Block That Ringtone!

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The Ringtone Label?

The Ringtone Label? 12/24/2004 12:18 PM
With the rise of ringtones, it seems that some have really taken the idea and tried to run with it. So far, certainly, ringtones have done well for some companies, but it's still not clear if it's a sustainable market, or a faddish one. There's also the fact that the industry continues to deny that file sharing of ringtones could ever be a risk -- which suggests they're only asking for serious trouble down the road. Still, the latest move is that one company has set up a record label just for ringtones. Because, already, musicians have separate labels for CDs and videos and digital downloads and... wait a second... no they don't. Most musicians basically sign deals with a single recording label to handle all of their musical endeavors, so it seems sort of strange to have an entirely separate label for ringtones only. For recording labels that don't already include this in their standard contracts, they will soon -- and then this new "label" will be out of luck. Of course, the reality is that it's just a way for this company to get a little extra publicity for these "unique" ringtones. Considering that part of the reason ringtones are so popular, though, is that people recognize the songs they represent, it makes you wonder if people really are that interested in songs that are designed just to be ringtones. Seems sort of like a niche market within a niche market.

Ringtone Tools 2.20

Ringtone Tools 2.20 06/22/2004 08:52 AM
Tools for creating ringtones on mobile phones.

Ringtone Hype

Ringtone Hype 12/11/2003 01:13 PM
I've written before about the wireless carriers' current obsession with ringtones. It appears to be a booming business, to the point that others are muscling in on the carrier's turf by offering "non-authorized" ringtones or even the ability to make your own ringtones (for a fee, of course). While it may be good money in the short run, I still don't see how it's sustainable. As mobile phone platforms are increasingly open and standardized, ringtones will go through the same Napsterization process, where many will be available for free. Meanwhile, I still don't understand what's wrong with the good, old-fashioned vibrate mode that doesn't bother anyone around you. However, the article does mention the growing popularity of the silent ringtone that we wrote about last week. Apparently, it costs $2. Incredible. We've reached the point where people are willing to pay to have their mobile phone not ring. Maybe the next step is letting people pay to have someone else's mobile phone not ring. "My goodness is your ringtone annoying. Here's $2. Go buy yourself a silent ringtone."

Hey, Ya... Nice Ringtone!

Hey, Ya... Nice Ringtone! 02/18/2004 02:52 PM
Long a hot item overseas, mobile ringtones are becoming a moneymaker in the States.

Ringtone Tools 2.11

Ringtone Tools 2.11 03/21/2003 07:01 AM
Tools for creating ringtones on mobile phones.

Ringtone Converter 4.4.3

Ringtone Converter 4.4.3 12/30/2003 04:01 PM
Easily create your own distinctive ringtone.

MP3-ringtone converter

MP3-ringtone converter 05/23/2004 06:25 AM
There's a new app that will convert your MP3 to ringtones and the music industry is freaking out (despite the fact that phones like the P800, which can play an MP3 without any conversion as a ringtone, have been around for at least a year)

``It's problematic, because it has the potential to eviscerate the business model early in its development,'' said Ted Cohen, EMI Music's senior vice president of digital development and distribution.

Link (Thanks, Tom!)

Ringtone chartshow to air on British TV
(FT.com)

Ringtone chartshow to air on British TV
(FT.com) 08/22/2004 03:50 PM
FT.com - A new weekly music television show that will showcase charts for mobile phone ringtones and music downloads is to be aired on ITV1 in a sign of the growing influence of both the mobile phone and the internet on music sales.

i need very much .please help me i can
not get able to download ringtone and
wallpapers

i need very much .please help me i can
not get able to download ringtone and
wallpapers 09/12/2004 05:49 PM
TechTree Sep 12 2004 8:51PM GMT

Can I Give Them a Special Ringtone?

Can I Give Them a Special Ringtone? 06/29/2004 12:57 AM

Mobile Gas Price Alerts

"In partnership with GasPriceWatch.com, Bonus Mobile will be offering up to date gas price information on over 100,000 stations nationwide. Local price information can be sent automatically to any cell phone subscriber in the United States, according to a company press release.

'The mobile phone will change the way gas will be sold in this country' said Brad Procter, Founder of GasPriceWatch.com. Mobile Gas Price Alerts will end the guessing game of knowing the best price for gasoline in your town', according to William Volk, CTO/Business Development of BonusMobile." [textually.org]

Nice! At work, Kate had the brilliant idea to add the GasPriceWatch alerts to our intranet.  :-)

Album gets ringtone only release

Album gets ringtone only release 04/30/2004 04:52 AM
A German band have released their new album as polyphonic ringtones, rather than as a CD.

