Archive for the ‘Ringtones’ Category

Crave bites Mocoblog’s Ringtone Roundup

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Leave it to CNET's Crave to bite my Ringtone Roundup idea. In all fairness, I have not posted a Ringtone Roundup in quite sometime. But c'mon at least come up with your own name for the post title. Read: Crave

CPA Empire and Mobile Sidewalk Team Up On Ringtone Fraud - ShoeMoney™

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Shoemoney has a great video of the Zapster/MobileSidewalk ringtone signup process where they are auto-checking a terms and condition box and in a new twist of uncompliancy: auto-submitting the form when the user finishes entering their phone number. The user never affirmatively checks the Terms and Condition box nor does s/he ...

4 of 5 Brits Fear Ringtone Criticism

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Forget about the car you drive, the way you dress, or your taste in music. Personal scrutiny has gone (to the) mobile. Dial-a-Phone indicates 97% of Brits judge personality based on ringtone choice. "Damn, she was smart, sexy, had a dope crib and whip; too bad her ringtone sucked. She could have ...

Download the iPhone Ringtone in Midi and MP3

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Since the keynote, the iPhone has been the talk of the town. The phone won't be out until the summer, buy thanks to Gizmodo and their fanboys you can download the iPhone ringtone in mp3 and midi format. and now NYC musician Andy Neesley helps us out by transcribing the ringtone ...

FYI: Full Music Tracks are Not Ringtones (even if you buy them from Cingular)

Friday, January 5th, 2007

I found this post on the Cingular customer service forums. I think it is a good example of the confusion in the marketplace regarding mp3 phones, music downloads and ringtone downloads. As consumers turn to mp3 phones these types of "complaints" are sure to increase. I am very frustrated! I ...

Mobile phone music-sharing rises amongst children

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

I'd like to see the RIAA, (record companies, etc) stop this. Technically illegal, the "sharing" of music over a phone-to-phone Bluetooth network is increasingly popular amongst children. This uses the same technology used to sync your pda to your PC, and receive digital business cards (if not by sync cable ...

Phonezoo: YA Mobile Content Sharing Community

Friday, November 17th, 2006

or YA Napster for mobile content. Unlike other 3G file sharing communities, this one has all the copyrighted material on their homepage for your consumption. Personally, it's all fair use until you upload it to a website and don't indicate that it is copyrighted material. Phonezoo relies on the users to indicate ...

Roll Your Own Real Tones

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Anyone who knows ringtones knows the majority of Real Tones for sale are covers performed by people who aren't the original singer or band. This is why the woman you hear warbling on your new Shakira Real Tone sounds more like an ex-roommate than the Latin lovely herself. The folks ...

10/06/06 - Top 10 Ringtone Roundup

Friday, October 6th, 2006

T-Lake brings sexy back to CA. A Crazy Bitch enters the Billboard. Hasselhoff a top tone in the UK? wtf. Billboard (Issue date 10/14/06) Super Mario Brothers Theme, Koji Kondo Sexy Love, Ne-Yo Halloween, John Carpenter Ms. New Booty, Bubba Sparxxx Featuring Ying Yang Twins ...

Rachael Ray Ringtones (No, Seriously)

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Wow...you'd think Oprah would have been the first daytime talk show host to do something this goofy, but no. Rachael Ray, TV's second-newest daytime chatterer, is teaming up with Epic Records to produce voicetones for all major U.S. wireless carriers. No word yet on the sort of things you can ...