Novel cell phone service helps you figger out what song that is on the radio!

John C. Dvorak posited in one of his columns a while back that killing Napster (the free version) was the worst thing the music industry ever did, because it killed the major way to sample new music. You can't do it on the radio anymore, because they play songs for 20 minutes and don't tell you who the heck played that song you liked. (I've never understood this.....you'd think they'd be doing MORE commercial breaks these days, not less. It's all about advertising after all...)

Well, AT&T has solved this problem with a new cell phone service.

Reminds me of a widget I saw some years back that you could buy and push a button on to "bookmark" music you were listening to at a particular time and then use it with your computer later to find out what the song was. Never heard about it again (not surprised, are you?)

So I dunno if this AT&T service will go anywhere either. I only sort of agree with Dvorak, too. After all, even though Napster has gone commercial, there's always KaZaa, Gneutella, OpenNap, Usenet newsgroups, etc, etc. But then, I've long since stopped paying attention to Mr. Duh Whore Hack. Him and Dennis Miller used to be great....but they've gone down the tubes the last few years.