Openwave’s Acquisition of MusiWave: The Gory Details
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Motorola CEO: Apple “To Build a Smart Phone”
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Musings On Skype
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@ CTIA: Qpass To Launch Skype Ringtones
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Ericsson Signs North American Ringback Tone Agreement With EMI Music
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@ CTIA: Real’s Glaser; Warner’s Bronfman; Digital Chocolate’s Hawkins
Rafat’s posted a trio of posts with audio via our dedicated CTIA blog; check it out for the full rundown on the mega mobile marketplace. Raf… Read more »
Sprint-Nextel On Data Revenue
By James Quintana Pearce
Len Lauer, the Chief Operating Officer of Sprint Nextel, has predicted that “the average data contribution for the industry could grow to a… Read more »
Congress Asked To Stay Legislative Action Aimed At Online Piracy — For Now
Two panels urged senators at a hearing chaired by U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter that the Grokster decision doesn’t warrant immediate legislative a… Read more »
@ CTIA: Bronfman’s Keynote: It Is All About Mobile Music
By Rafat Ali
Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman was on the offensive today, going all ga ga over mobile music, at a keynote this morning at CTIA. He started… Read more »
“High-Def” Music Download Service MusicGiants Officially Launches With Top Labels, Windows DRM
In preview with EMI as the label for the last few months, the MusicGiants Network officially launched today. It’s for people who can tell th… Read more »
SanDisk Is A Mobile Distribution Channel
By James Quintana Pearce
The biggest news I came across at CTIA was SanDisk releasing some mobile content (sort of, we’ll come to that). Before last CTIA the memory… Read more »
Music Labels Are In Mediation With Baidu Over Alleged Copyright Violations
Baidu.com is back in court in China over copyright violation allegations. This time four major record companies — Universal, EMI, Warner, S… Read more »
MySpace.com Sponsors Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of The Stone Age Concert Tour
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Study: Internet Music Favored By Youth Over Radio Nearly 2-1
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Nokia Launches Music Phone
By Rafat Ali
Everyone wants to say they’re trumping Apple..anyway, Nokia has unveiled the Nokia 3250 music phone. The new Nokia phone is the first under… Read more »
Openwave Buys MusicWave For $121 Million
By Rafat Ali
The French mobile music service cashed out big time…I’ll have more details later…Openwave Systems , the mobile browser company, has boug… Read more »
MECCA: MTV Executive Keynote
By James Quintana Pearce
Van Toffler, president of MTV Networks music/film/logo group gave a keynote at MECCA…I tried recording it but he has the sort of deep, mel… Read more »
@ CTIA: Billboard Launched Mobile Product on Cingular
By Rafat Ali
Billboard has big hopes with this..it has launched its Billboard Mobile service on Cingular: it is an app with latest charts and people can… Read more »
@ MES: Thomas Hesse, Head of Digital Music, Sony BMG
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A chat with Thomas Hesse, on the mobile music market. Some of his points:
Cellphone will become the primary music device in the next two yea… Read more »
Indie Download Service EMusic Launches Online Music Mag
Indie download service eMusic is expanding the editorial content offered since last fall into eMusic Magazine, described as “a daily-updated… Read more »
@ CTIA: Mobile Research At MECCA
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First session of MECCA was a discussion on the state of mobile entertainment with Seamus McAteer from M:Metrics and Paul Leakas from Nielsen… Read more »
Warner, MTV In Global Mobile Music Video Pact
Warner Music Group and MTV Networks are announcing their “landmark global agreement” now. Turns out WMG is licensing music videos to MTVN fo… Read more »
MTV And Warner in Mobile Music Videos Deal
By Rafat Ali
This is an interesting use of music videos: MTV and Warner Music Group have announced a global licensing agreement for the use of music vide… Read more »
MTV & Warner Prepping For “Big Announcement” This Morning
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MTV and Warner Music Group is announcing something big this morning, or so they say…the two companies have a press conference at 10:30 AM… Read more »
BitTorrent Gets $8.75 Million Funding
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BitTorrent, the commercial spinoff from the P2P software with the same name, has raised $8.75 million in venture funding, reports PE Week Wi… Read more »
FasPay Mobile Technologies And DX3 Launch Ringtone Service
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US mobile content conversion specialists FasPay Mobile Technologies is to partner with leading European digital services provider DX3 Techno… Read more »
A Quick Rethink Over Mobile Music
By James Quintana Pearce
It has been argued by Steve Jobs and widely accepted by most people except carriers and record labels that selling full-track downloads to m… Read more »
Goldman Sachs Communacopia: Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Warner Music Group Chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. spent a good portion of his q-and-a session explaining how he is un-ringing bells, never an e… Read more »
Industry Moves: Mashboxx Appoints Former Pressplay CEO as, Well, CEO
By Rafat Ali
Mashboxx, the legal P2P service, has thought against keeping the firebrand founder Wayne Rosso as its CEO. Music industry veteran Mike Bebel… Read more »
Cingular To Launch Music Download Service Next Year
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Perhaps motivated by the less-than-lukewarm early reception to the iTunes-Motorola-Cingular phone, Cingular CEO has begun hyping up a mobile… Read more »
Masttones Brings Bollywood And Bhangra Content To US Cellphones
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There has been an overload of information on Indian mobile gaming and content market. Interestingly, Indian content is making waves on mobil… Read more »
Def Connect’s To Mobile For Hip-Hop
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AG Mobile and Def Jam Mobile have launched Def Connect, which will offer “six channels of exclusive, made-for-mobile video content including… Read more »
Response To The Jamster Moratorium
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Jamster has issued a response to the recent adjudication by the UK’s Advertising Standards Agency restricting Jamster ads until after 9pm. T… Read more »
@ DH: The Concert Network
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P2P Music Sites Closing Doors In Legal Fallout
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