Archive for June, 2010

  • Top 5 Ringtones for the Week

    Top 5 Ringtones for the Week

    Check out the 5 most popular ringtones this week for 5 ringtones websites: Mobile17’s Top 5 Ringtones for the Week 1. Not Afraid by Eminem 2. Find Your Love by Drake 3. OMG by Usher 4. Love the Way You Lie by Eminem 5. Dynamite by Taio Cruz

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  • Mobile entertainment gets big in Kenya

    Mobile entertainment gets big in Kenya

    These days, mobile content and media are everywhere. With modern mobile handsets becoming better and better at what they do – which is juggle tasks that we once upon a time required a landline or payphone and several notepads and day planners to manage by ourselves—more and more types of mobile content are created, supported and distributed via the growing number of channels to the also-growing market. The popularity of mobile content across market brackets and age groups is a true sign of the times, as we can see with each new ringtone promotion and each new mobile application that goes on sale.

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  • Show some pet love with your ringtone!

    Show some pet love with your ringtone!

    Mobile content has become established as a viable commodity all its own in recent years, particularly with the expansion of the smartphone generation of mobile handsets. These phones, which have grown to be much more flexible and capable than their forebears, have similarly emerged as a strong presence in the mobile field with their increasingly swift, multifunctional and useful hardware and software features. These features, in turn, allow more types of mobile content and distribution methods to be established. It’s no surprise, then, that the mobile content market has also been growing, as one can readily find in the practically regular updates and releases of mobile content news.

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  • Lawsuits against Apple and AT&T Because of Data Charges

    Lawsuits against Apple and AT&T Because of Data Charges

    IPad sales all over the world has been off the charts. People are craving for these kinds of changes in technology. Apple has always led the world in product features, even making Japan made phones like Panasonic and Sony seem like child’s toy. But recently Apple together with AT&T is currently facing a battle which may become a million dollar lawsuit. Both AT&T and Apple are being attacked by lawsuits claiming that customers were tricked into buying the latest gadget Apple has released: The iPad. The lawsuit claims that there was an unfair switching of the unlimited data plans to per-use-charging system.

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  • This Aria sounds good

    This Aria sounds good

    Mobile phones continue their odyssey of evolution, settling into their influential and ubiquitous roles in our lives with unabated ease. Whether because of their entertainment potential or their ability to make our work pursuits easier and more well-coordinated, mobile phones have firmly entrenched themselves as essential items that we must always have in hand or pocket [or, well, handbag]. They have been able to afford us the ability to call someone from halfway across the world at the touch of a button, call up obscure information courtesy of Web browsing on Google and/or Wikipedia, and even track the things that matter to us with a variety of news feed services and apps.

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  • LG Leaves an Imprint

    LG Leaves an Imprint

    “Ubiquitous” is probably as good a word as any to describe the modern mobile phone. With technology progressively dialing down the limits of what a mobile phone can do, and with society increasingly coming to rely on them for the various communication needs and situations that are mushrooming with each new societal shift, mobile phones are indeed seen and heard everywhere these days. They’re being carried around both by people who need their technological sophistication and capability for work and other serious pursuits, and by people who enjoy what this sophistication can bring them when it comes to entertainment and enjoyment.

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  • Be A Hero on your iPhone!

    Be A Hero on your iPhone!

    Mobile content is an ever-growing entity all its own nowadays, with multiple types of content spinning out of the core concept that people want things to do on their mobiles. These mobile handsets, for their part, are getting more and more functional and flexible, capable of storing and running new unfolding types of mobile content as they arrive. And arrive they do, as mobile content providers are busy working with giants of the recording and entertainment industries to create new mobile content to capitalize on the popularity of artists, albums, films, television shows and whatever new property is currently making the rounds.

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  • Top 5 Ringtones for the Week

    Top 5 Ringtones for the Week

    Bongotones’ Top 5 Ringtones for the Week 1. Down by Jay Sean 2. Lemonade by Gucci Mane 3. Your Love is My Drug by Kesha 4. Replay by IYAZ 5. Let’s Do It by Woka Flocka Flame

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  • The Father of Ringtones?

    The Father of Ringtones?

    The modern mobile media world is one of continuous expansion. Much like the universe itself, which after some time in a hot dense state exploded and started a chain reaction of expansion into galaxies, stars and planets that still haven’t stopped moving, the mobile media landscape of today is a product of various factors interacting to create an environment of unabated growth and continuous movement. Indeed, technology and society alike have all but conspired to make sure that mobile media – after it erupted into being when mobiles became all the rage – continues to grow and evolve as the years go by.

