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IMImobile scores first European music deal with Meteor

"A la carte" models superior to ad-funded and subscription alternatives, says service provider

Pay-per-track mobile music services are more rewarding for operators than subscription or ad-funded models, according to one service provider that is providing its music services to an Irish operator.

Irish operator Meteor, which launched a full track music download service on 11 November, is using a managed service from value-added services provider IMImobile.  

WIRE: Sports.comm expands existing services using Volantis Mobile Content Framework

Volantis, a leading supplier of Intelligent Content Adaptation solutions for the Mobile Internet, today announced that Sports.Comm, Greece's provider of sports and entertainment mobile services, has selected Volantis Framework.

iO global and Xiam team up to provide targeted content and recommendations for mobile users

Xiam Technologies, a specialist in Mobile Content Discovery and Recommendations solutions, and iO global, a provider of integrated mobile content solutions, have today announced they are working together to bring the Xiam content recommendations technology (My Personal Offers

Content discovery

If "content is King", then the mechanism for discovering content must be the crown jewels. So what's the best way to expose content and other services to end users?

It seems that interpreting just what constitutes ‘content discovery' depends on your particular perspective. While operators may view this facility as an integral part of a handset's capabilities, by contrast subscribers may see discovery as something which naturally resides on the mobile Internet like Google does