The deal will also see Mobile Streams offer the content though its other channels, including mobilewallpapers.com, mobilebikinis.com and mobilecomedy.mobi.

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Spotted on electronista, Philips portable new audio player, GoGear LUXE, a unique player built expressly to tie in with a phone.

The device is designed to be wearable as a fashion item and to serve as a Bluetooth headset; the LUXE not only pairs wirelessly with a phone to warn of incoming calls but carries dual microphones of its own to answer the call with active noise canceling. A one-line display shows incoming calls without having to fetch the phone from a pocket.

Spotted on electronista, Philips portable new audio player, GoGear LUXE, a unique player built expressly to tie in with a phone.

The device is designed to be wearable as a fashion item and to serve as a Bluetooth headset; the LUXE not only pairs wirelessly with a phone to warn of incoming calls but carries dual microphones of its own to answer the call with active noise canceling. A one-line display shows incoming calls without having to fetch the phone from a pocket.

Tracks affected include Hot by Avril Lavigne, which is displayed as H*t, while The Cheeky Girls' biggest hit has become Cheeky Song (Touch My B*m).

An Apple spokesman said a "database glitch" occurred when the service was checked for explicit references, and would be fixed as soon as possible.

Profanities are regularly blanked out on the online music store.

Tracks affected include Hot by Avril Lavigne, which is displayed as H*t, while The Cheeky Girls' biggest hit has become Cheeky Song (Touch My B*m).

An Apple spokesman said a "database glitch" occurred when the service was checked for explicit references, and would be fixed as soon as possible.

Profanities are regularly blanked out on the online music store.

The RIAJ has announced that two men from Hyogo were taken into custody by police for running a mobile music download sites called "Daisan Sekai" ("The Third World").

They had no license to offer their tracks, although it's not clear from the announcement whether Daisan Sekai was a money-making venture or simply a file download hub.

The site attracted more than a million unique users and is regarded by the RIAJ as "one of the most popular illegal mobile music site[s]" in the country.

So we have gone from being cell phone users who loved to change our ringtones, making whatever a mild a statement that was, giving a glimpse of our personality or just making it easier to identify our own phone, to wanting the same ringtone as everyone else - everyone else who has an iPhone that is. And this from people who wouldn't have been caught dead choosing a default ringtone from their Nokia.

According toJupiter Research, about 66 percent of respondents to a recent survey said nothing would motivate them to listen to music on a mobile. That's a bit of a shock given the success of theiPhone ( News - Alert), a device some have speculated will replace the iPod itself.

About 14 percent of users said they wanted over-the-air tunes. About 16 percent of respondents say they assign ringtones to phone book contacts, says Robert Andrews, mocoNews.net writer.

"Game manufacturer Taito has created the "Chokkan Classic" software for NTT DoCoMo's i-mode Internet service that lets users to pick their instruments and the melody they want to play.

To activate the sounds, users must either rub or move a finger infront of their phone's infrared sensor. The sensor can also be used to sync several users' phones to create the myriad sounds of an orchestra."

"Almost 75% of music pirates would stop if told to by their ISP, the survey of 1,500 UK consumers found.

The research looked at the digital habits of consumers and found that the abundance of online music services was convincing many to go straight.

Just over half of those questioned said they got music from legal subscription sites, or those supported by ads. "

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