Archive for June, 2005
Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
Jamster's woes continue, in yet another news article. The Times of London reports that children have been duped into signing up for costly mobile subscriptions.
At £3 a go, just four of the novelty ringtones is equivalent to the cost of an entire Coldplay album. Icstis, the body that oversees premium-rate ...
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
Wimbledon champion, Maria Sharapova now has her own ringtone. To be more precise, this is more of a SCREAMtone. Since her Wimbledon title in 2004, Sharapova has been in the media spotlight; taking much of it from Anna Kournikova (who never won a major tennis title.) As funny and ...
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
Chris Pirillo, the Lockergnome, has a post on a nifty piece of technology which allows you to make gsm calls from your pocket pc, or laptop. The device accepts a SIM card and plugs into your Compact Flash or PC Card (pcmcia) slot. The technology uses the GSM/GPRS network ...
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
Telecom Korea reports of a new product, the AirBeam, which will allow users to display text messages in the air simply by waving your cell phone. Download some software and attach the AirBeam LED array to your phone and your text messages and emoticons can be seen up to 100 ...
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
A great article on BBC details how one woman got more than just a ringtone.
It wasn't until my next bill arrived from Orange that I discovered each junk text from Jamster had cost me £3.
When I called Orange, the call centre operator told me I was one of hundreds of ...
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
ID Software has struck a deal to bring Quake to mobile phones. It will be available on the first 3D enabled phones. The game is promised to be faithful to the original - we will see about that. (I can't imagine hooking up my mouse and keyboard to my ...
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
Mobile phone users can win $100 to $10000 by simply texting from their phone. Users will be notified immediately if they are instant winners. "
All a player needs to do is (1) Find the text message option on his mobile phone; (2) Text in the code "WINCASH"; (3) Send to ...
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
Fuji and Nextel annouced [Nextel PhotoShare](http://www.nextel.com/photoshare) today. The new service allows customers to store, share and print photos from their multimedia-messaging-enabled Nextel phones and other digital cameras. Nextel will provide an application which will enable users with multimedia-messaging-enabled phones to access the more than 3,100 participating digital processing retail stores ...
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Monday, June 27th, 2005
As part of the launch of Coca-Cola Zero, the marketing geniuses at Coca-Cola are offering a free Coca-Cola ringtone. Users of T-Mobile, AT&T, and Cingular can text COKE ZERO to 42222 to receive the tone. The real tone is a modern version of the "I'd like to buy the world ...
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Monday, June 27th, 2005
An article on [The Feature](http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=101717) highlighted some of the differences between ringtone users and non-ringtone users. They indicate that "a subset of non-ringtone using phone users goes much further -- to the point where they actively dislike ringtones and find them annoying."
To that end, they identify a growing market for ...
Posted in Funny, Wacky, & Weird, Miscellany, News, Ringtones | 5 Comments »