Thanks to some computer problems, I missed this last week, but it’s a great story on the impact of mobile music in the mature market of Japan. PostPlay reports on a J@pan Inc newsletter piece with details of how mobile music sales there — mainly ringtones — are more than making up for declining royalty [...]
Archive | May, 2005
Verizon, Clear Channel To Offer Concert Footage
US carrier Verizon Wireless and radio and concert behemoth Clear Channel say they’ll team up to offer concert footage on Verizon’s EV-DO “V CAST” service. What they’re calling the Encore Channel will show broadcasts from concerts (presumably at CC-owned venues) a couple days after the event for a week at a time. The press release [...]
Melodeo Expands Catalog With EMI Deal
Melodeo, one of the leading companies in the emerging mobile music download space, said today it’s inked a deal with EMI to make 200,000 of the label’s songs available to its mobile download customers.
Melodeo’s catalog now features over 500,000 songs with the EMI tracks in addition to those from Warner Music as well as a [...]
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BlogCritics Pick of the Week
BlogCritics is a great blogging resource for bloggers and blog readers. It aims to showcase the best blog writing on the web, giving bloggers a wider audience and giving readers a one-stop resource to discover new writers. It focuses on music, books, film, TV, video, politics and technology – or life the universe and everything, [...]
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School Girl “Hostage Phone”
I was chatting to a 13 year old daughter of one of my friends over the weekend. She goes to a boarding school not far from here, complete with Harry Potter style dormitories.
When they go off to bed, they have to place their mobile phones in a big, locked strong box to stop them smsing/phoning/playing [...]
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Personal Update
I’m never sure how much personal stuff to include here – some of you say you like it, but I think it can get terribly self-indulgent. So if you’re not interested in that kind of stuff, skip this, without further ado.
As you may know, I moved to Munich, Germany about a year ago for family [...]
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Political Bluejacking Rescues EU Constitution Humiliation
An interesting spin off of Sunday’s EU Referendum in France was that supporters of the “YES” vote were urged to campaign by Bluejacking (if you’re thinking “huh?” read this):
“If you have a Bluetooth-enabled mobile, you can ‘bluejack’ militantly until Sunday. Rename your mobile ‘vote yes’ and when you’re on public transport or in a public [...]
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Mobile Search Hots Up
Overture, the paid-search network, has announced several deals to take it into the hot space of mobile search. More deals and partnerships are expected soon.
Well, actually the announcement they’ve made is more an announcement that they’re going to make an announcement. They have signed up to provide paid-search for Yahoo’s WAP portal (well, since [...]
How to make friends on the telephone
As part of my occasional foray into the archive, I thought you might enjoy this from May last year:
ThereÌs a very amusing booklet from the 1940Ìs at Contact Sheet. ItÌs full of startlingly obvious advice about how to use the Telephone. Stuff like ÏBe sure of your numberÓ and if you choose to ignore this [...]
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We Want Mobile Music
Consulting firm, The Management Network Group has released a study about what youth and young adults want on their mobile phones.
While the emphasis of the report is to spin the results positively, if you look at it with a “half empty” focus, it’s a little worrying, in some respects.
For instance, 34% were interested in mobile [...]
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