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Reading back some posts on this and last years important strategic moves in mobile land, I have been thinking a bit more on the big moves from the telecom operators to get a share into the mobile music distribution market. Let’s have a closer look at what’s happening…
Some of the most important operator deals:
Vodafone-Musiwave, [...]

For its client Ford, Ogilvy Belgium just invented the “talking poster ad”, created specially for the advertising posters at busstops. The man on the poster (controlled on distance) starts making talks with the passengers passing by.

The system is connected to a webcam through a Telenet Wi-Fi hotspot.
You can see live reactions here (website in Dutch [...]

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IPdrum yesterday launched its IPdrum Skype Cable globally.

What the industry has been expecting to happen through WiFi, the market simply delivers with a cable - damn smart play from this Swedish-Norwegian company!
How it works:
The IPdrum Mobile Skype Cable connects a user’s old mobile phone (base phone) to the USB and soundports of his or her [...]

Musiwave, our partner in the MuLiMob project, will provide both mobile and fixed line downloads to provide a variety of mobile music services to Orange and Wanadoo’s 56 million customers across Europe. This is the first time that France Telecom has selected a single vendor to oversee their music offerings.
Viaccess will provide comprehensive DRM technology [...]