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Archive for August, 2009
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Verizon Wireless Will Pay $1.5M to Settle ‘Free’ Ringtones Issue
TALLAHASSEE, FL - Attorney General Bill McCollum announced his office has reached an agreement which resulted to a million dollar refund in the Florida area. Verizon and Alltel consumers will be given the settlement account of $1.5 million dollars to refund third-party charges on their phone bills. The Telco has also agreed to assume a series of "best practices" standards to help protect the consumers from third-party charges, including hidden charges for "free" ringtones. What happens is that cellular phone customers either didn't order these ringtones or didn't realize that there would be a monthly charge after the free trail period of the ringtones. -
Making the Most Out of your Ringtone Budget
Ring tones have been as popular for almost as long as the cell phones they are used on. Catering primarily to the user base’s individual tastes and styles, these sound clips have become favorite attachments for almost every mobile use – incoming voice calls, incoming text and multimedia messages, and even as ring back tones [...] -
Ringtone Downloads are the Latest Craze among the Youth
Technology has led our generation in an era full of options. Technology has touched the lives of both the old and the young. It is the youth who are more adept with the technology of today. The fast-paced update of technology also has left some of us behind. Every minute that passes by people are trying to invent new things for our latest needs. There are new updates and innovations with just a blink of an eye! -
The Ringtones of Tomorrow
Ringing tones have been part of telephone systems since the early days of telephone communication – hearkening back, perhaps, to the days of Morse code and the dash and dit sounds produced by those pioneering machines. Traditionally, ringing tones used to be limited to the actual ringing sounds incorporated into rotary and touch-tone telephones to [...] -
Verizon Gets Exclusive Rights to Pearl Jam Ringtones
Even though ringtone sales have been dropping drastically, Verizon Wireless continued to collaborate with Pearl Jam. They just have recently announced that they have exclusive rights to the ringtones of the band’s forthcoming album Backspacer. -
Personalizing Your Mobile Phones
In this busy and fast paced world, cell phones have become a very important part of our lives. Most of us can’t even get out of the house without a cell phone handy. A large number of cellular phones with different high technology applications from various service providers have become readily available for everyone. Some [...] -
Smartphone Sales in the US grew up to 47% in Q2
The NPD Group conducted a number of researches and according to their numbers Americans love smartphones. The NPD Group said that during the second quarter their surveys found that about there was a 28 percent jump of all sales in handsets in the United States. The survey comprised of more or less one hundred fifty thousand American respondents. There was a big 47 percent increase in smartphone sale comparing it to the same quarter last year. -
Sales of Ringtones Drop in 2008
Ring tone revenues in general seem to have been declining fairly steadily in recent years, spurred on by the availability of software that allowed consumers to create, customize and install their own tones, as well as handsets and hardware that made the installation process even more user-friendly. This would of course remove the need for purchasing the ready-made custom tones from the providers. As such, “sideloading” of entire tracks, as well as converted and clipped cuts from those tracks, as ring tones has become as increasingly popular as it is increasingly easy. -
Security Measure Backfires to Become a Ringtone for Cheating on Exams
The emergence of mobile phones and its perks has become more than just wireless communication in the fast paced society that we live in. Beyond its purpose to keep the world closer, interesting features and entertaining add-ons like cool ring tones make these gadgets at hype. In this generation, the need for the latest mobile [...] -
The Condom Ringtone
Picture this: It’s a beautiful Sunday afternoon. You’re sitting in a bus full of people and suddenly, your mobile phone goes off! Everyone around stares at you because your ringtone shrieks, “Condom, condom, condom!” The “condom, condom” ringtone is one of the most popular ringtones around the world with more than 700,000 downloads. It is [...] -
The Evolution of Ringtones
Through the years, we have watched mobile phones advance both in design and function. The continuous growth of the mobile phone industry gave birth to various technologies and brought about the advancement of multimedia products such as operator logos, wallpapers, MMS, and ringtones as an answer to the growing needs of the consumers. By definition, [...] -
An In-depth Look At Ring Tones
It is the sound or musical jingle that comes out of your phone when somebody calls you. A person’s choice of ring tone speaks a lot of the person’s personality as well as taste in music and phone type. For instances, there are cell phone models that can only play the same ring tone regardless [...] -
Polyphonic Ring Tones: Explained
Changes occurs every single everyday. This is so true in case of ring tones. Monophonic tones are replaced by Polyphonic Ring Tones. We can consider these unique types of ring tones as the immediate successor of older types of ring tones as well as the obvious predecessor of newer types of ring tones. The first [...] -
Choose Your Ringtone Wisely and Get Your Daily Dose of Music
In the quest of customizing your phone to match your personality, choosing a ring tone has become as crucial as selecting the handset itself whether to go flip-up, sliding, or customized faceplate. If you are a bit out-of the box and unconventional and you select a ring tone taken from the classics for instance, you [...]