mobile music: June 2008 Archives
Verizon Wireless and Rhapsody, the digital music service from RealNetworks and MTV Networks, launch V CAST Music with Rhapsody. Combining Verizon Wireless' over-the-air mobile music service with Rhapsody's desktop solution, V CAST Music with Rhapsody delivers unlimited monthly access to music on up to three Rhapsody-compatible mobile phones and players and online on multiple PCs and seb browsers
Customers who purchase music over-the-air are able to download the master copy of the songs or albums to their PCs free of digital rights management (DRM) software that restricts how and where music can be played.
When customers download the V CAST Music with Rhapsody Software to their PCs and sign up for the monthly subscription, they have the ultimate music management service, including:
- Unlimited subscription syncing with access to more than 5 million songs
- Creating and accessing playlists, viewing playlists of other users, including celebrities
- Burning, importing and converting CDs to play anywhere
- Managing an existing digital music collection for free and syncing it to their mobile phones
- Buying non-protected MP3s of songs on the PC for 99 cents per song
- Buying songs on the phone, over-the-air - get two copies of the song for just $1.99 (one is over-the-air, the second master copy is the file customers download onto their PCs)
Oxy Systems, Inc. (www.oxysys.com), a leader in the development of advanced platforms for mobile applications and services, today announced the Beta launch of the phling! MusicLounge Mobile Web App. This joins the phling! Phone App, a Java midlet application, in Oxy Systems' range of MusicLounge applications.
The phling! Mobile Web App lets a phling! subscriber stream music they already own to their mobile phone from their home PC as well as joining the global phling! community of mobile music lovers. phling! is the only mobile service that connects subscribers to the music they already own as well as to their circle of friends.
The phling! Mobile Web App is available free of charge for a limited time - register for the Beta at www.phling.com. To use the phling! Mobile Web App, users should sign up for an unlimited data plan from their mobile service provider.
Apple announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com). iTunes is the number one music retailer in the US* and features the largest music catalog with over eight million songs. Also, iTunes customers are now renting and purchasing over 50,000 movies every day, making iTunes the world's most popular online movie store.
iTunes features movies from all of the major movie studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Lionsgate and New Line Cinema. Users can rent movies and watch them on their Macs or PCs, all current generation iPods**, iPhoneTM and on a widescreen TV with Apple TV®. iTunes Store customers can also purchase new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios on the same day as their DVD release
