US music behemoth WMG teams up with mobile phone group for song downloads (AFP)

Grok Headline matches for US music behemoth WMG teams up with mobile phone group for song downloads (AFP)

iTunes Music Store tops 25 million song
downloads

iTunes Music Store tops 25 million song
downloads 12/15/2003 09:21 AM
Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 25 million songs from its iTunes Music Store since it launched in April 2003...

Wal-Mart tests Internet music downloads,
for 88 cents a song

Wal-Mart tests Internet music downloads,
for 88 cents a song 12/19/2003 05:08 PM
AFP via Yahoo! Dec 19 2003 4:01PM ET

iTunes Music Store tops 20 million song
downloads

iTunes Music Store tops 20 million song
downloads 12/08/2003 09:54 PM
Peter Lowe, Apple's director of marketing for applications and services, said Monday that more than 20 million songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Music Store since it launched in April...

Music Group to Sue Students Over
Downloads (AP)

Music Group to Sue Students Over
Downloads (AP) 04/12/2005 11:50 AM
AP - The recording industry intends to sue hundreds of college students accused of illegally distributing music and movies across Internet2, the super-fast computer network connecting leading universities for researching the next generation of the Internet, industry officials said Tuesday.

Music group to sue students over
downloads

Music group to sue students over
downloads 04/12/2005 02:50 PM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 12 2005 6:45PM GMT

Music downloads on your mobile

Music downloads on your mobile 03/13/2003 10:26 AM

Japan's Fujitsu teams up with Alcatel in
3G mobile phone market in China

Japan's Fujitsu teams up with Alcatel in
3G mobile phone market in China 04/01/2005 10:33 PM
Servihoo.com Apr 2 2005 2:04AM GMT

Japan's Fujitsu teams up with Alcatel in
3G mobile phone market in China (AFP)

Japan's Fujitsu teams up with Alcatel in
3G mobile phone market in China (AFP) 04/01/2005 12:26 PM
AFP - Major Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu will join forces with French telecoms equipment maker Alcatel SA to build mobile networks for third-generation (3G) services in China, an official said.

British no-frills group to offer free
music downloads (AFP)

British no-frills group to offer free
music downloads (AFP) 06/16/2004 01:03 PM
AFP - EasyGroup, the holding company of no-frills British airline easyJet, announced plans to launch an online music store that allowed customers to download tunes for free.

British no-frills group to offer free
music downloads

British no-frills group to offer free
music downloads 06/16/2004 07:33 PM
Techzonez Jun 16 2004 11:20PM GMT

Motorola E398 Music Mobile Phone
Exclusive on T-Mobile

Motorola E398 Music Mobile Phone
Exclusive on T-Mobile 08/27/2004 01:23 PM
I4U Aug 26 2004 11:05AM GMT

Music On The Mobile Phone

Music On The Mobile Phone 05/06/2004 12:55 PM
Understanding the mobile music market these days seems a bit challenging. While the industry is surprised, but thrilled, that kids who won't pay for downloadable music online are shelling out much more money on snippets of songs for downloadable ringtones, it's unclear if that market can last. While the going is good, however, wireless carriers are starting to more actively push for "ringback" tones, which are what people hear when they call you and are waiting for you to pick up the phone (instead of the standard computerized ringing you normally hear through the phone). While, in the past, some have found this confusing (you don't expect to hear music when you call someone, you expect to hear "ring ring"), ringback tones are apparently tremendously successful in places like South Korea. Still, if you want to be even more confused, a new study found that most people have no interest in paying to download music to their phone - no matter how much it costs. It's not that they're against paying, as many would pay for other content on their phone, it's just that they don't want to pay for music. So, the question is whether or not this is consistent with reality? Are these people who say they won't pay for music on their phones not buying ringtones? Or do they somehow consider ringtones (and potentially ringback tones) different than "music," and therefore worth shelling out? Also, a single snapshot may not be useful. People may not want to buy ringtones until they see that all of their friends have done so already. Still, the large number of people who seem very against the idea of paying for music for their mobile phone might be a warning sing that things like ringtones and ringback tones are something of a fad that may not last.

