mobile music: March 2008 Archives
AT&T announced the immediate availability of two new music
applications — mSpot’s Make-UR-Tones and Remix — and plans to
significantly expand offerings for Napster Mobile over-the-air
downloads.
- Make-UR-Tones allows customers to customize ringtones by using their mobile phone.
- The Remix application gives customers
access to their PC-based music collections directly from their phone.
- Napster will debut this summer and allowing more AT&T customers tobe able to search a catalog of more than 5 million songs from their AT&T wireless phone,
The CEO of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Rolf Schmidt-Holt in an interview said that the company is developing an online music subscription service that would give users unlimited access to its music and be compatible with most digital music players.
The interivew was in the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
published Monday. No date was set for the service.
The Financial Times. reports that Apple is negotiating with music companies to offer an unlimited music plan for customers buying an iPhone or iPod.
It is estimated that users would pay up to $100 for unlimited access to music for the lifetime of the device, or a monthly fee of $7-$8 for a subscription.
Tokiva IM-To-Call service is available immediately on leading instant messaging systems, including MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL Messenger, and GTalk. Since beta launching the IM-To-Call service in January 2008, Tokiva is becoming the most popular IM buddy in the world, with tens of thousands users taking advantage of IM Tokiva on a daily basis.Without downloading any software, registered users receive an invitation to add Tokiva to their IM buddy lists, and simply IM Tokiva to call. Tokiva calls back to the user's land line or mobile phone, and immediately connects the user to the desired number.Tokiva claims users can save up to 90% of normal call costs, because the calls are carried by Tokiva's global VoIP network that has a footprint in over 185 countries.
Prices are available at their website homepage and do not include carrier charges for the phone use itself. A mobile to mobile from the US to UK is $0.193 per minute.
Do I Pay My Local Mobile Carrier to Use Tokiva?
Voice: Local voice minutes apply from your mobile carrier if you are calling from a mobile phone. You can take the advantage of free incoming call minutes offered by many mobile carriers.
Data: If you use Tokiva Mobile application to make the call, there is a small data charge for the wireless data packets sent to set up the call, in most cases around US $0.02. Tokiva uses less than 0.5 kilobytes for each call initiation, regardless of the call length.
