AT&T keeps expanding its music offering. Lately they've announced two new music applications - mSpot's Make-UR-Tones and Remix. The first mentioned app allows customers to customize ringtones from their favorite part of a song (1-30 seconds), right on their handsets. The mSpot Make-UR-Tones is available for a monthly subscription of $6.99 for three ringtones, with [...]

Talk about lockdown. In a move that should make anti-trust litigators foam at the mouth, Apple has reportedly banned the development of any music player application for the iPhone. The new iPhone SDK apparently restricts applications from accessing iTunes functions, effectively prohibiting developers from accessing the iTunes music library or expanding on the iPhone's music-player. That [...]