Shazam

ShazamTones is a new Cydia app for users who jailbreak their iphones. The app allows users to download free ringtones without having to alter songs in their iTunes library.

Shazam announced its Super Bowl 2012 kickoff Thursday, revealing that the entire Super Bowl, Super Bowl Halftime Show and almost half of all Super Bowl commercials can be tagged to win amazing prizes like cars, Best Buy gift cards and more.

It's the least Research in Motion (RIM) could do for its global customers impacted by the three-day outage of BlackBerry mobile services including messenger and email. The company said it will offer BlackBerry free apps as an apology of sorts, hoping to make amends for the trouble customers experienced throughout the world last week.

Shazam, whose technology lets people use their cell phones to learn the names of catchy songs, has raised $32 million in funding to bolster expansion plans and move the company closer to a potential public stock offering.

Two popular apps will come together in a recent collaboration.

Music services Spotify and Shazam are teaming up so that users of iPhones and Android phones can immediately buy music from Spotify that they have discovered using Shazam, the two companies said on Thursday.

Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins on Tuesday makes its latest bet on wireless device technology, with high hopes in music recognition and iPhone application developer Shazam, joining a wave of investment in the hot mobile content and technology market.