With November quickly approaching, MEF Americas 2011: Mobile Content & commerce is just around the corner. Join us in Miami next month, together with the movers and shakers of the mobile content and commerce ecosystem to discuss and debate the issues that will shape the future of the industry across North and South America. Exploring the Carrier’s New Role...
Drones Win Inaugural Aussie Music Prize
Melbourne-based “psycho-blues” band the Drones’ second album was tonight (March declared the winner of the inaugural BigPond Australian Music Prize, held at the Museum Of Contemporary Art in Sydney. ,P> “Wait Long By the River and the Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By” (In-Fidelity/Shock) beat out more than 200 albums to win the...
Spitzer Charges Entercom Made Payola Bribes
In his first prosecution of radio’s music payola scams, Eliot Spitzer is hauling in the nation’s fourth-largest station owner, Entercom, for allegedly corrupting pop music airwaves. The New York attorney general said yesterday he took off his gloves in his two-year payola probe because Entercom’s brass balked at settling their alleged...
O2 To Launch ‘Radio with Pictures’
O2 has pledged to become the first mobile phone network to bring Nokia’s ‘visual radio’ technology to UK consumers, courtesy of a tie-in with the Virgin Radio station. It’s a “completely new kind of radio experience”, apparently. In the early days of television, the new medium was largely considered to be little more than...
