Satellite radio broadcaster Sirius will supply music to US operator Sprint beginning later this year. The company’s rival, XM, has previously said it’s in similar talks with operators, but Sirius was able to win this round in the battle of the press releases, even though it’s offering no details until “later this year.” My previous [...]
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Ringtones Mk II: Videos
by on 08. Jun, 2005 in Content Providers
Digital Music news says music-industry execs tried to answer the deep question “What will be the next killer app to hit the music space?” at a panel Wednesday in Los Angeles. The best they could come up with: well, uh, ringtones are pretty sweet, so people will probably want to buy music videos for their [...]
Melodeo Expands Catalog With EMI Deal
by on 31. May, 2005 in Content Providers
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 [...]
Loose Ends
by on 25. Apr, 2005 in Content Providers, DRM, Ringtones, Stats
Bits and pieces from last week, mostly: – US mobile content rating system in the works: The trade group of US mobile operators wants to define a standardized content rating and filtering system, not only to make it that much more difficult for kids to see porn, but to also pave the way for them [...]
Loose Ends
by on 15. Apr, 2005 in Content Providers, Services, Stats
Some more bits and pieces from this week: – Ministry of Sound to supply content to two European carriers (thanks, DMEurope): The dance music giant says it will supply ringtones, videos, wallpaper and editorial content to T-Mobile and Orange in the Netherlands. – American youth are the world’s top mobile spenders (thanks, MocoNews): Americans under [...]
Clear Channel: We Can Suck On Mobile, Too!
by on 14. Apr, 2005 in Content Providers
Everybody’s favorite radio broadcaster says it will offer audio clips over US mobile networks by the end of the year — but it won’t be the company’s corporate-driven musical playlists, but “snippets of its originally produced radio programs and local weather and traffic information,” Reuters says. So the mindless babble that turns people off broadcast [...]
iTunes Phone Delay — The Plot Thickens
by on 28. Mar, 2005 in Content Providers
There’s not really anything too new in this AP story about the delay of Motorola’s iTunes phone that hasn’t been covered before, bar one significant new development (that I guess really shouldn’t be too surprising): some major content providers — including Disney — are so scared of file-sharing they won’t let operators deliver content to [...]
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