Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Cingular Aims Squarely At iPod Shuffle

November 1, 2006

Cingular to Launch Cellphone Music Service
Carrier Is Teaming UpWith Napster, Yahoo; Challenge to Apple's iPod
By LI YUAN and ETHAN SMITHNovember 1, 2006; Page A3, The Wall Street Journal

Cingular is expected to begin partnering with some of the biggest online music services, including Napster Inc., Yahoo Inc.'s Yahoo Music and eMusic, to launch a music service on its cellphone network, people familiar with the matter say.

The service would work on cellphones that double as music players.

Cingular's move, set to be announced as early as tomorrow, is the latest sign that cellphones are morphing into entertainment devices that can play music and download songs off the Internet, and it sets the stage for a battle with Apple Computer Inc., whose iPod dominates the digital-music market. Apple has sold more than 60 million iPods in the past five years and is rumored to be working on a combination music player and cellphone....read more: here