Sony Ericsson's new but old PlayNow feature is being completed. Deals with 10 major record labels were announced, adding over five million new, and mostly DRM-free, tracks to the PlayNow arena catalog. Sony Ericsson makes deals with 10 major record labels — including Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, EMI, The Orchard, IODA, The PocketGroup, Hungama, X5 Music, Bonnier Amigo, and VidZone.

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on January 31st, 2008 1 Comment »

Finally, in CES Nokia announced its service regarding online service application. Christened as Ovi, which is Finnish of "door", is new suite of applications, allowing user to experience some excellent functionality on the mobile web. A few of the applications include things like Nokia Maps or access to the N-Gage gaming market, but the emphasis on Ovi lies within Nokia's Ovi music store.

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on January 16th, 2008 2 Comments »

For expanding MOTOMUSIC campaign, Motorola acquired Singapore based music download site, Soundbuzz. The price tag for this transaction is not disclosed. The acquisition, which is subject to customary conditions, is expected to close in the first quarter of 2008.

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on January 8th, 2008 No Comments »

As the Sony Ericsson W960 been available in the market, people may need guidance for using brand new Walkman 3.0, especially navigate it with stylus. User can set rating of the music played or changing visual background. We can even play in Time Machine mode, means that the playlist can be selected from certain period of time. Source: Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on December 19th, 2007 No Comments »

Korean manufacturer, LG, launched 2 new phones. Both are categorized as music phones. The first one is Rhapsody LB3300. Another sliding phone, it has touch wheel for music navigation, music lyrics playback capability, and has a special Bluetooth headset set-up, that allows two persons to listen to music simultaneously.

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on December 14th, 2007 3 Comments »

Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Multimedia, Nokia before the Nokia World conference in Amsterdam today. It's really a big surprise to know that Nokia announce the new service with the revolutionary way. After becoming the biggest camera, GPS, MP3 maker, Nokia seems will became the biggest online music store soon! At the annual Nokia World conference today di Amsterdam today, Nokia announced Nokia Comes With Music, a revolutionary program that enables people to buy a Nokia device with a year of unlimited access to millions of tracks from a range of great artists - past, present and future.

Posted by Budi Putra on December 4th, 2007 No Comments »

TiVo subscribers can search for music directly from their TiVo box and play anything from Rhapsody's music catalog, which currently contains more than four million songs.

Posted by Budi Putra on October 10th, 2007 No Comments »

The Dominant Apple iTunes music store could not walk alone anymore. Amazon has launched a beta version of its Amazon MP3 music download store. This service has over 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists represented by over 20,000 major and independent labels including EMI and Universal Music. These songs can be played on all existing music hardware devices including the iPod, Zune, iRiver, RAZR, NSeries, etc. According to Ed Burnette, the Amazon's music is free from digital rights management (DRM) restrictions, so you can burn it to CD, copy it to your other computers, etc. without having to worry about the content expiring or otherwise becoming unusable in the future. Source

Posted by Budi Putra on September 26th, 2007 No Comments »