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Archive for October, 2009
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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. -
Acer Just About Marks the Spot with X-960
Mobile phones continue to evolve along the lines of personal items, continuing the transition from business necessity for making and receiving calls from one’s fellow executives (or, goodness forbid, the boss) to everyday items as extensions of one’s personality and style. Technology continues to improve in leaps and bounds, allowing manufacturers to integrate feature after feature into the mobile phones they crank out on a regular basis. Users eagerly snap this up, of course, maximizing each new feature and finding the best ways to use them to add to their mobile experience so as to truly make each of the new models worth their while. -
Google for Music? Music for Google?
The digital and mobile media game has heated up considerably in the last few years, what with mobile phones being s integrated as they are in modern day-to-day life. Mobile phones have made quite the jump, from business items that enabled executives and suits to place important calls at strategic times, to status symbols that enabled the rich to make their moneyed nature manifest in the eyes of others, to personal items that have become part of everyday life and communication. Alongside the mobile revolution has been mobile content, which has itself been advancing and moving forward alongside digital media in general. -
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. -
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. -
Acer’s new “Liquid” Asset
The ever-changing landscape of the mobile market necessitates shifts in approaches for mobile providers and phone designers as well. Fortunately technology continues to make great new things possible as new developments make it easier for these companies to put together more versatile, more interesting and more capable phones operating off of the latest platforms and with all of the bells and whistles one expects from a mobile phone of the modern age. Cameras, music players, internet connectivity and various other inclusions have become so commonplace as to be expected of newer phone models, and it’s no different for Acer’s new Liquid unit. -
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. -
A Challenge “Comes With Music”
Nokia announced a strong new way of entry into the music download game, attempting an approach similar to Apple’s ringtone-enabled and super-popular iTunes service with Comes With Music, a program launched as a tie-up between Nokia and music magnates the likes of Universal Music Group, Sony International, Warner Music Group and EMI, as well as many independent record labels. This project would put together an immense library of free music downloads for users buying Comes With Music edition phones, which they could download over a period of 12, 18 or 24 months depending on the plan that they bought their phone with. -
Nokia’s Comes With Music Takes Over
In the always tricky world of business, a company must absolutely manage to latch onto a viable commodity and find every possible way of maximizing its marketability. Mobile manufacturers are working around the clock to find new and exciting angles to take in putting together units that will supposedly sell well to various parts of their core demographic, and technology has helped them integrate new features and new mobile content into he units they produce. Even programs and applications are now part of the race, as Apple has merged mobile with media and music to produce the ringtone-enabled and selling iTunes 9 and Nokia has tried its hand at the same tack with Comes With Music. -
Mobile17: An Extra Ordinary Way to Personalize Your Ringtones
Mobile17.com is a website created by its founder Ben Guild at the age of seventeen. The founder says, “I started Mobile17 when I was just 17-years-old... hence the name, 'Mobile 17'… it began as an idea for a simple, web-based way to create your own ringtones and graphics... for free... without all that hassle.” -
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. -
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. -
Akon and Pente Mobile Make Mobile Music Together
The mobile media and music industries have been working hand in hand ever since cell phones transcended their original status as work-related necessities and planted their metaphorical feet firmly in the status of social and personal item, going from the stereotypically blocky and clunky old models to sleek, stylish and sophisticated ever-shrinking candy bars, flip panels and slide units that carry everything from personalized wallpapers to self-embellishing ringtones and music clips. -
Cellware – Share & Download Ringtones
Cellware is one of the newest Mobile Social Network site with a large selection of content for your phone. Membership is free. You can create your own media using their internet tools. You can share your created mobile content with other members of the site and earn money from your created content. -
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. -
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. -
Malaco and m-Wise Bring Pay-Per-Download Ringtones
The mobile content market continues to move forward, with users seeking more and more content to personalize and customize their mobile phone experience. Even as technology makes access to mobile content easier and more affordable, companies are working almost round the clock to come up with fresh ideas and approaches – and, of course, fresh content – for their avid followers to take and make use of on their own mobile phones. New websites, new artists, new styles and new deals between mobile carriers and service providers and record labels keep producing new ringtones and new mobile music content, all in the name of maximizing the opportunity to cater to demand. -
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. -
Vodafone and Warner to offer DRM-free mobile music
Mobile content has been big for quite some time as a marketable commodity, and this is no secret to companies who have managed to capitalize on the meshing of the mobile and music market bases. Indeed, mobile phones have gone from formal tech items used by businessmen in suits to close deals across the globe to personal items used by people from all walks of life to communicate with other people from all walks of life. The opportunity to customize and personalize one’s phone with ringtones that match one’s personality – and, taken a step further, with a music collection that does the same – has only made the mobile content market even hotter. -
T-Mobile ready to Cliq with Buyers
The state of the mobile phone industry has been in constant flux since its explosive transformation from business necessity tool to personal item, with sales coming in strong from both market thrusts and keeping the market viable. More and more new phone models are developed and released almost on a monthly bass as companies scramble to put together versatile, stylish and multi-functional units that can keep pace with their multitasking user base’s increasingly diverse and busy lifestyles. Various new hardware and software features are integrated into basic phone units on an ever-accelerating basis as the miniaturization of technology allows for smoother integration of complex items and increased data and OS storage capacity, making the many options more and more realistically applicable. -
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. -
Tonzr – Free MP3 Ringtones
Tonzr is a new small website which provides free access to millions of users online who want free ringtones without any memberships or attachments form the website. There are about millions and millions of MP3 ringtones or realtones available for download from the site. They have three easy steps to set your phone up with the ringtone you wan: 1. Search for artist or song. 2. Preview ringtones and 3. Click the title and send it to our phone. -
Palm’s Pre heading to O2 in October
September 24 arrived with an announcement from UK-based mobile carrier O2 concerning smartphone manufacturer Palm’s popular Pre unit. Starting October 16, the webOS-powered Pre will be offered to O2 customers in the UK. The Pre units will only be available through O2 and partners such as Phones4U and Carphone Warehouse. O2 Ireland will have the units available on that day as well, while O2 Germany will have theirs a few days ahead on October 13. This comes as a welcome bit of news for UK-based users. -
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.