European group to test inflight mobile
phone service

European group to test inflight mobile
phone service 09/10/2004 05:28 AM
Computer Weekly Sep 10 2004 10:14AM GMT

Defense Department official for altering
a contract to benefit mobile-phone group

Defense Department official for altering
a contract to benefit mobile-phone group 04/30/2004 01:58 AM
Iraq Cellular Project Leads to U.S. Inquiry .. Pentagon contracts .. people are dying

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FutureDJ Event Rocked by Mobile Phone
Application SSEYO miniMIXA, from Tao
Group

FutureDJ Event Rocked by Mobile Phone
Application SSEYO miniMIXA, from Tao
Group 08/14/2004 03:09 AM
SSEYO miniMIXA on Windows Mobile based Smartphone marks start of exciting new era for mobile music making [PRWEB Aug 14, 2004]

MS, Apple pitch music at mobile phone
makers

MS, Apple pitch music at mobile phone
makers 09/13/2004 07:07 AM
Opinion Deals with network operators make more sense

T-Mobile to battle iPod with music smart
phone

T-Mobile to battle iPod with music smart
phone 09/15/2004 07:57 AM
Nice handset, shame about the storage capacity

News: Ericsson, Napster team up for
mobile phone music

News: Ericsson, Napster team up for
mobile phone music 06/17/2005 04:34 PM
The world's biggest telecommunications equipment provider has teamed up with popular Internet music service Napster LLC to make it simpler for mobile phone operators to open up online music stores for their customers. The two companies have developed a music downloading system that operators can use to deliver full songs to their customers' mobile phones, Ericsson and Napster said Wednesday.

Microsoft to sing song of downloads

Microsoft to sing song of downloads 11/18/2003 04:49 AM
USA Today Nov 18 2003 4:14AM ET

Legal song downloads rise tenfold

Legal song downloads rise tenfold 08/21/2004 12:59 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Fri Aug 20, 11:05 am GMT

Study: Song downloads to hit a high note

Study: Song downloads to hit a high note 07/26/2004 02:14 PM
Sales will double this year and should grow to $1.7 billion in five years, JupiterResearch predicts.

Apple Announces 25 Million Song
Downloads

Apple Announces 25 Million Song
Downloads 12/17/2003 02:37 AM
Slashdot Dec 17 2003 2:21AM ET

Wal-Mart Launches Windows Media Song
Downloads (Reuters)

Wal-Mart Launches Windows Media Song
Downloads (Reuters) 09/02/2004 03:38 PM
Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched an online music store that works with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Player, the world's largest retailer said on Thursday.

Mobile Phone is a Day to Day Need for
Everyone to Stay Connected with Their
Loved One's. Mobile Phone Chargers from
BB-shopping Helps to Connect More to
Them

Mobile Phone is a Day to Day Need for
Everyone to Stay Connected with Their
Loved One's. Mobile Phone Chargers from
BB-shopping Helps to Connect More to
Them 02/05/2005 09:23 PM
BB-Shopping helps you buying best quality and long life Mobile Phone Chargers for dufferent Models and Variants of Mobiles. [PRWEB Feb 3, 2005]

New PC-software supports consumers of
music downloads in disadvantages of
music industry

New PC-software supports consumers of
music downloads in disadvantages of
music industry 09/13/2004 03:06 AM
German company RapidSolution Software has released the Windows software Tunebite. Music tracks purchased from the Internet are copy-protected and involve important restrictions for many users when they are played back. With the option to re-record them while they are played, Tunebite legally provides the user with new music files without restrictions. This ensures that music bought from Apple iTunes, Sony Connect, AOL or other music platforms in the Internet can be played back and listened to from everywhere. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Trade group: pay, don't sue, the song
swappers

Trade group: pay, don't sue, the song
swappers 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
From the um-what-department comes a novel, interesting, and totally clued-out suggestion from the Distributed Computing Industry Association: pay the song swappers for their services as distributors.

TI teams to hang up cell phone crackers

TI teams to hang up cell phone crackers 06/29/2004 05:06 PM
Texas Instruments and ARM are "burying the security into the hardware," following the emergence of the first virus to target cell phones.

