...]

London Calling Day 1 June 19th Report

Well yesterday (Thursday) The Music Void were very busy attending the London Calling music industry conference. Most of the day was spent video interviewing senior executives from the music industry and also mobile and digital space (watch this space for when the video interviews will be posted on The Music Void). I did however happen to catch two conference sessions. The first was a keynote from Martin Blomkvist at Sony Ericsson. The second was a panel following on from Martins keynote focusing on the future of mobile music.

Report on the Great Escape Festival & Conference, Brighton, 15th – 17th May 2008

Hot Flash: New models embracing fan participation prior to the recording of music are working!

This report will provide a brief overview of the music seminars organised by the consultancy group MusicAlly for the Great Escape Festival. I’ll also present a round up of the live music showcased over the weekend.