Shazam has announced it's going (PRODUCT)RED with a special charity edition app now available for the iPhone on the App Store.

Offering the same music discovery features as the premium Shazam Encore app, there's also new content related to (PRODUCT)RED.

For each app purchased, Shazam will give 20% of the price to the global fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Africa.

The (SHAZAM)RED Special Edition App, to give it its official title, can be identified by its red-coloured product icon and is available for ?2.99, 3.99 euros or $4.99.

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Shazam goes PRODUCT RED originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:18:15 +0000

Shazam has announced the launch of the previously promised "premium" version of its iPhone app called Shazam Encore.

A paid-for download, as opposed to the previous free offering, Shazam is promising new functionality including improved speed performance.

There's also now music recommendations that suggests songs similar to the track the user has tagged for identification, lists of what's popular, the ability to search music and a "car mode" said to "make it simple to discover what’s playing on the radio even when driving".

Shazam will continue to offer the free Shazam app on the App Store but new users will now be limited to identifying five tracks per month. ?

Those who've previously downloaded the free app "will get all of these great features they've come to expect from Shazam without any limitations", as well as new Facebook integration says the company. ?

The Shazam Encore app is available for ?2.99, 3.99 euros or $4.99 now.

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Shazam launches new paid-for "Encore" iPhone app originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:45:27 +0000

Shazam, the music discovery service, has revealed that more than 50 million people around the world have now used the Shazam service.

This is an increase of 15 million users since February of this year, while Shazam is now available, across various platforms in over 150 countries.

The Shazam iPhone app has been downloaded more than 10 million times via the App Store. It's also racked up some high-up rankings on BlackBerry App World, Nokia's Ovi Store and the Android Market.

As well as the milestone, Shazam is also celebrating KPCB investment from the iFund that will see the app developed for more mobile platforms and in multiple languages.

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Shazam tops 50 million global users originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:21:01 +0100

Shazam has announced that it has done a new deal with a mobile phone operator and teamed up with O2 to offer its music discovery service to O2 customers.

The agreement means that anyone on O2 can use the Shazam service by dialing 2580 on their mobile and holding it up to the music they want to know more about for a few seconds.

The Shazam service will then text the user back with the details about the track, and O2 customers will get a link embedded in that text that will allow them to immediately buy the song.

As far as charges go, each time users call the Shazam music service standard call charges apply (O2 reckons around 12p per call) then each successful identification (or "tag") costs 50p. If the tune can't be recognised, there's no charge.

Shazam has previously launched for platforms - such as the iPhone, Android devices and RIM's BlackBerry smartphones. In 2008 it hit a milestone of identifying over 100 million tracks.

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Shazam launches for O2 customers originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:01:00 +0100