Archive for the ‘Ringtones’ Category

Make an A, Get a Ringtone

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

I used to get good grades because it was expected of me. If I did exceptional my folks would sometimes reward me with a toy or game. However, that was never the motivation. I'd say it was mostly pride, sibling rivalry, a sense of what I felt was right, and ...

nazi ringtones!?!? - problems with affiliate search marketing

Friday, October 19th, 2007

It's hard to believe that anyone would sell Nazi ringtones. But according to this landing page they are available by SendMe Mobile, Thumbplay, and FunMobile. Wow. Who knew? Now really?!? Which company in their right mind would offer such content? This is a typical case of a search affiliate who would ...

ATT Smart Limits Puts Parents In Control of Cell Billing and Usage; Angers Children

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

It looks like ATT has finally listened to parents' call to be able to have more control over their Family Plans. Smart Limits is an optional feature priced at $4.99/month which allows parents to limit minutes, messaging, and access to premium content such as ringtones on a phone number by ...

Stephen Colbert Gives Away Free Ringtone

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Sort of... I'll make an attempt to extract the sound byte and post it here. In the meantime, take a listen (last 7 seconds). Visit:Comedy Central : Videos

Custom ringtones for your iPhone - Thanks Hackers!

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

Boom! I've tried to refrain from participating in the iPhone hype; but there are some things I can't resist. The iPhone has been criticized since day 1 for not allowing custom ringtones. for Looking at the video, hackers have figured out a way to load custom ringtones onto an iPhone. Also, ...

Custom Ringtones via iTunes (or $.99 realtones)

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Mac Rumors reports that the next version of iTunes may include a ringtone creator tool. iTunes 7.3 is listed as a requirement for the iPhone but has not yet been released by Apple. Reportedly, the new version of iTunes will allow you to convert any song that is available on iTunes ...

Use Ringtones to Catch Leopards

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

When ringtones were invented I don't think they had this in mind. In western India, animal sound ringtones such as the mooing of a cow or bleating of a goat have been used to lure hungry leopards away from people and into cages! Vasani said forest guards have downloaded the sounds ...

RIAA Wins One for the Fans (I mean Record Labels)

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Yes, you heard it here. Last September, with the fans in mind, the RIAA had petitioned the US Copyright office for a decision on whether ringtones were subject to compulsory licensing as defined by section 115 of US copyright law. In a opinion released today by the US Copyright office, ringtones do ...

Free Ringtone

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Yes, an absolutely FREE ringtone* from Cingular for Cingular MEdia NET subscribers. *Taxes may apply. There will be a charge for the kilobytes used to deliver the content to the phone at the MEdia Net rate on your plan. Cingular is kindly offering the Star Spangled Banner for no charge at the ...

Japanese prefer polytones to realtones

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

When it comes to ringtones some people prefer their phones to sound like crappy transistor radios (realtones) while others prefer the sweet synthesized midi sounds (polytones). In Japan, the progenitors of mobile content, only 15.7% of survey respondents indicated they use real tones. More surprising was the fact that 73.7% of respondents ...