Melodeo Creates Peer-to-Peer Music Sharing Service for Cell Phones

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 10, 2005 - 2:40am.

Seattle -- Melodeo, a developer of mobile music delivery technology, announced on Thursday that it has developed a new peer-to-peer mobile music sharing service, that lets cell phone owners send purchased tracks to one another over Bluetooth connections. The service will let the recipient listen to a 30-second sample of a track sent over Bluetooth, and then purchase the full track -- with Melodeo sending a decryption key over the carrier's network to unlock the song and billing the purchase to the recipient's cellular account. Seattle-based Melodeo also lets users purchase and download track to their own cell phones. The company said it will initially launch the new music-sharing service in Europe during the first quarter.
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