mobile music in news
Home servers latest trend to sweep market?
News Soon, the 500GB hard drive that comes as standard on most home computers today won't even be big enough to store and organise the amount of digital music, video and photography that users are accumulating as part of the emerging "terabyte lifestyle". [21 Jul 2008]
BlackBerry ready to burst into new pastures
News RIM has peppered its smart phones, already popular with executives, with video cameras and music players to lure more retail customers, and now about 40 per cent of its 16 million users are either small and medium businesses or consumers. [16 Jul 2008]
Mobile payments to hit $300bn by 2013
News The gross transaction value of payments made via mobiles for digital goods, such as music, tickets and games, and physical items such as books, will exceed $300bn per year globally by 2013, according to the report. [01 Jul 2008]
'Hyperconnected' world grabs mobile over wallet
News More than one-third of workers would choose their mobile phone over their wallet, keys, laptop or digital music player if they had to leave the house for 24 hours and could take only one item, a new survey has found. [14 May 2008]
Brits want ASBOs for rude mobile users
News Music blaring out of mobiles and conversations so loud that everyone in the train carriage is forced to listen are just two of the mobile habits that are getting on the UK's wick. A survey of more than 2,000 UK adults found the top five pet hates... [09 May 2008]
Cool tech gets down with the kids
News In this respect, Jones said cyber crime can be a barometer of social dissatisfaction - pointing to illegal music downloads as an example of younger generations' mass dissatisfaction with restrictive digital distribution models. [23 Apr 2008]
'iPhone effect' ripples through smart phone market
News The company predicts that by 2011, more than half of all mobile phones could be considered music phones as they will feature music codec functionality (such as MP3 or AAC) and a memory slot which allows users to carry a personal music library. [25 Mar 2008]
Microsoft unveils web tool betas
News If they're playing with an online music application, they need to be able to unplug and be mobile. Coming soon after the company's recent bid for Yahoo, Microsoft says these product enhancements will bridge the developer-to-designer workflow gap... [09 Mar 2008]
Poll: And the next killer app for mobiles is...
News Surprisingly the poll stuck a pin in the bubble that has been swelling around mobile music. The other options listed in the poll were: video/TV, music, games, email, access to corporate IT apps and social networking. [04 Mar 2008]
Vodafone CEO warns of Apple, Google threat
News In his keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona today, Sarin said: "We must as an industry learn to both partner and compete with these new players because our customers want to experience entertainment such as music... [12 Feb 2008]
Poll: MP3 player king of commuter gadgets
News The latest silicon.com poll found 31 per cent of respondents feel listening to their music MP3s is the best way to get though the journey to work. Less surprisingly was that 18 per cent of people said they use their mobile phone on the commute... [08 Feb 2008]
Dell sees the future - and it's mini!
News You also have the iPod, which is primarily for music, whereas a notebook can run your Windows applications, connect to the internet and it's a pretty efficient tool. Dell recently quashed rumours it would buy mobile company Motorola and make a move... [08 Feb 2008]
Apple fattens its Touch and iPhone dials in more gigs
News And the iPod Touch can also store more music and videos now, with 32GB of capacity for $499. The release of that software really changed the iPod Touch into a new type of device, Joswiak said, and Apple is now playing up the iPod Touch as a "wi-fi... [05 Feb 2008]
Mac sales set Apple 'on fire'
News The company thinks the iPod Touch really belongs in a different category than the broader music player market, saying the iPod Touch has a chance to "become the first mainstream mobile wi-fi platform". [23 Jan 2008]
Bill Gates sings at CES for one last time
News In the more near-term realm, Microsoft said Samsung will start offering an adapter that lets its flatscreen TVs act as Media Center extenders, which lets the TVs show videos, pictures, and music stored on a Vista PC in another room. [07 Jan 2008]
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