December 3, 2007
Instant music with mobile phone downloads
Radio listeners will be able to instantly buy the songs they hear by pressing a few buttons on their mobile phone, thanks to a new service, called Cliq. The Telelgraph reports.
"Customers will need to load Cliq software on to their phones. It will then deliver, in text form, a list of the last five songs played by each participating radio station.
To buy a song, the customer will click on the selected track and it will download to their PC. Each song costs £1.25.
Listeners do not need a radio player on their mobile phone to use the service. The phone can function as a remote control to buy songs heard on a car or kitchen radio.
From next year, Cliq, developed by independent radio production company UBC Media Group, will be pre-installed on digital radios. UBC has struck at deal with Pure, which makes 40 per cent of digital sets sold in the UK.
...The technology will work on 85 per cent of handsets released in the past 18 months, but only on computers which use Windows software."
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