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Get Ready For Another Streaming Music Service: The Ad-Free Rara.com

Dec 13, 2011 5:22 AM

Spotify and Pandora (NYSE: P) may be the music brands people think of today when it comes to streaming services. But with only five million consumers using services like these today, there is clearly an opportunity for another player to emerge to try to pick up more. Enter a new…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Media & Publishing, Radio, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iTunes, Facebook, Google, Android, YouTube, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Samsung, Sony, Spotify, Countries, Europe, UK, Asia, China, omnifone, rara

RIM Breaks Social Ground With Its New BBM Music Service

Aug 25, 2011 6:31 AM

It’s taken a little while, but it looks like RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) might have finally woken up and smelled the coffee in the social media world and started to leverage some of the power it’s already established through one of its most viral products, BlackBerry Messenger.

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Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Social Media, Companies, RIM, BlackBerry, Sony, Vodafone, Countries, Europe, UK, Canada, omnifone

Nokia Stumbled, But Mobile Music Services Are Still Gaining Ground

Jan 21, 2011 7:13 AM

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have shuttered its unlimited music service in all but six of the 33 markets where it was operational, with low subscriber traction as one of the main reasons for the closure. But judging by the number of mobile music services coming out this week—from the label…

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Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Companies, Nokia, Samsung, Sony, mobile roadie, mspot, muve, omnifone

Sony’s Qriocity Adds Music To Its Cloud Service

Dec 23, 2010 7:03 AM

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), which dominates legal digital music downloads, has (so far) stayed away from cloud-based music services. That has given competitors a chance to step up with their own offerings. The latest service comes to us from Sony (NYSE: SNE), who today announced it would add music to its…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Companies, Google, Android, Sony, Spotify, Vodafone, omnifone, qriocity, sony, sony internet tv

Updated: Omnifone Touting Music Subscription Service To ISPs; Will Power Sky’s Upcoming Service

Feb 16, 2009 2:09 PM

Update 2: Despite what we were told in an earlier update, we now understand that Omnifone’s new product will facilitate Sky’s new unlimited music download service, which will be ISP-agnostic. MusicStation Next Generation will provide the backend technology to Sky’s service but, despite having deals with each of the major…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Companies, News Corp., BSkyB, omnifone

@ MWC Interview: Rob Lewis, CEO, Omnifone: Freeing Mobile Music

Feb 17, 2008 3:34 PM

Omnifone’s MusicStation, a subscription mobile music service giving all-you-can-eat music for £1.99 a week, clocked up over 500,000 track downloads within 10 days of debuting on Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) late last year. But that version might be a drag for network-hopping pop fans, so Rob Lewis was in Barcelona touting…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Mobile, omnifone

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