Mobile Content Bits: Google Contacts Sync; Nokia Music In Italy; Mobile Film Tickets; Song ID
Matt Kapko
- mocoNews.net
-- Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Adds Contacts To Sync For BlackBerry App: BlackBerry fans with a special place in their heart for Google services rejoice. Google Sync for BlackBerry has been updated to include two-way contacts synchronization. The downloadable application previously synched users’ calendars to their device, but the magic ended there. Release. -- Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Music Store Launches In Italy: With a catalog spanning more than 4 million songs, Nokia has launched its digital music store in Italy. Nokia has made a big push to get deals with regional record labels in each country in which it launches the service to appeal directly to music fans in those markets. The firm said more than half of its catalog in Italy is from local artists. Nokia has hired teams in each country to determine the tastes in each region and make deals with labels and local aggregators to bring those artists on board. Release. -- Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Offering Mobile Tickets For Variety Film Screenings: Verizon customers who get invited by Variety to its award season Screening Series can receive their tickets on their mobile phone for the first time. The sixth annual screening series, which brings together voting members from various guilds, will feature at least 40 films. Mobile tickets will be sent via MMS with a video greeting from Variety’s Editor-in-Chief Peter Bart. Question-and-answer sessions following some of the screenings will be available on Verizon’s V CAST and FiOS TV services. Release. -- Verizon’s Song ID Application Crosses 10 Million Downloads: Verizon tracked its 10 millionth Song ID download. The application, which launched in May 2007, lets customers identify songs by holding their phones up to the source of the music and then returns a result within 10 seconds on average. Verizon said it’s handled more than 100 million requests using the application. Release.
-- Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Adds Contacts To Sync For BlackBerry App: BlackBerry fans with a special place in their heart for Google services rejoice. Google Sync for BlackBerry has been updated to include two-way contacts synchronization. The downloadable application previously synched users’ calendars to their device, but the magic ended there. Release. -- Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Music Store Launches In Italy: With a catalog spanning more than 4 million songs, Nokia has launched its digital music store in Italy. Nokia has made a big push to get deals with regional record labels in each country in which it launches the service to appeal directly to music fans in those markets. The firm said more than half of its catalog in Italy is from local artists. Nokia has hired teams in each country to determine the tastes in each region and make deals with labels and local aggregators to bring those artists on board. Release. -- Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Offering Mobile Tickets For Variety Film Screenings: Verizon customers who get invited by Variety to its award season Screening Series can receive their tickets on their mobile phone for the first time. The sixth annual screening series, which brings together voting members from various guilds, will feature at least 40 films. Mobile tickets will be sent via MMS with a video greeting from Variety’s Editor-in-Chief Peter Bart. Question-and-answer sessions following some of the screenings will be available on Verizon’s V CAST and FiOS TV services. Release. -- Verizon’s Song ID Application Crosses 10 Million Downloads: Verizon tracked its 10 millionth Song ID download. The application, which launched in May 2007, lets customers identify songs by holding their phones up to the source of the music and then returns a result within 10 seconds on average. Verizon said it’s handled more than 100 million requests using the application. Release.
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