All Posts Tagged With: "Ringtones"
Mosquito Devices Told To Buzz Off
A while back I wrote about Mosquito ringtones that most adults can’t hear, that kids were using in schools to receive calls and SMSs because their teachers couldn’t hear it. If you’ve never heard a Mosquito ringtone then there are some samples later on.
The ringtone is based upon the Mosquito device, that around 3,500 retailers [...]
Top Ten Valentines Ringtones
Remember Singtones? Well, they’ve pulled together a list of the top ten Valentine’s Day love songs using download data from the busiest week of Singtones’ year, as people across the UK record themselves singing love songs and send them to their lover’s mobile phone as a unique Valentine’s Day message.
I’m quite surprised that the [...]
Mobile Phones Are Killing Bees - Mankind Will Be Extinct In Four Years!
Now for something a little bit different. Some scientists believe that the radiation from mobile handsets is behind the fall in the number of bees, and that this is having a knock-on effect on world food supplies because bees are no longer pollinating crops. Albert Einstein once said that if all the bees [...]
19Apr2007 | Everton | 2 comments | ContinuedBlue Peter Added To List Of TV Shows Faking Phoneline Winners
I first read that Blue Peter, one the foundations of British Society has been implicated in the growing TV show fake phoneline scandal on The Register. At first I thought it was a spoof story, but it’s on the BBC so it must be true. Apparently a technical problem meant viewers calling for [...]
15Mar2007 | Everton | 0 comments | ContinuedMake Your Own Karaoke Ringtones
How cool is this?!! Singtones is a new service that let you record your own Karaoke ringtones to create your own personalized tones. The service lets you record your own vocal efforts over the top of popular songs. It features voice synchronisation and enhancing technology that is used in some of the top [...]
17Dec2006 | Everton | 10 comments | ContinuedSuccess Of Crazy Frog To Kill Ringtones Market?
It seems like consumers are finally catching on that it doesn’t make sense to pay over £2.50 for a 10 second ringtone that sometimes sounds nothing like the song in question, when you can purchase the complete track for half the cost on iTunes.
Questionable selling methods by companies like Jamba who own the rights to [...]
Only 5% Have Downloaded A Mobile Game
Textually.org reports that only 5% of people with cell phones have downloaded a mobile game. The survey of 2,500 cell phone users in the U.S., United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and Germany showed many people aren’t even aware their cell phones can play games.
At first I thought this was a bad figure and then I [...]
UK Top 40 Singles: Should it include ringtones as well?
I noticed two interesting stories today. The first one on the BBC stated that from Sunday the UK singles chart will include online downloads for the first time, which will have a major impact on the top 10. In the first three months of 2005, 4.5 million songs were downloaded legally in the [...]
12Apr2005 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
