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Ring-tone Piracy Latest Trend In Asia
News Countries in Asia that ensure ring-tone vendors pay royalties include Japan, Korea, Singapore and Malaysia. Ring-tone piracy is deemed a civil liability in Singapore, which means copyright owners have to take their own legal action.
[August 28, 2003, 10:35]
Ring Tones Dial Up The Cash
News While there is a large grey market of ring-tone services that does not bring in money for rights holders, the report authors are confident about what's ahead. According to the report, factors which indicate a promising future for ring tone and...
[January 15, 2003, 14:18]
Mobiles Transform Into Mosquito Repellers
News The technology is going through the same metamorphosis as its cousin, the mobile-phone ring tone, which has been moving from conventional chirps to snippets of songs. A ringback tone is what people dialling a telephone number hear between the time...
[July 11, 2003, 10:14]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It would only take a minor tweak to a bat detector to make it go off in the presence of just such an inaudible ring tone. One fine example is the way children have taken a weapon aimed at controlling them - a near-ultrasonic tone inaudible to...
[June 16, 2006, 18:50]
A Democratic Mobile Revolution
News In the Philippines earlier this year, activists opposed to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo took a controversial.For more, click here.recording of the president talking to election officials and turned the recording into a ring tone.
[October 20, 2005, 20:00]
Bulldog Fixes Broadband Problems
Talkback When I ring 01634 ****** (my ported BT no) from my mobile I hear a ringing tone on the mobile but the landline does not ring? When I ring 01634 ****** from by mobile I hear a ringing tone but the landline still does not ring?
[July 4, 2005, 11:46]
Ring Tones Are The New Napster
News The ring-tone business is about to explode for agencies handling the rights for 80 percent of the music in the world. ASCAP, which sells the performance rights for hundreds of thousands of popular songs, has begun trying to weed out ring-tone...
[November 2, 2001, 9:34]
Open Standards For Digital Rights Management Enhances Paid Content Model
White Papers For example, a user can download a MIDI ring tone or game to his mobile for a day or a week, and be given the option to buy refreshed rights after his original rights have expired. DRM will prevent illegal distribution of media objects and provide...
[July 19, 2007, 0:00]
Mobile 365 & Twentieth Century Fox Invade The UK With 'AVP"
White Papers These exclusive images and ring tones were sold to operators or third-party users - such as ring tone and logo providers - or sent straight to the mobile phones of film fans. Mobile 365 created exclusive wallpaper and "alien" ring tones based on...
[May 16, 2006, 0:00]
Nokia Case Study: Musiwave
White Papers Developed with Nokia's Mobile Internet Toolkit 3.0, along with other technologies, Musiwave Music Channel allows users to read about and sample the latest music, send song extracts to friends with a personal message, or even turn the latest tune...
[August 6, 2007, 0:00]
Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) Case Study: MasterCard
White Papers Vindigo integrated MasterCard's ads into its popular WAP site powered by Zingy, enabling MasterCard to reach 18 - 24 year olds in an incredibly popular ring tone and wallpaper environment. The goals were to build awareness of MasterCard's Priceless...
[May 12, 2006, 0:00]
Tuesday
Blog The army of ring tone writers will soon cotton on to the advantages of the new medium, and compose longer, more involved and more satisfying works. Thus I predict the next big breakthrough in audio annunciation will be automatically updating ring...
[July 11, 2003, 15:06]
Tuesday
Blog No longer are you limited to irksome techno tunes picked out in bleepy-bleepy, but the whole corpus of music can be raided for your ring-tone needs. Lots of what the phone does is in XML files, just aching for a bit of text editing -- and here are...
[October 25, 2002, 18:27]
Sun Sees Automotive Side To Java
News Schwartz told the JavaOne crowd that in a meeting with an automobile company he had been discussing the $3.5bn market for ring-tone downloads for cellphones when a younger executive suggested: "We could make downloadable horn tones to an automobile.
[June 29, 2004, 8:50]
WAP Popularity Breaks Records
News The MDA said that game and ring-tone downloads have been a major contributor to WAP's resurgence, with sites that offer travel information also increasing in popularity. WAP and its WML language has found a niche in portal sites, built by network...
[March 8, 2004, 12:45]
Skype Strikes Deals With Music Publishers
News There are no plans for selling music online other than in the form of a ring tone. Skype, the free Internet calling service owned by eBay, has struck deals with three major music publishers to distribute hundreds of thousands of songs as ring tones.
[April 26, 2006, 12:45]
WAP Usage Doubles In 12 Months
News On the media side, music group Chrysalis is planning to launch a WAP service to exploit the growing market for ring-tone downloads in Western Europe, which it says was worth $1.1bn last year. Unlike Web surfers, who spend a lot of time surfing a...
[August 9, 2004, 16:40]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News Please leave a message at the tone. Please ring the following pager number," says the machine. I'll ring after lunch. So, for that matter, did the clock. See, this Windows thing is clever. It checks that the daylight savings date has arrived, and...
[April 4, 1998, 7:00]
News Burst: Nokia Mobile Phones To Sing EMI Hits
News In a deal announced Wednesday, Nokia phone users will soon be able to change their ring tone to a tune from EMI Music Publishing's catalogue. Yourmobile lets users download mobile phone ring tunes for free.
[August 31, 2000, 10:15]
Message Exploit Knocks Out GSM Mobile Phones
News The exploit -- which Web2Wap discoverd by chance -- takes the form of a special type of SMS (Short Messaging Service) called a Smart Message, which is usually used to send a new ring tone or logo to a phone.
[August 31, 2000, 8:19]