Ringtone Tools Buffer Overflow

Ringtone Tools Buffer Overflow 12/22/2004 01:52 AM
Secunia Advisory: SA13547 Release Date: 2004-12-20 Critical: Moderately critical Impact: System access Where: From remote Solution Status: Unpatched Software: Ringtone Tools 2.x Qiao Zhang has reported a vulnerability in Ringtone Tools, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the “parse_emelody()” function. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted eMelody…

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Ringtone Tools 2.24 (Default branch)

Ringtone Tools 2.24 (Default branch) 04/07/2005 10:27 AM
Ringtone Tools is a set of tools for creating ringtones and logos on mobile phones.

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Changes:
The ability to read and write OTT files was added.

Zingy, BMG in Ringtone Deal (Reuters)

Zingy, BMG in Ringtone Deal (Reuters) 02/17/2004 07:56 PM
Reuters - Zingy, a wireless media company, on Tuesday said it had reached a deal to license and distribute music from BMG's music catalog as ringtones.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Album gets
ringtone only release

BBC NEWS | Technology | Album gets
ringtone only release 05/04/2004 03:51 AM
A German band called Supersmart have released an album only available on one format: ringtones .. Album Gets Ringtone OnlyRelease .. mobile phone ringtones .. BBC News 30 Apr 2004 .. BBC

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Boffin hits it big with breast-enlarging
ringtone

Boffin hits it big with breast-enlarging
ringtone 09/24/2004 11:45 AM
Dial M for mammaries

Rapper's New Single Features Ringtone
Innovation (Reuters)

Rapper's New Single Features Ringtone
Innovation (Reuters) 03/24/2005 08:32 AM
Reuters - The new CD single "Baby" from rapper Fabolous allows UK consumers to choose which part of the song they want to use as a mobile phone ringtone, a feature that Warner Music said on Thursday was a first for the industry.

Recording Industry's Next Trick?
Killing Ringtone Sales

Recording Industry's Next Trick?
Killing Ringtone Sales 05/25/2004 02:49 PM
It's like watching a bad movie over and over again, each time a somewhat promising market starts to open up for the recording industry, they all do their best to kill it. Earlier today we saw how they're looking to kill the promising market for immed iate live recordings of concerts, but now it looks like they may be killing off ringtones. For the last year or so, ringtones have been the surprising revenue generator for both mobile phone carriers and the recording industry, and despite plenty of warning and predictions that this market couldn't last, the recording industry isn't known for their ability to understand how technology changes will impact their business over time. Already we've seen applications like Xingtone take the industry by surprise by daring to let users make ringtones out of music they've legally purchased - and it won't be long until ringtones are easily downloadable directly to mobile phones via a Napster-like application (if it doesn't exist already). Still, the music industry sees money, and are increasing the royalty rates they charge for ringtones, making them more expensive. In fact, ringtones that are mere snippets of songs cost much more than actually downloading the full song from any of the various download music stores out there. Of course, all this will really do is drive more people to investigate alternatives like Xingtone, and make the "market" for selling ringtones disappear quite quickly. This was going to happen eventually no matter what, so maybe, by raising prices, the industry is just speeding up the process.

The Most Popular Music Ringtone Remains
The Telephone Ring Itself

The Most Popular Music Ringtone Remains
The Telephone Ring Itself 04/15/2005 04:34 AM
MatrixM.com, a leading mobile entertainment website, announced that the sound of an old telephone ringing is still the most popular choice of music ringtone in the world. MatrixM.com is uniquely positioned to back the claim, because it has the most eclectic ringtones catalogue world wide. [PRWEB Apr 15, 2005]

MyQPU Announces Partnership with Leading
Ringtone and Mobile Services Site
Ringingphone.com

MyQPU Announces Partnership with Leading
Ringtone and Mobile Services Site
Ringingphone.com 08/27/2004 01:50 PM
MyQPU, the leading Internet site for camera phone users, announced today a partnership with leading mobile phone ring-tone provider Ringingphone.com. MyQPU will be providing an on-line gallery to host camera-phone images submitted by Ringingphone members and will provide cross-network image sharing services for members of the Ringingphone community. Ringingphone members will also be able to download gallery images for use as wallpaper and enter the numerous camera phone photo contests currently available on the MyQPU website. [PRWEB Aug 27, 2004]

Mercury News | 05/17/2004 |
Do-it-yourself ringtone software
encroaching on potential profits, some
record labels say

Mercury News | 05/17/2004 |
Do-it-yourself ringtone software
encroaching on potential profits, some
record labels say 05/24/2004 04:32 AM
A indústria treme: já tem software pra converter mp3 em toque pro seu celular .. conversion of mp3 files to ringtones .. As seen here

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Electric Pocket Updates Ringo, Ringtone
Manager for Treo Smartphones, and
Announces New "Vocal" Caller ID

