Groove Mobile and Universal Music UK Move Off-Portal.Full Track Downloads Available Instantly Via Short Code BEDFORD, Mass. & LONDON & CANNES, France -- Groove Mobile, the world's leading mobile music commerce service, announced today a partnership with Universal Music U.K., the U.K.'s leading record company, to build and operate an innovative off-portal mobile music store. Through this partnership, U.K. mobile phone users on any U.K. wireless carrier will have instant access to full track downloads from Universal Music U.K.'s extensive catalogue via SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. short codes from their mobile phones. "Groove Mobile shares our commitment to driving the international digital music business forward through off-portal innovations that deliver mobile music to larger audiences," stated Rob Wells, Senior Vice President, Digital, for Universal Music Group International (UMGI). "We are enthusiastic about the prospect of bringing our talented artists direct to consumers using SMS short codes in partnership with Groove Mobile." With today's announcement, Groove Mobile and Universal Music U.K. will bring the top hits to wireless customers who send short code messages to Universal Music U.K. artists' WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. stores. Universal Music U.K. is already the recognized leader in digital music, taking four of the top five best-selling digital albums in 2006. Groove Mobile is the leading U.K. mobile music platform powering the U.K.'s top-rated 3MusicStore and the Orange Music Player. "Universal Music U.K. is leveraging the Groove Mobile platform which runs on a majority of the world's music phones in order to provide consumers with the robust downloads they have come to expect when using today's 3G networks," stated Adam Sexton, Chief Marketing Officer of Groove Mobile. "We are proud to partner with Universal Music U.K. and share their commitment to leadership in digital music by bringing mobile phone users in the U.K. the hottest music through off-portal innovations across multiple carriers." The Universal Music U.K. Music Store powered by Groove Mobile will feature full track music downloads from the Universal Music catalogue of top artists, including Take That, Razorlight, Scissor scissor pertaining to scissors; like scissors in effect. scissor bite see scissor bite. scissor mouth a narrow space between the rami of the mandible so that the molar arcades do not meet. Sisters, the Killers, Mika, James Morrison James Morrison (or Morison) is the name of several persons: In music:
About Universal Music Group Universal Music Group is the world's largest music company with wholly owned record operations or licensees in 75 countries. Its businesses also include Universal Music Publishing Group Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) is a music publishing company and is part of the Universal Music Group. It is one of the world's largest music publishing businesses. UMPG owns or administers more than 1 million copyrights. , one of the industry's largest global music publishing The contractual relationship between a songwriter or music composer and a music publisher, whereby the writer assigns part or all of his or her music copyrights to the publisher in exchange for the publisher's commercial exploitation of the music. operations. Universal Music Group International is the division that manages UMG's businesses in countries outside of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Universal Music Group consists of record labels Decca Music Group, Deutsche Grammophon Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical record label. The company has long been known for its high standards of audio fidelity. The Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft , Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Geffen Records Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group. Company history Beginnings , Island Def Jam Here is a list of artists signed to The Island Def Jam Music Group. 0-9
in full Music Corporation of America Entertainment conglomerate. It was founded in Chicago in 1924 by Jules Stein as a talent agency. In the 1960s it bought Decca Records and Universal Pictures, and today it produces films, music, and television shows. Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Philips, Polydor Records, Universal Music Latino, Universal Motown Records Group, and Verve Music Group as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. The Universal Music Group owns the most extensive catalog of music in the industry, which is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises Universal Music Enterprises is the catalogue division of Universal Music Group. It includes Hip-O Records, Universal Chronicles and UM3 (which is the international label for UME). (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.). Universal Music Group also includes eLabs, a new media and technologies division, and Universal Music Mobile. Universal Music Group is a unit of Vivendi, a global media and communications company. ABOUT GROOVE MOBILE Groove Mobile is the world's leading mobile music service. Groove Mobile's Complete Music Gateway includes Full Track Mobile Downloads, Peer-to-Peer Sharing and Personalized Music Recommendations, in addition to providing Personalized and Programmed Streaming Radio, Music Subscriptions, and more. Groove Mobile powers 3UK, the UK's top rated mobile music service and the first mobile music service in the US, Sprint's Music Store. Groove Mobile launched the world's first secure peer-to-peer distribution in the mobile space, with its pioneering Tell-a-Friend feature. Groove Mobile's direct download service is available in the US, Canada, the UK, Europe, and Australasia and provides access to music from all the major labels and the top independent labels and distributors. www.groovemobile.com |
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