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  • Why you can now keep your phone on during a concert

    Why you can now keep your phone on during a concert

    Today’s mobile media landscape is one that continues to grow and evolve, as various factors like technology and society interact to create a shifting, rolling plain upon which the development of mobile media undulates. Technology keeps introducing new ways to compress music and voice into ever-shrinking files that maintain a faithful sound, while society keeps coming up with new acts and artists to make media of, mobile and otherwise. To that end, we have come up with various means to integrate music and other media into out mobile experience, and one of the foremost and most enduring ways has to be the mobile ringtone.

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  • A Remarq-able LG Release

    A Remarq-able LG Release

    Mobile phones have all but integrated themselves into our increasingly-busy lives as seamlessly as their bright touch screens flow into their sleek black or silver frames. With their myriad features that entertain and streamline, increasingly smart capabilities that fit well into virtually any context that cones up, and compact size and high portability, the mobile models of today are a far cry from the landline phones we’ve grown up with. They’re even a far cry from the mobile models of old, which typically boasted an almost single-minded focus on calls and a much larger body frame that made them more cumbersome than convenient.

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  • Touched by Samsung’s Messager

    Touched by Samsung’s Messager

    As we continue to move into an age where technological development is exponentially faster than it has ever been before, we acknowledge the fact that life in turn also moves faster than we have ever known it to. Our work has all but blended into our personal lives, and virtually every waking moment – the total number of which is fast outgrossing our total sleeping moments – is spent juggling elements of both, whether n the appropriate venues or on the ways to and from them. It’s no surprise then that one of the most important items to be carrying around is the mobile phone, which turns technology to our advantage in a way that we can immediately and fully realize and maximize.

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  • Are Ringtones Still a Good Business on Google?

    Are Ringtones Still a Good Business on Google?

    Is it still possible to make a good business for ringtones after its decrease in sales almost two years ago? Are there recent changes in Google’s AdWords which can affect mobile offers such as ringtones? With the changes that Google has implemented both big players and small players in the ringtone industry can’t help but gnash their teeth in dismay. Google always tries their best to protect the interest of their clients and at the same time the people who surf the net. AdWords such as “Free Ringtones” have to be evaluated and really has to be free and should not charge any customer for downloading the offered “free ringtone”.

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  • Top 5 Ringtones for the Week

    Top 5 Ringtones for the Week

    Check out the 5 most popular ringtones this week for 5 ringtones websites: Bongotones’ Top 5 Ringtones for the Week 1. Bad Romance by Lady Gaga 2. Best I Ever Had by Drake 3. Wasted by Lil Wayne 4. One Time by Justin Bieber 5. Baby by Justin Bieber feat. Ludacris

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  • Spotify hits Symbians

    Spotify hits Symbians

    Mobile phones and mobile content have gone hand in hand from the beginning. Since mobile phones first allowed us to take our calls and messages on the road with us wherever we go, mobile content has blossomed and accompanied those calls and messages, spicing up their arrival with ringtones that announce them as they are received. The expansion of mobile phone capability with each technological innovation has of course influenced the creation of new types of mobile content as well, with mobile apps and the like helping to usher in a new age of mobile content for the modern user.

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  • Return of the Peer-to-Peer Pioneers

    Return of the Peer-to-Peer Pioneers

    The music industry has undergone almost countless shifts over time in its efforts to stay relevant and profitable. Tides have ebbed and flowed, raising the status of some – artists, distribution methods and media formats alike – and lowering that of others, and even having them switch places every now and again. Different eras have thus been marked by the rise and fall of popular acts who represent the styles and flows of the time, as well as different types of media through which music is sold – the long-playing record gave way to the cassette, which gave way to the compact disc, which in turn birthed various types of disc-based media that paved the way for fully digital distribution.

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  • Warner Taps into Tapulous

    Warner Taps into Tapulous

    Mobile media changes with the times and rolls with the punches, ebbing and flowing like the best music. Society’s interests shift from time to time, and the mobile media industry has gone along with it to the best of its chimerical ability, bringing new properties to the fore and experimenting with new distribution methods and pricing structures to stay competitive and creative. The mobile media world and entertainment world have colluded to make this a continuing reality, with the entertainment industry providing the mobile media industry with plenty of artists, albums and songs to push as ringtones and various other types of mobile content.

