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AudioBox.fm, an online streaming service which lets you access your music collection via the cloud, has today released its highly anticipated native iPhone application. With the new app, you can organize your files by playlist, artist, genre or album and stream them directly to your mobile device. You can also scrobble your played tracks over to Last.fm and, on devices running iOS 4.0, you can listen to music in the background while multitasking.

Oh, and it's free.

It's been four months since we first got a preview of online music service MOG's mobile offerings for Android and iPhone and now the waiting is finally over. Like most any new app, it has a few bugs and a few features missing (like multitasking and fast app switching for iOS 4) that we hope to see with future updates, but otherwise proves to be a solid entry into mobile, cloud-based music apps.

According to Spotify's CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek, MP3s are slowly becoming irrelevant as the world is shifting towards streaming music services. In an interview with the U.K.'s Telegraph, Ek argues that "Music needs to be like water. It needs to be ubiquitous. We need to understand that this is not about MP3 files anymore; the MP3 file has become the URL and through that unique identifier I can send you something and you'll be able to know what it is and listen to it."

There was this place. Lenny's Nosh Bar. Depending on your age when you found it, it was where you hung out in college, high school, or after college. One of its habitués, talking it over on a Facebook page devoted to the place, decided to create the Lenny's Jukebox on YouTube. The reaction was overwhelmingly positive. What a great use of new technology to resurrect a moment of past time! Seems like he wasn't the only one to have that idea.

RecreateMyNight.com is devoted to just such a purpose. But it pulls together a full suite of social media tools in the service of transcendent memory. In addition to video, it allows text, status updates, photos and more.

Despite claims from sectors of the record industry that file-sharing kills creativity or that the Internet is dead, the digital music industry clearly has strong momentum right now, aided in no small part by cloud technologies that promise ubiquitous access to music. Both Apple and Google are poised to make an entry into cloud-based music services, joining the numerous other vendors already vying to provide us with music acquisition, sharing, and storage services.

MOG, the increasingly popular on-demand music service, just announced its first hardware partnership. MOG's users can now access the service from their Roku players in the living room. Last week, Drew Denbo, the company's senior vice president of business development, told us that MOG believes that as Internet-connected devices like the Roku become more popular, users will finally be able to take their online entertainment options beyond the desktop and into the living room. On the Roku player, MOG users will be able to access their libraries, playlists and artist radio stations.

Last night, Microsoft's Bing got a major overhaul that added more entertainment features to the company's search engine. Bing now makes it easier to find song lyrics, TV shows with online video, as well as information about movies and movie times. Bing now also allows users to preview songs via Microsoft's Zune service. The implementation of this - with the songs and preview buttons at the top of the search results - looks almost exactly like Google's Music Search. In addition to these search-oriented features, Microsoft also partnered with a number of developers to offer about 100 popular casual games directly on Bing.

The music and movie industries have been on a quest to place blame ever since they realized they were losing sales to Internet piracy. The RIAA in the United States went as far as to sue and fine individual users for downloading songs on peer-to-peer services like Napster and Limewire, or websites like The Pirate Bay or SendSpace. Others went after the services themselves, and in most cases were successful, though many others still exist. Now, BPI (British Recorded Music Industry), the U.K.'s version of the RIAA, is going after the middle man, Google, by serving the search giant with a DMCA take-down notice.

Some surveys come out and my first response is the people asking the questions obviously weren't talking to me or my friends. A perfect example of this is the latest survey by mobile entertainment company Myxer, which tells us that the CD still reigns supreme, the radio is the top source for music discovery and Pandora - the website designed to play music customized to your expressed taste - ranks second to last in how we find new tunes to add to our collections.

While the survey tries to tell us that things haven't changed as much as we'd like to think, we believe that the scales have tipped and the end of days are near for the old guard.