Vendors hawking jewelry. Mobile carts selling artery-clogging food items. Live music with random bouts of feedback.

Music can now be brought anywhere using portable mp3 players, mobile phones, and even laptops.

Music can now be brought anywhere using portable mp3 players, mobile phones, and even laptops. ... or why there's no vacation from your vocation!

DAYTONA BEACH -- Seaside Music Theater is struggling for its theatrical life with benefit performances, while trying to make good on refunds for canceled summer shows.

KUCHING: The launching of Blue Cube store at tHe Spring Shopping Mall here yesterday marked a significant milestone for Celcom (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and i-Mobile International Co Ltd in taking a step further in the local retail industry by offering one-stop mobile services to Sarawak consumers.

At a Mobile Web Wars Roundtable held by TechCrunch more than 20 mobile wonks discussed that state of mobile platforms. The iPhone was an object of adoration but not a big enough market to merit full attention.

At a Mobile Web Wars Roundtable held by TechCrunch more than 20 mobile wonks discussed that state of mobile platforms. The iPhone was an object of adoration but not a big enough market to merit full attention.

When Marco Zaldivar asked T-Mobile to shut off his text service, the firm said that was impossible. Instead, he was given a Hobson's choice — either sign up for a bundled text message plan with a monthly fee, pay $800 in early termination fees to cancel the service or turn the phones off for the remainder of his two-year contract.

Europe's mobile music scene is more advanced than that in the US. While the UK is the biggest individual mobile music market in the EU-5, the other countries-France, Germany, Italy and Spain-are reporting sharp growth as well. eMarketer predicts that mobile music retail revenues in the EU-5 will reach over $1.4 billion by 2012, up from $267 million in 2007.

eMarketer has come out with a confident forecast for mobile music fortunes in Europe. It reckons retail revenue in the main five EU countries alone will balloon from $267 million to $1.4 billion by 2012.