The story is the same in every class, lecture, or discussion section: A professor is interrupted by the flamboyant ring-tone rendition of a popular rap song and distracted students are momentarily ...

In some parts of the world, ringtone sales are actually declining, and the former ringtone kings, like Jamba of Germany and Musiwave of France, are refocusing their businesses on other ways to ...

Here’s a wake-up call to anyone trying to solve a tricky problem at work, university or school. Researchers claim that finding solutions and remembering things is much easier if your mobile phone is ...

Ringtones have been around since the first telephones, and for the most part, they all sound rather similar — an electronic emulation of the ringing of bells that were connected to landline telephones ...

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast. So says William Congreve, who apparently never worked in an office full of cell phones and their many ring tones. According to a survey by Randstad USA, a ...

If you want your MTV to go with you, download Chingy’s “Right Thurr,” Blink-182’s “The Rock Show,” Christina Aguilera’s “Dirrty” or Ja Rule’s “Mesmerize” to be the ring tone on your cell phone. The ...

Downloading popular songs to use as personal cell phone ring tones has turned into a $3 billion global industry. A growing revenue stream for songwriters and publishers, ring tones are now outselling ...

SonyBMG and EMI Music Publishing have inked a wide-ranging licensing deal that that will speed the development of new music offerings for consumers in the United States and Canada. The deal, to be ...

[Author’s Note:I stand corrected. The article has been updated to reflect the fact that Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” does allow custom ringtones to be created.] Having used Windows Phone 7 in my 30 Days ...

Though the mobile phone has been around for some time now, the impact it has had on people’s daily lives continues to amaze me. From a simple communication tool, the mobile phone has evolved into a ...

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