Industry News Archives

Research and Markets announced its new industry report "Ringtones: Past, Present and Future Volume 2". Volume 2 examines the future business models for the convergence of mobile and online music services.   Full Story

Sony Ericsson posted "Getting the hang of the music industry Part 2: Understanding codecs and bandwidth issues" focusing on various codecs common in mobile music.  Full Story

Yamaha-wireless recently released "Musician's Companion", a phone application including a chord reference, metronome, and pitch pipe.  Full Story

The London Philharmonia Orchestra has an interactive sound exhibit " PLAY.orchestra", enabling visitors to interact with a virtual orchestra, and receive a recording of their performance as a phone ringtone via Bluetooth.  Full Story

The Helix community announces that Novell will bundle RealPlayer for Linux w/WM and Helix Banshee in its new desktop operating system. In other news, Helix also released an update of Real and Helix DNA client for Firefox 1.5.   Full Story

According to an article at TechWeb Technology News, sales of music-enabled phones rose to 10 percent of all shipments in the second quarter of this year.  Full Story

The open source "Pocket Podcasts" client for Pocket PC or Smartphone recently was updated to support mobile RSS and video.  Full Story

The heavily promoted LG "Chocolate" music phone for Verizon is the first phone in the US market with a Flash based UI and will also support the Flash Lite 2.1 BREW extension available later this year.  Full Story

Sony announces its "mylo" communicator/entertainment device. Wi-Fi capable device with QWERTY keyboard and QVGA screen, supporting web browser, instant messaging,VoIP, MP3, ATRAC, WMA, JPEG and MPEG4 video.  Full Story

According to an article at Cellular News, monophonic and polyphonic ringtones have dropped to 12% of the market, down from 30% Q3 2005.  Full Story

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