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M-BUZZ – Sony Ericson New Music Service

Staff Editor, Sep 20th 2006 Discuss [0]

There is no doubt the success of iTunes gives the digital music industry a boost. Sony Ericson is planning to launch its own music services that will let users to purchase and download full song to phones. This service will be named M-BUZZ, and two models of Walkman Phones (The W850 and W950) will be the first models to work with this service. According to Reuters, M-Buzz will be using an enhanced PlayNow service and the Internet. No information on pricing yet. Sony Ericsson launches new music download service [via reuters]

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It’s Girls World too, so why should the boys have all the fun?

Michael Goldstein, Sep 19th 2006 Discuss [0]

This much anticipated direct to consumer site is fast-becoming a necessary online destination where the girls of the world can mix and mingle in a new online girls club hang-out with all the frills and frou frou trappings that stylish women adore and fashionistas demand. http://www.limelife.com

“We recognize the web’s important role in driving women’s awareness of mobile content,” said Kristin McDonnell, CEO, LimeLife Inc. “At Limelife women can discover and purchase mobile content, including a wide selection of fashion wallpapers, subscriptions to lifestyle text messages, and a variety of entertaining games.

According to a survey conducted by the company, 30% of women who have downloaded content to their phones learned about that content through the web, making it one of the top three channels for discovery. In addition, over 30% of women who haven’t downloaded mobile content say they cannot find any that appeals to them.

Focusing on women’s mobile lifestyles, LimeLife is looking to fill this void by helping female consumers access new and compelling ways to use their mobile phones.

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Turning mobile phones into handheld navigation systems

Michael Goldstein, Sep 18th 2006 Discuss [3]

Do you spend too much of your time in the car traveling from one appointment to another with MAPQUEST print outs in the passenger seat? Thank goodness MAPQUEST has launched a MUST-HAVE service extension to its already popular brand called MAPQUEST NAVIGATOR. http://www.mapquest.com/mobile/ In a nutshell, MAPQUEST NAVIGATOR is a Global Position System (GPS) enabled application that provides a seamless voice guided navigational experience, turn-by-turn directions, and moving maps – all while allowing the cell phone user to receive phone calls. Just like the more expensive in car navigation systems (priced between $600 and $2000), MAPQUEST NAVIGATOR downloads a large corridor of route information, so in the event you enter a bad cell reception area, the auto route is able to continue guidance and reroute once cell reception is reestablished. Read The Full Story

Free Music from SpiralFrog, What’s the catch?

Ewdison Then, Aug 30th 2006 Discuss [0]

Universal music is giving away free downloadable music from their entire catalogue by partnering up with SpiralFrog.com, a New York based company. However the downloaded musics will be protected with DRM. Many of legal music download services such as iTunes offers low cost music but not many offers music. According to TechCrunch they will also offer videos and other digital content. Now here is the part that might give some potential users a let down note, you will be required to login into your account at least once a month in order for your downloaded files to continue working. Why did they make you do that? Well, so that you help them generate revenue by seeing ads on their site. In a way I think that’s kind a fair, free music and I will only need to login once. Not many details at this moment, we’ll post more updates as they release more information. [via TechCrunch]