Mobile Content Russia

Last week Russian WiMAX operator Yota announced that Yota Media and Yap-Yap services have become available for every Internet user. To begin using Yota's vast library of licensed multimedia content you have to sign up by visiting the web site www.yota.ru. You don't even have to be a Yota subscriber.

Yota Music is a service of Yota Media that allows listening to music from Yota's catalog at any time online. Yota Music collection features over 360 000 of licensed tracks provided by world's largest record labels. It comprises renowned hits as well as rare tracks.

In other words, Yota Music is an Internet media player without any memory size restriction. It is an online broadcast of music without any delays or advertisement. The rich library of recordings comprises top of the line musical pieces from world's classics to alternative music. Yota Music allows searching music catalog by a number of criteria: fragment of title, popularity, date of release, genre, album name, or name of an artist. Also, you can assemble your own collection of your favorite compositions, or use one of the pre-existing thematic collections.

Yota Cinema and Yota Books services will be launched within the Yota Media section soon.

Yap-Yap is a social service that lets its users post photos into personal photo albums directly from the mobile phone.

It also allows to specify the GPS coordinates of the place where the photos were taken, comment pictures and mark the locations on the map as well as copy your contacts from the handset, browse and edit them and synchronize the contacts with other devices.