AT&T Wireless Opens Mobile Phone Music Site
The convergence of various technologies and digital devices continues as HollywoodReporter.com reports that “AT&T Wireless launched its mMode Music Store today, marking the first time U.S. consumers can discover, sample and purchase music using their appropriately sophisticated mobile phone. The store was built in cooperation with digital media solutions company Loudeye using Microsoft Windows Media Series and Windows Media Digital Rights Management, and is designed to integrate with home computers. It offers a library of about 750,000 songs, each of which costs 99 cents. Purchased songs are downloaded to buyers’ Windows PCs and automatically billed to their “choice of their regular monthly AT&T Wireless statement or credit card.”