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Archives for June 2009
June 30, 2009President Interrupted By 'Duck Ringtone' During SpeechObama to the press corps: "Where do you guys get these ringtones by the way? [via Wonkette]
June 29, 2009British music boss: we should have embraced Napster
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June 27, 2009Sales Are Strong for Michael Jackson’s Music
June 26, 2009Verizon To Refund Millions For Unwanted Ring TonesAs part of an agreement with Florida's Attorney General, Verizon and Alltel (now part of Verizon) will have to deliver roughly $30 million in refunds to consumers for ringtones and other services that customers either didn't want or didn't understand they signed up for. According to a statement by Attorney General Bill McCollum, Verizon is also required to adopt new guidelines preventing customers from getting snookered by such promotions in the future. [via Broadband]
June 25, 2009Shazam Now Tweets, Maps Your Music Journeys
The Shazam app for iPhone - that listens to songs playing out loud, telling you its name and artist - has gotten an update and allows you to send electronic postcards to friends, as well as sending tagged songs to Twitter. You can also view your tags on a map and see your musical journey unfold by location [via Gizmodo]
June 24, 2009ASCAP and Copyright DoublespeakJust a few days ago, the EFF pointed out that ASCAP is arguing in federal court that every time your musical ringtone rings in public, you're violating copyright law by "publicly performing" it without a license. Now, reports the EFF in a follow up article:
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June 23, 2009Damages of $1.9 million could backfire on music industryThe recording industry secured a resounding victory last week when a Minneapolis jury awarded the four major labels $1.92 million in damages after unanimously finding that a 32-year-old mother had willfully infringed on their copyrights by downloading and sharing 24 songs on the Kazaa peer-to-peer network. Reuters reports.
June 20, 2009ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings
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June 19, 2009Music Labels Win $2 Million in Web CaseThe Universal Music Group, owned by Vivendi, and other record labels were awarded $1.92 million on Thursday in the retrial of a Minnesota woman accused of swapping music over the Kazaa Internet service. Bloomberg reports.
June 18, 2009Ringtone sales fall blamed on music downloads
Sales of mobile phone ringtones have collapsed in Australia over the past two years according to a new report from business consultants. News.com.au reports.
Research Labs intros Ringer 1.0 iPhone ringtones software
Users can choose any non-protected file from their iTunes library or any media file on their system that can be opened by QuickTime - MP3, AAC, MOV, MP4, M4V - and turn it into a ringtone. [via MacWorld]
June 16, 2009Universal Music and Virgin Reach a Download Deal
June 15, 2009SingTel launches music service for mobile phones
[via Reuters]
June 10, 2009Universal Music contracts Tapulous for iPhone games
Universal Music has contracted Tapulous to develop iPhone apps based on the label's most popular groups or artists, according to mocoNews via Macnn.
Relateld: - Record labels eye mobile music games
June 7, 2009Palm Pre's Zen ringtones
June 5, 2009Bing TonesTo further publicize Microsoft's Bing search engine, the company is offering branded ringtones for your cell phone called, you got it, BingTones. [via MalekTips]
Judge Sotomayor-themed ringtonesThe mobile music site mSpot has come up with the perfect playlist in honor of Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment to the Supreme Court. mSpot says, "the beauty of these ringtones is that mSpot.com allows you to edit up to 30 seconds of your favorite law-abiding tone – you don’t have to download what the carrier pre-selected." [Politico.com via Infrastructure]
June 4, 2009Please Hold
Next time when you are enjoying a conversation with your friend and have to put them on hold. Open up Please Hold and play on of the on-hold song to let them know that you are still there but not really.
June 3, 2009mSpot Reaches 6 Million Mobile Users
June 2, 2009Beatles come together for premier of Video Game
June 1, 2009AT&T offers a free Dave Matthews Band song
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