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  • Get a Genoa

    Get a Genoa

    The way that mobile phones have revolutionized the way we communicate is no small feat. Through the seemingly simple shift of bringing communications on the road with us in a secure, flexible package, mobile phones have allowed us to break free of the confines of the home or office in the way we get things done. We can make and receive calls, send and receive messages, and even do research and consult references while we’re between engagements and away from brick-and-mortar buildings and the corresponding landlines. This wave of innovation has also brought entertainment to the fore, injecting new life into the chameleon-like industry and allowing various forms of mobile content to spread on the new smartphone platforms.

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  • This Pursuit isn’t trivial

    This Pursuit isn’t trivial

    Mobile phones have firmly entrenched themselves in the way we live our lives. Once upon a time, seemingly so long ago now, we got along perfectly fine just heading out of the house and being content with dealing with life’s little issues on our own and finding payphones and landlines for contacting the people we had to. Then, of course, mobile phones made their appearance and revolutionized the communications landscape – now, we can get clarifications, updates, and messages concerning the most important or most mundane things at the touch of a button, throwing wireless messages and calls into the ether and being assured of their arrival. Even information and entertainment have piggybacked onto this newly-portable way of doing things.

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  • The Ten Best-Selling Ringtones of All Time

    The Ten Best-Selling Ringtones of All Time

    Mobile content is currently still riding high on a cresting wave forged by both technology and entertainment, the fusion of which has created a number of profitable commodities that are essentially the gifts that keep on giving – to entertainment companies and mobile content providers alike, not to mention the makers of mobile phones that keep pushing the envelope as far as offering support for new types of content and new distribution channels. Full track downloads are in full force, as is the time-tested popularity of the mobile ringtone, which users are still keenly into using, whether paid for or created by bought or free mobile apps.

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  • Viva ringtones!

    Viva ringtones!

    The expansion of mobile content is hardly surprising at this stage, where mobile music and video have become all but commonplace on the increasingly-flexible and somewhat ubiquitous mobile phones that support them. However, it remains an interesting phenomenon to look at – considering the relatively slow pace of technological advancement at the turn of the previous century, or even halfway back – and an even more interesting one to be part of, as one can count on one’s favorite artist to have some sort of mobile content available, be it a ringtone or a full track for downloading and playing on today’s MP3-supporting, high-quality-playback smartphones.

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  • Thumbplay with your iPhone

    Thumbplay with your iPhone

    Mobile content has truly come into its own over the last several years, with several new types of mobile content emerging constantly and new items hitting via the various distribution methods daily. Yes, new content comes out at a pleasantly fast rate, turning the tide with each new artist and album that hits, and even movies and television properties have become prime bases for mobile content as far as promotions go. Media giants have incorporated mobile marketing as part of their typical marketing plan for whatever they’re pushing at the moment, and it’s been working well enough to keep them doing just that.

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  • Let them EnV the Touch

    Let them EnV the Touch

    Our concept of what it means to be mobile and modern continues to change almost with each passing day, even as technology and media conspire to keep our social consciousness moving forward with each shift in trends. In an age that seems like a long time ago now, mobile phones only made calls and took up the space that a small hardbound novel would, whereas now mobile phones take up a fifth or less of the space and accomplish about five times more than their predecessors did. Phones are getting faster, smarter and more versatile, all the better to keep up with their users.

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  • Samsung Goes Rogue

    Samsung Goes Rogue

    It’s difficult to tell when mobile phones will stop growing, although the easier and more logical response would be to assume they never really will. Mobile phones seem to have reached critical mass, with features becoming more integrated and more sophisticated with each generation’s release, but for all we know this is the same thought people had when things like text messaging and ringtone customization were first added to the then-call-and-ring-only mobile phones. Indeed, each new little thing will feel like the ultimate innovation, at least until the next one comes along and revolutionizes mobile phones anew. We should be so lucky.

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  • Ovi Store hits 1.7 million daily downloads

    Ovi Store hits 1.7 million daily downloads

    The current prominence being enjoyed by mobile media and content is a definite sign of the times. Technological evolution has allowed for mobile content developers and mobile phone manufacturers to work overtime to make both their ends conducive to this prominence and expansion. Indeed, the continued forward momentum of mobile phone technology development has allowed for greatly-improved mobile models, with greater capability and capacity and more intelligent hardware capable of handling and supporting more types of ever-evolving mobile content. At the same time, society never runs out of things to make mobile content out of, whether it’s wallpapers or themes or ringtones.

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