Native Communications» Music http://donholloway.com Innovations, technology, and applications Fri, 18 May 2012 03:05:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Show-biz flashbacks in Vegas http://donholloway.com/show-biz-flashbacks-in-vegas/ http://donholloway.com/show-biz-flashbacks-in-vegas/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:37:00 +0000 Don Holloway http://donholloway.com/show-biz-flashbacks-in-vegas/ As I was leaving the CES show and heading towards my car, I was confronted with this traveling billboard.DSC00684

It reminded me of an evening many years ago, when I was attending the NAB show and was invited to see the fabulous Susan Anton and the Rockettes with Martin Noar. 

We went to the show, hoping to sell them an in-ear monitoring rig.  They had other plans, which involved us giving them one for free.  Before we understood what was up, we were put into the seats set aside for “royalty” right dead front, dead center.  We were then subject to a full court press designed to wow us.  The only thing that I really remember was a version of “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing”, which was pretty much a self evident truth.

Much of the this year’s CES show for me was related to the mobile telecom industry becoming more involved in media and entertainment. Lots of excitement around this space, new revenue streams, etc.  All I can say was that this truck brought me back some memories of what I’ve been missing.

]]> http://donholloway.com/show-biz-flashbacks-in-vegas/feed/ 0 Gracenote debuts MusicID app for iPhone http://donholloway.com/gracenote-debuts-musicid-app-for-iphone/ http://donholloway.com/gracenote-debuts-musicid-app-for-iphone/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:27:33 +0000 Don Holloway http://donholloway.com/?p=132 Sony-owned content and data solutions provider Gracenote’s Gravity Mobile unit announced the launch of its MusicID application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch, promising a comprehensive music discovery guide enabling consumers to identify music, search lyrics and view artist biographies as well as purchase songs via iTunes. Users can search MusicID by inputting the artist or track name, lyrics or holding their mobile device to a nearby audio source–from there, Gravity Mobile supplies recommendations and links directly into the iTunes catalog, also delivering related content and information including YouTube video clips. Gravity Mobile adds that MusicID leverages Gracenote’s Global Media Database spanning more than 100 million tracks–Gracenote powers services including iTunes, Yahoo Music Jukebox and Winamp, along with mobile music applications from Samsung, Sony Ericsson, KDDI, KTF and Musiwave.

For more on MusicID:
- read this release

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