Wow, this looks really sleek! And it looks like Sony Ericsson’s "most exciting Xperia product yet", according to Ian Gardner, Corporate Vice President and Head of Asia Pacific Region, Sony Ericsson.
More details in the announcement after the break.
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07Jan
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23SepAsia Tech, Developers, Digital music, Gaming, Internet, Press Release, Youth Culture, m&a, news 3 Comments
More announcements from Friendster today. Is anybody still interested in Friendster? Maybe in S.E. Asia since MOL is more familiar with these markets. The numbers will show over time I guess. If this geek was running Friendster, I’d probably try to take on more niche but fast growing markets like mobile social networking, or privacy-enhanced social networking, basically hitting areas where Facebook will find hard to move into quickly for their sheer size and corporate direction.
This announcement seems to coincide with Group CEO for MOL Global and Friendster Ganesh Kumar Bangah’s opening keynote presentation this morning at Singapore’s largest social media event: the Social Media World Forum Asia (This geek moderated the social gaming panel with RockYou, Zynga, CyWorld, and Plus8Star yesterday), in exactly an hour from now. Not at the conference? You can follow the tweets for more on his presentation which starts in about an hour from now.
SINGAPORE, 23 September, 2010 – Friendster, a leading social networking site for young Asians, today announced that it is launching social media portals for music and social gaming fans in Asia.
The portals are the latest ventures from Friendster which was acquired in December last year by MOL Global (www.molglobal.net), one of Asia’s leading online payment companies.
“As a social networking site, Friendster has tremendous experience to make the Friendster Music and Friendster Games as socially connected portals for developers, artists and their fans. Friendster has a strong physical presence in Asia and now that it is part of MOL Global, we see huge opportunities to partner with developers and independent musicians to aid them in new ways of delivering and monetising their content to their fans,” said Ganesh Kumar Bangah, Friendster’s CEO and Group CEO for MOL Global.
Friendster Music
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01MarDigital music, Press Release, Singapore Tech, Youth Culture, gadgets, mobile, news, toys No Comments
Consumers in Singapore will be the first in the world to enjoy Nokia’s revolutionary digital music offering on a top-notch music-optimised device out in Singapore stores now!
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
Singapore – Nokia announced today that the highly anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is finally in Singapore and will be sold as a Comes With Music device at Nokia Branded Retail stores and local operator stores from February 28, 2009.
The latest in Nokia’s XpressMusic range of devices, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers an affordable music device with a touch screen interface to the mass market.
Consumers in Singapore will be the first in the world to get their hands on Read more…
Tags: Comes with Music, CWM, Nokia 5800, singapore, tube, unlimited music downloads, XpressMusic
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14Feb
Revolutionary digital music offer will be available on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia 5320 XpressMusic and Nokia 5220 XpressMusic devices, as well as the Nokia N96, Nokia N85 and Nokia N79 multimedia computers.
Singapore – Nokia will deliver music loud and clear to local music lovers with its revolutionary Comes With Music service when it is launched in Singapore in the coming weeks, making it the first market in Asia where it will be available.
The service will be delivered Read more…
Tags: Comes with Music, nokia, Nokia 5220 XpressMusic, Nokia 5320 XpressMusic, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N79, Nokia N85, Nokia N96
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05DecSomeone sent me this interesting story :New research shows up to 2.5 million children have picked up guitars and drums after playing music-themed video games.
Video games have led many anxious parents to fear that their children could turn into addicted, uncultured sloths.
But research by one of Britain’s largest music charities suggests that the popularity of active music titles such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band have prompted up to 2.5 million children to learn the instruments for real.
The report conducted by Youth Music found that of the 12 million young people aged from 3 to 18, more than half played music games. A fifth of those gamers said that they now played an instrument after catching the musical bug from the games.
“We have long known that young people are encouraged to take an interest in music if it is presented to them in a compelling way,” said Andrew Missingham, the music industry expert who wrote the report. “This research for the first time shows conclusively that young people are being inspired to make their own music by games that first piqued their interest.”
Guitar Hero, where players strap on a plastic guitar and strum along to rock hits, has sold 5.5 million copies worldwide since its 2005 release and spawned several games including Guitar Hero: World Tour, which came out last month. Rock Band, which features a plastic drum kit, has sold 4 million and the karaoke game SingStar has sold 4 million copies globally.
Guitar manufacturers and instrument stores told The Times that sales of instruments featured in the games are on the rise and music teachers said that the games were encouraging the uptake of music lessons.
“In the last nine months to a year, youngsters keep coming to me asking to learn odd tunes,” said Danny Lamb, 57, from High Wycombe,
and who has been teaching guitar and bass to students for over 25 years. “You’ll get an eight-year-old come in and want to learn
Paranoid by Black Sabbath. I wonder, ‘Where did they hear that from?’ and of course its from Guitar Hero. The kids love it.”Mr Lamb said that playing the toy instruments from the games was a good stepping stone for children wanting to learn how to play as it helped to develop a child’s hand-eye co-ordination and teaches them to follow a beat. Crucially, it also encourages a general interest in music.
Nick Matthews, 13, from Buckinghamshire, said that he had started to learn playing tracks such as School’s Out by Alice Cooper on a real guitar. He first heard the song while playing Guitar Hero with his 67-year-old grandfather.
“I like it because it’s really fast,” he said. “I probably wouldn’t like the songs if it wasn’t for game.”
Adam Easton, from Music Ground, the parent company for the majority of the musical instrument shops in Denmark Street, in the West End of London, said: “Because getting a guitar is actually cheaper than buying a new computer at Christmas, when kids get influenced by Guitar Hero and think they really want to play an electric, mums and dads say, ‘great, I’ve got him off the computer at last! Here’s 200 quid, go buy yourself one’.”
The US guitar-maker Gibson said that it had seen sales on the rise, particularly those that are featured in the video games such as the iconic Les Paul guitar.
- Times Online (UK)
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04OctAsia Tech, Digital music, Gaming, Social Media, Usability, cnet, gadgets, geeked, mobile, news, wireless 7 Comments
Nokia’s first touch-screen based phone for the mass market! My first peek shared here.
MC-ee Denise Keller
Tags: come with music, DJ, launch, nokia, tube, Universal Music Group, Xpress 5800
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06Jul
Tags: air piano, korg sp200
