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Shazam is now available for Windows Phone 8 devices, allowing users to discover new music while on the go. Not only do you get unlimited tags to identify any song in seconds, but also the ability to quickly buy that tune through XBox Music or Nokia Music (for Lumia smartphone owners), see the song lyrics,…
The 2012 London Olympics are over and Shazam proudly announced they’ve killed it, attracting several million interactions with its Shazam-enabled NBC Olympics broadcast. Fans used the Shazam app to access numerous features such as video highlights, athlete bios and stories, results and the medal count to keep up with all of the action using the…
Nothing drives app downloads like deals with handset makers and mobile operators. It’s not like Shazam isn’t already famous enough, it’s just that they want even more users. And they managed to get one more big partner on board – T-Mobile USA, which is featuring the popular music/video discover app in the Music Hub section…
Shazam is out with what is self-described as a “major update” to the app, version 5.0. It delivers a groundbreaking new feature thanks to rewritten software that enables users to tag audio and Shazam will identify it within a single second. Now, you can launch the Shazam app, put your phone up to a speaker…
Popular media discovery app Shazam is about to get even better, at least for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones, which will get the NFC-based Android Beam capability. As a result, Shazamers will be able to hold their devices back-to-back with that of their friends to share their favorite music, merchant offers and television tags.…
The Big Game is this weekend and research tells us that you’ll likely use your phone during the Super Bowl. One of the apps you may use a lot is Shazam, as it will be connected to a large portion of the Big Game including some of the ads. You may best know Shazam for…
We’ve already talked about Shazam-enabled shows, which allow TV addicts to not only recognize what they’re watching but also to interact with the show. The “world’s leading media discovery company” is now announcing that the entire second season of Being Human on Syfy will renew the integration of Shazam for TV into the hit series.…
Shazam is teaming-up with Delivery Agent to allow its users not only to identify TV shows they’re watching, but also to purchase products related to the Shazam-enabled show directly from their Apple iOS or Android mobile devices. As a result, users who “Shazam the show” will be presented with the TV show-specific storefront operated and…
Shazam updated its Android application with a new feature – music previews. As a result, Shazamers are able to listen to a 30-second clip of a song they’ve tagged, helping them decide if they like it and want to buy it. What’s more, music previews will also work when browsing through tag history, friends’ tags…
Shazam, the pre-eminent music ID app for Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Phone has completed their first corporate acquisition, and have waste no time in integrating its features. LyricPlay syncs up with music as you’re listening to it, and shows you the words to the song in a sharp and animated format. The new…