Electric Pocket Updates Ringo, Ringtone
Manager for Treo Smartphones, and
Announces New "Vocal" Caller ID 03/22/2005 03:16 PM
Electric Pocket's Ringo application, the best selling ringtone manager for palmOne's Treo-brand smartphones, has been updated with new features that allow users to more quickly identify incoming callers and customize their user experience with high-resolution icons that leverage the vibrant screens of Treo 650 smartphones. [PRWEB Mar 22, 2005]

HOTLINK FIRST TO LAUNCH CALLER RINGTONES
IN MALAYSIA Latest ringtone innovation
set to enhance mobile personalisation
and communication

HOTLINK FIRST TO LAUNCH CALLER RINGTONES
IN MALAYSIA Latest ringtone innovation
set to enhance mobile personalisation
and communication 07/23/2004 02:52 AM
Hotlink from Maxis Communications Berhad today unveiled Caller Ringtones, the industry’s first ‘ringback’ service that is set to capture a bigger slice of the thriving ringtone business. Caller Ringtones replaces the standard connecting tone callers conventionally hear on the phone with music and sound effects while they wait for their call to the Hotlink customer to be connected. With this service, callers can now be entertained as how call recipients have been kept amused via ringtones before the call gets picked up. The service, not unlike ringtones, is built on consumers’ increasing appetite for mobile personalisation and communication. [PRWEB Jul 23, 2004]

New choice for your VOIP ringtone:
Google Google!

New choice for your VOIP ringtone:
Google Google! 02/01/2005 09:09 PM
I missed this until I came across it a Susan Crawford's site, but apparently Google is starting up an Internet phone service. The TimesOnline article bases this on an employment ad looking for a “strategic negotiator” to help the company to provide a “global backbone network.” So, if Microsoft is trying to expand by getting Windows into our living rooms, perhaps Google is trying to get itself inserted wherever there's a telephone...including wifi phones, if bastards like Verizon let up their headlock on state legislatures. [Technorati tags: google voip]...

Boing Boing: MP3-ringtone converter

Boing Boing: MP3-ringtone converter 05/24/2004 11:26 PM
already phones on the market that can play MP3s .. Boing Boing: MP3-ringtone converter

boingboing.net/2004/05/23/mp3ringtone_converte.html
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IE To Block Pop-Ups

IE To Block Pop-Ups 11/10/2003 11:10 PM
smd4985 writes "Next year MS will release a XP service pack that enables IE to block pop-up ads. Only a few years late. Maybe Mozilla.org/Opera should patent ...

SML-Block-0.10

SML-Block-0.10 05/28/2004 11:14 AM

Chip off the block

Chip off the block 05/18/2004 02:56 PM
Cypress Semiconductor's outspoken CEO, T.J. Rodgers, sounds off on everything from stock options to Larry Ellison.

Writer's block

Writer's block 06/17/2004 08:32 AM
I am a grad student in English but my life is chaotic and I can't seem to get any writing done.

Not exactly lining up around the block

Not exactly lining up around the block 12/02/2003 01:24 AM
A scientist in North Carolina who says he's invented a surgical implant that can give women orgasms at the touch of a button has apparently run into a road block -- he can't seem to find enough women willing to test it for clinical trials. Read...

One Block Radius

One Block Radius 05/18/2004 09:12 PM
from the always-great glowlab

Chip Off the Old H&R Block

Chip Off the Old H&R Block 06/10/2004 09:27 AM
The tax prep specialist announces its seasonally strongest quarter.

5 Ways to Block Pop Ups

5 Ways to Block Pop Ups 12/29/2004 06:31 PM

Sex spam ads hit Web block

Sex spam ads hit Web block 12/30/2004 12:21 AM
New York Daily News Dec 30 2004 4:23AM GMT

Test-Block-0.05

Test-Block-0.05 04/13/2004 04:54 PM

Law less likely to block Gmail

Law less likely to block Gmail 05/26/2004 04:35 AM
ZDNet UK May 26 2004 8:20AM GMT

Do you block banner ads?

Do you block banner ads? 09/18/2004 05:21 PM
We here at MacMerc.com have a love/hate relationship with banner advertisements. On the one hand they are annoying--especially those "Click the monkey and win a prize" ones. But on the other hand, they help us pay our hosting fees.

Quite a while ago, as a public service to our readers, we posted an article on ad blocking and now that sufficient time has passed and our Google AdSense revenues are dwindling, we thought it might be the appropriate time to see if some method of ad blocking as become a standard part of your internet experience.

Poll out on us here-->

Cell block

Cell block 01/06/2005 08:01 PM
Fight the rising tide of jerkism.

Test-Block-0.06

Test-Block-0.06 04/16/2004 04:59 PM

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