Online music startup Bop.fm released an app for iOS Tuesday that represents its first major foray into the world of mobile music.…
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Meet ROK Mobile: It wants to be both your mobile carrier and your digital music service
The people behind Paul Mitchell hair products and Patron tequila are launching a mobile carrier. ROK Mobile will be a smartphone-centric virtual operator, but it's not focusing on data. It's focusing on music.…
Read MoreMobile’s newest star Songza is red hot with 1.15 Million iOS downloads in 10 days
Songza launched in 2007, and put to rest a year later. In 2011, it was reincarnated as a mobile music discovery service and a mobile app. By marrying algorithms with human curation, the service wants to challenge Pandora and others in battle for music-app supremacy.…
Read MoreSmule builds social music app empire by buying Khush
Smule, the successful iOS music app start-up behind Ocarina, Magic Piano and I am T-Pain, is buying fellow social music start-up Khush, of Songify fame, in a bid to take command of what it believes will be a fast-growing mobile musical expression market.…
Read MoreTuneIn Radio rises to the top among streaming music apps
Pandora went public,bit.ly/vI6vQC and Spotify successfully launched in the U.S. So which streaming music service tops them on smartphones? Try TuneIn Radio. Onavo, a mobile data management and compression service, has done some work to figure which are the most popular mobile music apps.…
Read MorePandora CTO: We jailbroke the iPhone, love HTML5
Pandora jailbroke an iPhone to get an early start on development for Apple's iOS platform, the company's CTO Tom Conrad revealed at Mobilize 2011 on Monday. These days, Conrad is equally excited about HTML5 and the impact it will have on connected devices.…
Read MoreHands on with Spotify for mobile devices
Spotify, one of the most popular music streaming services in Europe and other regions, today launched in the U.S., as expected. But mobile users will have to pay for the Premium plan, a $9.99 monthly subscription. What features do you get and is it worth it?…
Read MoreWho needs iTunes? HP TouchPad has HP Play
HP hasn't introduced the rumored music store and streaming service for its line of webOS devices, but it does have an application that currently syncs music to the HP TouchPad tablet and Veer smartphone. HP Play, for Windows and OS X, shows promise and works well.…
Read MoreRevealed: Spotify’s US launch dates, price plans
UPDATED: The buzz around European music streaming service Spotify's United States launch just keeps getting louder. Our sources reveal that Spotify's US launch will happen in mid-July and feature a tiered pricing plan. Spotify US may initially be invite-only, an anonymous report said.…
Read MoreShare your music with portable speakers for your iDevice
While you're outdoors this summer, you may want to share your music with those around you. There are lots of portable boom boxes, but here are a few unusual ways to turn your iPod or iPod touch into a music machine to share with friends.…
Read MoreShazam and Spotify Shackup — U.S. Spotify Launch Playing Next?
Discovering music with Shazam was always magical, but it gets even better today with Spotify integration on Android and iOS handsets. Shazam is used in 150 countries while Spotify is only available in a half-dozen, so does this mean Spotify availability is about to expand?…
Read MoreAs Always, Mobile Music Faces Uncertain Future
Mobile music has long failed to gain traction despite a tremendous amount of hype, but recent announcements about cloud-based services have reinvigorated the space. But as carriers and record labels should know, the only certainty in mobile music is that old business models don't apply.…
Read MoreMobile Music Keeps Humming As Music Industry Shrinks
If you’ve followed the music biz’s uncomfortable adaptation to the online age, you’ve probably heard this one before: One segment within the…
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