Let Me Be Mobile

I ran across this “cool” promotion from the CoolSW site.  It’s a user-centric software bundle at LetMeBeMobile.com.  
I did a quick search on the site and 3 of the 4 participating companies were submitted onto CoolSW and it looks like they all got together in a marketing campaign to promote mobile applications and a possibility to win a Zune (30 GB). 
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EMI Music DRM-Free – Who cares?

Apple will sale EMI music without anti-piracy (DRM – digital rights management) technology — Steve Jobs proclaimed in February that music companies should sell their music DRM-free. Evangelizing that DRM-free music would create a truly interoperable music marketplace.
About a month later (4/2/07), in agreement with music label EMI, Apple is making EMI songs available [...]

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Music Industry Driven By Art?

Steve Jobs provided a good read on his view and thoughts of the music industry yesterday and basically asks for DRM free music, something the entire world has been asking for. Jobs can be a catalyst, but towards what? What should the music industry do?
He makes excellent points in his post:
Today’s most popular iPod [...]

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I’m NOT a Thief!

Hardly a day streams by that someone in the music industry doesn’t pontificate that “billions” have been ripped off by music users…as example:
Universal Music CEO, Doug Morris “These devices (reference to iPod) are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it”… from a press gather on why they charge a royalty of $1 [...]

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Welcome to the Zune Social…

I recieved the below teaser email from Microsoft today on the new bundled personal media player/service which goes on sale November 14th. The Zune site is LIVE today as well as the animated shorts on the arts.net site. Interesting site, but as appealing as the device and service look…I’ll stay the course [...]

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Apple Defines Social Networking – It’s the Ear-Bud Stupid!

The Microsoft Zune™ digital media player and online service will be available to consumers in the U.S. on Nov. 14, 2006.
Microsoft (MSFT) claims to be putting the social back into digital music. Translated: they hope it’s an iPod killer and iTunes replacement for Christmas ‘06. The device retails for $249.99 U.S. and the marketing hype [...]

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