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Articles tagged with: Mobile Music
Ringback Tones Worth $4.7 Billion in 2012
Ringback tones are on track to become the most attractive mobile content category by 2012, according to new market research from MultiMedia Intelligence. With worldwide revenue nearly tripling to $4.7 billion, ringback tones will fall just short of mobile gaming revenue in capturing the largest share of the mobile premium content market (not including mobile video and mobile TV). more
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Apple iPhone's Halo Effect Yet to Reach Software Developers
SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Sliding software prices have damped the halo effect many music and software companies expected from selling their products through Apple's iPhone software store. more
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Over 2bn Mobile Users to Buy Digital Goods With their Phones by 2013
A new analysis of the global mobile payments opportunity forecasts that 2.1 billion mobile subscribers will "pay by mobile" for digital goods downloaded to their mobile phones by 2013. Juniper Research defines digital goods as music (ringtones and full tracks), tickets, TV, user-generated content, infotainment and games - in fact any content bought by phone and delivered to the phone. more
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EU-5 mobile music retail revenues to exceed $1.4 billion in 2012
Europe's mobile music scene is more advanced than that in the US. While the UK is the biggest individual mobile music market in the EU-5, the other countries-France, Germany, Italy and Spain-are reporting sharp growth as well. eMarketer predicts that mobile music retail revenues in the EU-5 will reach over $1.4 billion by 2012, up from $267 million in 2007. more
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Three New Mobile Phones from Sony Ericsson
To coincide with the Walkman phone's third birthday, Sony Ericsson has unveiled three brand new mobile phones: the W902, W595 and W302, and seven new music accessories. more
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Growth of Mobile Content Services to Increase ARPUs for LatAm Operators
Mobile content services have been catching on fast in Latin America and were responsible for 3.1 percent of the total mobile telephony revenues in 2007. In the same year, the number of mobile content users reached 57.1 million or 31.1 percent of the total number of mobile subscribers. While mobile music continues to be the most in-demand service among end users, games and video will gradually gain in popularity. more
Related Tags: mobile-messaging, mobile-data, mobile-content, wap
Microsoft Expects 40% Market Share for Windows Mobile OS by 2012
Microsoft says that it expects its Windows Mobile operating system will be used in 40% of the smartphones sold in fiscal 2012. The claim was made by Eddie Wu, managing director of Microsoft ODM embedded devices, Asia. more
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India to Have 500 Million Mobiles by 2010
Nokia India expects that the country will have 500 million mobile phone users by 2010 - with 60 million of them having mobile video capability and 100 million using mobile music services. Speaking at the Goafest conclave, vice-president and managing director Nokia India, D Shivakumar, salso said that half the subscribers would be accessing the internet via their mobile phone. more
Related Tags: mobile-video, India
Microsoft Wants to Extend Mobile OS Reach, But Doubts Remain
LAS VEGAS -(Dow Jones)- While Microsoft wants to expand beyond business customers, it remains to be seen if the mix of improvements to its Windows Mobile operating system will be able to get the job done. more
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Ringtone Sales in the USA Start to Decline
Broadcast Music (BMI), the U.S. performing right organization has published its annual mobile music market projections for 2008 and figures for 2007. BMI projects that ringbacktones will surpass $210 million in U.S. retail sales during calendar year 2008, up 50% from BMIÃ's 2007 market estimate of $140 million. A ringbacktone is a musical work that is performed to the caller when they place a call to a participating mobile subscriber. more
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