mobile music
Photos: Emerging tech from location-based services to social networking
Photo Here, we see a map-like visual representation of musicians and bands, showing which bands are similar in genre and style to your preferred music, pointing you in the direction of new music you might like. [09 Nov 2009]
Photos: Android marches onto even more smartphones
Photo Media content is also harvested from various sources - such as video sharing website YouTube and Sony Ericsson's PlayNow music service - and presented to the user on the device. It's two years since Google announced it... [06 Nov 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment It will be interesting to observe whether, in due course, illegal e-book file-sharing attracts the same levels of controversy and media attention as illegal music file-sharing. They are capable of storing thousands of... [27 Oct 2009]
iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
News Despite Apple rejecting some iPhone apps, it's approved the potential risk to its own business that is music service Spotify. From later on this year, the iPhone will be available on Orange, as well as Vodafone.iPhone... [06 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo With its latest version of its iPod Nano music player, Apple added the ability to take video shots for the first time. The phone, which will be available through T-Mobile in the US later this year,... [02 Oct 2009]
Daniel Ek
AS Profile Daniel Ek co-founded the Spotify on-demand music streaming service in 2006 with Martin Lorentzon but it has been over the past 12 months that it's really taken off. The UK-based company's name is a combination of spot... [29 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The turntable spins on
Comment Ten years ago a 19-year-old Shawn Fanning launched Napster and music file-sharing; and the property rights war has been raging ever since. The music industry has wasted millions on intellectual property... [24 Sep 2009]
Photos: Motorola's first Android device
Photo As far as music and video, the handset offers a built-in music and video player and also comes preloaded with the Amazon MP3 Store, a dedicated YouTube app, Shazam, Last.fm and Imeem. It will be the... [14 Sep 2009]
Motorola joins the Android Cliq with T-Mobile device
News Multimedia features come in the form of a five-megapixel camera with video recording capabilities and a built-in music and video player. The announcement was made by Motorola's co-CEO Sanjay Jha at the Mobilize 09... [11 Sep 2009]
Photos: Nokia and Sony Ericsson unveil latest phones, laptops and tablets
Photo Nokia World also saw the Finnish phone maker unveil this music phone, the X6. The touchscreen device, which runs on Symbian OS and comes with 32GB of internal memory, will be part of Nokia's Comes With... [03 Sep 2009]
Minority Report: Why Apple was smart to OK 'iTunes killer'
Comment It would also lead to a new model for mobile media devices needing to play the streamed music, lessening the reliance on device storage. Though Apple has rejected many iPhone apps that may threaten its... [03 Sep 2009]
Apple's iPhone wins rights to sell readymade ringtones in iTunes
News That was the first time mobile music registered an overall sales decline, according to Kagan. Apple has obtained the rights to offer readymade ringtones for the iPhone and the company is trying to have... [03 Sep 2009]
Nokia's new mobiles take aim at Facebooking music lovers
News Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, on Wednesday announced new phones loaded with more music features and better integration with Facebook, as well as pricing for its upcoming netbook. The... [03 Sep 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Apple iPhone
Cheat Sheet Sony Ericsson's music-playing Walkman phones debuted in 2005, for instance, while Nokia's flagship N95 - which launched a few months before the iPhone - included 3G, GPS, wi-fi, a five megapixel camera, multimedia... [02 Sep 2009]
For Mobile Content, Context Is King
White Paper Spend still more on the content and services themselves - everything from instant messaging and e-mail to location-based services and sophisticated mobile portals that enable people to decide when, where and how they... [30 Aug 2009]