If you’re down with that multi-room audio action thang and you like to walk the earth with an Android phone in your pocket, we bring glad tidings: Sonos has finally announced the release of an Android controller app.
The UK-based music streaming service We7 is ready to go head to head with Spotify and launch its own Android app, offering a two-week trial of the full version to tempt music lovers in.
If their recent patchy network coverage is anything to go by, there must be an awful lot of O2 customers watching YouTube videos on their smartphones at the moment.
Talking about the strain on resources that high data content sources can bring to a mobile network, O2 ‘s Chief Tech officer Derek McManus, claimed that: “Watching a YouTube video on a smartphone can use the same capacity on the network as sending 500,000 text messages simultaneously.”
The BBC has announced that it’s slapped backs and high five’d the folks at Stitcher.com to cut a deal to make the content of its World Service available to users of the mobile phone-based application.
The BBC World Service said that the corporation will “provide a selection of English language podcasts, with programming such as Global News, Digital Planet, Global Arts & Entertainment and Africa Today.”
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has thrown down his expensive leather gauntlet and announced his intention to do battle with the digital music industry, launching the new Sky Songs service next Monday (Oct 19).
The subscription service will enter a market dominated by Apple’s all-conquering iTunes and have to face competition from streaming music upstarts like such as Spotify and Last.fm, but with Murdoch’s pockets being diamond-mine deep, Sky Songs could well prove a serious contender.
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