London - Shazam, a provider of mobile music identification applications, announced on Thursday that it has increased its database from 6 to 8 million tracks, following new partnerships and direct sourcing activities. Available on 75 carriers globally, including for the iPhone in the U.S., Shazam lets users hold their mobile phones to a speaker playing music, and receive a text message back identifying the artist and song, along with links to make purchases.

Los Angeles - A number of social media services on Tuesday announced the release of applications designed for Android, the mobile phone operating system developed by Google, including social music service Imeem, music identification service Shazam, and the MySpace (NYSE: NWS) social network. Both Imeem and Shazam said their mobile music services will allow users to tag songs they hear for purchase via the Amazon MP3 store. The MySpace application for Android also integrates Shazam, meaning that MySpace Mobile users on Android-powered phones can hold them up to speakers and have the song being played identified automatically.

London - Shazam, the operator of a mobile music discovery service, announced on Tuesday a deal with Korea's Samsung, to embed its application on Samsung phones, including its new Beatb and Beats handsets. Shazam recently announced 1.5 million downloads of its application for Apple's iPhone.

London - Shazam, the developer of a mobile music discovery application that can identify tunes played within earshot of a mobile phone's microphone, said this week that its application for Apple's iPhone has been downloaded over 1.5 million times in its first six weeks of availability. Users of the Shazam iPhone application have used it to identify more than 20 million music tracks in the last two months.