Group Wants to Induce Downloads

Group Wants to Induce Downloads 08/04/2004 04:43 AM
A coalition of techies and free-speech advocates distributes videos of Senate hearings about the Induce Act to prove two points: that the law would be very damaging to the tech industry, and that peer-to-peer networks can serve the public. By Xeni Jardin.

HP teams with Apple to create music
player

HP teams with Apple to create music
player 01/08/2004 07:29 PM
Apple and HP have announced a partnership for a "HP-branded digital music player based on Apple's iPod." Part of the deal is that iTunes will be shipped on every HP computer (with an icon on the desktop), which should boost sales from the iTunes Music Store. Look for the new player this summer. Thoughts?

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The Chinese mobile phone industry's
shipment volume rose 64.2% year on year
to reach approximately 65.2 million
units as the PAS mobile phone shipment
broke a record high

The Chinese mobile phone industry's
shipment volume rose 64.2% year on year
to reach approximately 65.2 million
units as the PAS mobile phone shipment
broke a record high 06/11/2004 03:15 AM
Research and Markets are delighted to announce the addition of The Chinese Mobile Phone Industry, 1Q 2004 and Beyond to their offering [PRWEB Jun 11, 2004]

Music-ABC-Song-0.01

Music-ABC-Song-0.01 07/05/2004 05:31 PM

Music going for a song on the Internet

Music going for a song on the Internet 12/12/2003 03:17 AM
Washington Times Dec 12 2003 1:51AM ET

Colligo Networks to Make Mobile Teams
More Productive

Colligo Networks to Make Mobile Teams
More Productive 05/10/2004 11:09 PM
BC Technology May 11 2004 3:36AM GMT

Test Drive | Music for a song

Test Drive | Music for a song 11/02/2003 03:12 PM
Philadelphia Inquirer Nov 2 2003 2:02PM ET

Michael Song on Chinese music industry

Michael Song on Chinese music industry 09/10/2004 12:01 AM

We just had a very interesting meeting with Michael Song, managing director of Taihe Rye Music. He is Chinese, but spent six years at Texas A&M and returned to China in 1996 to work in the budding music scene in China. He is in the agency business and represents the #1 male musician in China.

He explained that the legal music CD business in China is about 5%. In other words, 95% of the CDs on the market are pirate copies. He said that it was the teenagers who were passionate about the artists and liked to hang out in the record shops that tended to buy the legal CDs. Even in the top artists, CD sales only represented 30% or so of their income, while less known musicians actually lost money on CDs. The CDs are important, however, as a marketing and promotion vehicle.

Because the mass media is state owned, it is difficult to use the mass media for promoting artists. For this reason, it appears that the successful artists in China tend to be more talented, singer songwriters who tend to be popular longer compared to artists in markets such as Hong Kong and Taiwan where pop idol style artists are highly promoted and often lack talent or long term potential.

He told us that his artists got revenue share deals with percentages a bit worse than their counterparts in the US, but much better than in Japan. Most of the revenue comes from advertising/endorsements and concerts, but he is aggressively working on new business models involving alternative media such as the Internet and mobile devices.

My "take-away" was that in a market where the record industry basically doesn't function, artists and agents are going to be pushing the cutting edge of music business models and might in fact discover the post DRM/RIAA business model before Hollywood does. Obviously, it helps to have a huge growing market such as China, but I think it would make sense for artists and music industry people to keep an eye on China for breakthroughs in the music business.

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Labels seek end to 99c music per song
download

Labels seek end to 99c music per song
download 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
Too cheap

Music industry suing 532 song swappers

Music industry suing 532 song swappers 01/26/2004 01:52 PM
CNN Jan 26 2004 5:33PM GMT

Survey: 1,000-song music players the
right size

Survey: 1,000-song music players the
right size 04/22/2004 04:04 PM
According to a survey by Jupiter Research, 1,000 songs (about the capacity of Apple's iPod mini) is the right size for a portable digital music player...

Legal music downloads

Legal music downloads 06/18/2004 01:11 PM
Personal Computer World Jun 18 2004 5:35PM GMT
Grok Description matches for US music behemoth WMG teams up with mobile phone group for song downloads (AFP)
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US music behemoth WMG teams up with mobile phone group for song downloads (AFP)

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