MUMBAI: Geodesic, a provider of mobile and desktop solutions for instant messaging, VoIP and Internet radio, has announced a partnership with Shoutcast to provide users with anytime access to an unlimited number of Internet radio stations.

The Shoutcast Radio Directory features over 40,000 professional and community programmed radio stations from around the globe.

AOL Music, Winamp, AOL Radio and Shoutcast GM Lisa Namerow says, We are pleased to partner with Geodesic to bring a significant amount of streaming content to iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Symbian Mundu Radio users. Geodesic offers an affordable, intuitive way to listen to music and other content on-the-go. This is mobile entertainment at its best....

Mundu Radio bundles music, content (such as news and sports) and personalisation for an easy-to-use, intuitive mobile entertainment experience. Users can either select and playback streams from existing Internet radio stations, or they can create and manage personalised play lists, enabling users to listen to their choice of music genres and songs whenever they like.

Geodesic senior VP of worldwide business development Arvind Venkateswaran says, We are pleased to partner with Shoutcast to provide carriers and consumers with seamless access to tens of thousands of Internet radio stations on-the-go. Geodesic is unique in providing location-specific content globally, based on operators' target demographics, geography and/or market focus. Our partnership with Shoutcast enables us to provide an enormous amount of music, sports, talk and community programming, specific to the US market....

Mundu Radio has been deployed with leading carriers and handset manufacturers throughout India, Asia, Europe and the U.S. The Mundu Radio client supports more than 100 popular handsets based on J2ME, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Android, Apple, Blackberry and Palm OS platforms. For more information, visit http://mundu.com/products/mundu-radio/features.

The recording industry, which had $40 billion in annual sales 10 years ago, is now bringing in just half that amount. At the same time, digital downloads – which make up a fifth of those sales – is seeing slowing growth. This makes for an opportune market for Internet radio. Forrester predicts the number of U.S. subscribers for subscription-based cloud music services will rise from 2.1 million now, to five million by 2014.