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Archive for October, 2009

  • Blackberry Perfects Learning “Curve”

    Blackberry Perfects Learning “Curve”

    Mobile phones have come a long way indeed, starting out life as work necessities for quick and strategic business calls and arrangements and eventually becoming lifestyle items for the upper class. Today, however, mobile phones are everyone’s, and part of everyone’s lives as a result. Along with making the leap toward becoming items for people from all walks of life, mobile phones have become various things to their owners – entertainment centers, music and movie players, and even Internet surfing terminals. Mobile phone models have had a lot of evolving done over the years, and each new iteration includes new equipment and features to live out the various roles a mobile phone now plays.

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  • Rocking the iPhone App Store

    Rocking the iPhone App Store

    Ever since mobile phones became the popular personal item they are today, users have integrated them into their lives along with many other tech items that have become indispensable. As such, the mobile phones have become vital sources of entertainment and enjoyment, as well as central in reflecting their users’ tastes and personalities. This extends to tastes in movies, popular Hollywood icons, and music artists. The music industry has in fact always been an ideal partner for the mobile content industry, with the former providing the latter with a near-limitless font of material for promotion and use as well as continually shifting and changing material for entertainment and enjoyment.

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  • MocoSpace and Nellymoser Launch Mobile Music App

    MocoSpace and Nellymoser Launch Mobile Music App

    Mobile content has always been a strong performer in the commodities department, especially over the course of the last ten or so years where mobile phones have all but integrated themselves seamlessly into everyone’s lives. Once only status symbols for the moneyed and contact necessities for those in high-pressure, high-contact and long-distance occupations, mobile phones have become hot personal items that everyone uses for a variety of formal and informal purposes.

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  • Ruling Comes Down On Ringtone Royalties

    Ruling Comes Down On Ringtone Royalties

    The mobile media market has been relatively a strong one for quite some time. While sideloading and other customer-side practices make it somewhat easier and less expensive for users to create and install their own ringtones and other mobile media, there is still considerable convenience in subscribing to a relatively affordable paid download service to get your ringtones and full songs. To that end, many companies and providers have taken it upon themselves to find new and effective ways to make ringtones and other mobile media available to their users for a nominal fee. The competition has been fierce, but generally civil.

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  • Dell to sell Android smartphone in the US in 2010

    Dell to sell Android smartphone in the US in 2010

    The mobile market is still going strong, even as technology makes new and exciting developments and upgrades possible for reliable models and providers. The competition continues to heat up as partnerships and mergers change the mobile handset development and production landscape and make new models and marketing strategies possible, and fierce angling for new ways to cater to the necessary involved demographics continues to be seen in the marketplace.

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  • Rock Band to rock iPhone

    Rock Band to rock iPhone

    Mobile content and music marketing have gone hand in hand for the better part of the last decade, ever since increasingly swift and significant advances in technology joined with the times’ increasingly fast-paced lifestyle to make cell phones a personal item instead of the formal business versatility necessity they once were.

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  • Verizon and Rock Band Hit the Stage

    Verizon and Rock Band Hit the Stage

    The music scene has always been one for swift but iconic transformations and big moments, and it comes as no real surprise that it has consistently been as fast-moving and quick-changing as the everyday life that music spices up and makes lively. Indeed, everything that comes into contact with music and the music industry can hardly help but end up moving just as fast itself, creating and transforming trends and catapulting unknowns to stardom [and sometimes back again] all for the entertainment of a sometimes fanatical, sometimes fickle market base. The veritable merger with the mobile media biz in the previous decade has only increased the dimensions of the playing field, making even more new avenues of technology available for music to make its presence felt in different ways.

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  • Handsets for the Holidays from T-Mobile

    Handsets for the Holidays from T-Mobile

    Ever since cell phones made the leap from work necessity and international access item to an intensely personal and increasingly versatile customizable item, various approaches to providing and profiting from mobile content and mobile media have been developed. Allowing the users from various demographic groups to emphasize and embellish their personalities and styles with their mobile devices, customizable elements and content such as wallpapers, music files and ringtones make modern mobile devices exciting and almost indispensable for the modern user.

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  • mSpot lets you Make UR Tones

    mSpot lets you Make UR Tones

    Along with the emergence of the mobile phone as a personal item that goes beyond the traditional concept of owning a gadget to keep in touch with business or work contacts, mobile content has made a name for itself as a viable, marketable commodity. The customization and personalization potential inherent in the mobile phones themselves, already open to being extensions of their users’ personalities, is maximized further by the content that users select, copy and install. The combination of the mobile and music industry markets is a virtual no-brainer as well, allowing companies and carriers to maximize their users’ musical tastes in artists and styles to create a strong market for ringtones and music ordering.

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  • AT&T top launch TerreStar Genus in 2010

    AT&T top launch TerreStar Genus in 2010

    Ever since cell phones made the leap from formal, sometimes flashy business and long-distance necessity to consistently hot and popular personal item, and even beyond that to a blend of both, companies have been racing around the clock to put together units that are more and more flexible, dynamic and loaded with features that can keep up with their users’ ever-busy lifestyles. Whether or not some features are actually regularly used is actually increasingly becoming irrelevant, as the technology to integrate the newer hardware and make room for software is becoming affordable and feasible enough to not be as much of a factor as it used to be. As a result, phones now have still image and video cameras, multi-SIM card carriage capability, music players, and all manner of “smart” enhancements designed to maximize the cell phone usage experience.

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  • Excelsior! Vringo: Next Big Thing

    Excelsior! Vringo: Next Big Thing

    The mobile media market continues to enter new phases of development, even as analysts such as SNL Kagan suggest that sales have reached their peak and are starting to decline. Reinvention and innovation are the current name of the game, and companies are scrambling to find new and better ways to capitalize on users’ desire for personalization and customization. Tying up with the music industry from day one to produce ringtones and ringback tones of varying lengths and origins has been a beneficial move, and continues to be even as companies develop more user-friendly ways to make these available.

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