A research firm says the mobile music market with be worth more than $9 billion by 2009. It expects ringtones to make up just over half of this, but it’s hard to think that ringtones will be a $4.8 billion business in 2009, given the proliferation of DIY ringtone tools and the increasing use of [...]
Archive | March, 2005
Hello Moto?
No, Motorola still didn’t announce the iTunes phone at M3 in Miami last night. But the company did announce a couple of music-focused handsets, the E680i for Asian markets and the E725 for American EV-DO networks. The brief specs provided in the press release reinforce the notion that mobile-phone hardware is catching up to that [...]
Bundling Custom Ringtones
Atlantic Records UK says the new CD single from rapper Fabolous it released this week contains software that lets users choose any part of the song and download it to their mobile for use as a ringtune. Based on “MyTone” software from Bounce Technology, buyers put the CD in their computer, choose which part they [...]
On the road addiction
This one I had to try! I saw on textually.org that pokerroom.com had launched a fully interactive poker client for mobile phones. YAY! That’s got to be the best time killer since bejeweled. I fly off to their website and start looking for the application. After signing up and providing them with all personal information [...]
Digital Sales Boost Global Music Revenues
The global music-label trade body says that music sales worldwide were flat in 2004, the best year-on-year trend in five years. While sales of physical music products slipped, digital sales grew astronomically. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry still blames file-sharing for most of the industry’s woes, failing to realize the digital sales figures [...]
The decline of SMS
What is your connection to SMS? Why do you love it so? IÌve been doing a little research lately; IÌve been bugging people all around me with the question: Ïwhy do you love SMS?Ó. The top responses IÌve been getting are: – ItÌs instant (you immediately get updated when an SMS arrives) – ItÌs private [...]
New media for the Mobile
People that have been wondering what ever happened to Macromedia Flash on Mobile Phones beware. After visiting Macromedia at 3GSM and CeBIT I downloaded the Flash Lite Player to my 6630 and started developing some content and was thrilled. ItÌs as easy as any Flash authoring and integrates nicely into the phone UI. Within minutes [...]
What do YOU think?
Nothing makes a little blogger’s heart go pitter-patter with excitement, more than when readers leave a flurry of witty, wise or even wanky comments on your blog. Or just comments really. This blog does get quite a few comments actually, but no where near the level that others do. Any ideas why? Must be something [...]
EasyMobile Sparks Price War
easyMobile’s entry as an MVNO into the UK market has marked a flurry of price cutting and cutting comment among rivals. Carphone Warehouse’s Fresh, their pre paid mobile service, has reduced costs further, following an initial cut last week. They’re now operating a 5p rate for all UK calls to any mobile or landline at [...]
Nokia Wireless Keyboard SU-8W and Samsung’s SGH-I300
Uber mobile phone user, Darla Mack has a review of the new wireless keyboard from Nokia on her blog. Check it out. What’s interesting to me is that this is a look at the future of the thing that used we used to call a mobile or cell phone. As our mobile devices become more [...]
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