KDDI to offer music downloads for mobile phones
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KDDI, Japan's second largest telecoms group, on Wednesday announced that its mobile arm, au, would launch the world's first service offering music downloads directly onto mobile phones.
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Looking to expand its offerings to European consumers, Warner Music International and Telefon AB Ericsson said Wednesday they plan to start distributing some of the label's artists music via mobile phone in Europe.
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Vodaphone, the biggest cell phone company in the world, has launched a music download service for mobile phones. [Broadband Blog]
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(InfoWorld) - Web 2.0 is coming to mobile phones, according to Nokia, which has launched a service that allows Java-enabled phone users to choose widgets, or small applications, that can be displayed on their phones. WidSets, introduced on Tuesday, is a free offering that users can set up on theÂ WidSets Web site. On the site, customers can choose from many different widgets that will be displayed on their phones. Widgets usually reside on a desktop and receive information, such as data delivered via RSS (Really Simple Syndication). For example, a Google News widget can appear as a small icon, and when users click on the icon, they can see the latest headlines that appear on the Google News Web site. Widgets are considered Web 2.0 applications because they offer an interactive and customizable service different from more static Web sites. After a new user signs up, the WidSets site sends an application via text message to the user's phone. Users must run the WidSets application and stay connected to the Internet to see the widgets and to allow the widgets to be updated with new content. The WidSets Web site is designed to support community input so users can browse for useful widgets based on community rankings. The service is free for phone users, although they'll pay associated costs to their mobile operators for data download. For now, Nokia doesn't have a way to make money from the offering but in the future the service could support advertising or Nokia could sell premium content, said Tom Henriksson, director of Nokia's emerging business unit. WidSets isn't the first widget offering for mobile phones. Opera Software ASA supports widgets on its mobile browsers. Henriksson praised the Opera offering as a great option but said that WidSets is designed to make using widgets on mobile phones easy. Nokia has increasingly begun offering different types of services like this one that could compete with content services from operators. But Henriksson says that offerings like WidSets benefit everyone in the market. "We think these help data services in general take off. Then everybody wins," he said.
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A mobile music service that enables users to download music to many cell phones has been launched by a British startup.
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Nokia, the world&#39;s leading maker of mobile phones, unveiled on Wednesday a new digital music shop designed to loosen the grip of Apple&#39;s iTunes on downloads.
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By ALEX VEIGA LOS ANGELES - Carlos Gomez could be the recording industry's ideal mobile music customer. His phone is his music player of choice and he spends about $100 a month buying songs for it - often on impulse after hearing a tune on his car radio.
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.   005930.KS on Friday said it plans to introduce a line of   digital music players and a download service, under an   agreement with privately held media provider MusicNet.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Dec. 18--TOKYO -- KDDI Corp. resumed acceptance Monday morning of  customer applications to switch mobile phone service providers to and from its  "au" service after fixing a computer malfunction that broke out Sunday  evening, KDDI officials said.
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Reg review Mobile phone styling comes to the MP3 world
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Mobile operator teams with European record label for service that lets consumers watch music videos on cell phones.
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Motorola will acquire online music store Soundbuzz in a bid to expand its mobile music offerings in Asia, the company said Monday.&quot;Soundbuzz will become part of the Motorola entertainment family,&quot; said Ian Chapman-Banks, vice president of marketing at Motorola Asia-Pacific&#39;s mobile devices unit, at a press conference in Singapore.Terms of the deal, which is expected to close during the current quarter, were not disclosed.Motorola hopes the acquisition of privately held Soundbuzz will make it the top online music seller in Asia, Chapman-Banks said, citing Soundbuzz&#39;s existing relationships with recording companies as well as mobile operators in India, Australia, Singapore, and other countries in Asia.The Soundbuzz acquisition will complement&#160;Motorola&#39;s own mobile music service, called MotoMusic, which is available in China, Chapman-Banks said.For its part, Soundbuzz is counting on Motorola&#39;s backing to expand its reach in Asia. &quot;Through the resources we&#39;re going to have access to, it&#39;s going to help us expand our offerings,&quot; said Sudhanshu Sarronwala, Soundbuzz&#39;s CEO, without disclosing details of the company&#39;s plans.Soundbuzz offers mobile downloads based on OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) DRM (digital rights management) technology. An online music store for PCs operated by the company offers music downloads based on DRM technology developed by Microsoft.The use of OMA DRM for mobile downloads, such as ringtones and ringback tones, means Soundbuzz&#39;s mobile download service will continue to support handsets made by a variety of companies, not just Motorola, Sarronwala said.Both the PC music store and the mobile-download service will continue to operate as usual following the Motorola acquisition, Sarronwala said.
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Even before Apple Inc.&#39;s much anticipated iPhone hits the shelves later this month, users of many different kinds of phones can listen to their iTunes music, via a new service from Seattle company Melodeo Inc.
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By MARK PRIGG  A SERVICE for downloading songs on to mobile phones that experts say could rival that of Apple's iTunes Music Store was launched today.
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Following todayâs launch of Robbie Williams Greatest Hits album, digital music lovers or more importantly in this case mobile phone users will be able to buy the new album from Carphone Warehouse following a deal with EMI.
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LG Electronics  will start  to sell mobile phones in few months time giving consumers full  access to free music via Omnifone's MusicStation download  service, UK-based Omnifone said on Tuesday.
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BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA -- South Korean mobile operator SK Telecom Co. Ltd. previewed a file-sharing application for cell phones this week that will let users swap files, including ring tones, music and videos over its 3G (third-generation) network.