Consumers want an iPod phone that will play any song, anytime, anywhere. Just four little problems: the cell carriers, the record labels, the handset makers, and Apple itself. The inside story of why the ROKR went wrong.* (*And what it will take to make a truly rocking music phone.)
Pitch is the latest firm to launch a social networking site for mobile phones as content companies battle for position ahead of the launch of MySpace Lite.
PeerBox™ is a peer-to-peer file sharing service for the mobile devices. PeerBox™ allows searching for music, video and pictures in open P2P networks, downloading the files onto the phone and sharing the files with other users.
Mercora Inc., which distributes software for webcasting music, is making a bid for the bourgeoning mobile music market with a new application that enables users of select wireless devices to listen to tracks stored on PCs or other users' computers.
Sony Corp.'s latest effort to capture the hearts, minds and money of teens and twentysomethings is a Web browser, messaging program, wireless phone and digital music player all rolled into a handheld gadget that goes by the name Mylo.
A really unnecessarily complicated way to stream from your iTunes library to your mobile phone wherever you happen to be. Clever and pointless - but challenging the rights protection and a pointer to possible future applications...
Pay downloads and streams to mobiles. Mine's pretty good, but it only fits about 5 songs on it and the supplied earbuds are crap. They're going to have to improve at the hardware end. The iPod's safe for now...