Rhino partners with Sprint to launch RockThePhone.com which offers over 100 ringtones from some of classic rock's greatest bands, including The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, ZZ Top, Ramones, and more. Wireless consumers nationwide can visit www.rockthephone.com for access to over 100 classic rock ringtones for $2.99 each. For a limited time, the website will offer a free ringtone of The Doo...

Verizon Wireless announced that 10 million subscribers have downloaded its V Cast Song ID mobile music discovery application, first introduced in mid-2007. Song ID enables consumers to identify a piece of music by capturing a 10-second sample via mobile handset and seconds later receiving title and artist information as well as corresponding download, ringtone and ringback offers--according to Ver...

Hay kids, let's do the show on a mobile phone! Budding entrepreneurs are to be encouraged to develop premium-rate content by the industry regulator, with free lesson plans and downloads from the Ministry of Sound to make ringtone creation part of the UK curriculum.…

According to the BBC, children in England and Wales are to be given lessons in how to avoid scams and hidden charges when downloading mobile phone ringtones. Industry watchdog Phonepay Plus is urging 4,300 secondary schools to join a scheme to raise awareness among pupils of the potential pitfalls. It has created a lesson on ringtones for the information and communication technology curriculum. Ph...

Back in August we told you about this. Now the results are in: NEW DELHI (AFP) - A media campaign featuring a mobile phone ringtone that sings “condom condom” has pushed up sale of the contraceptive by 85 million in six months, India’s AIDS control body said Friday. ADVERTISEMENT The campaign, which included television and radio advertisements, reached 150

Vringo has announced an agreement with Turkish mobile operator Avea to provide Turkey’s first video ringtone service. Touted as the world’s first carrier-led video ringtone subscription service, it allows Avea’s subscribers to grab Vringo’s video ringtone application and from there pick any of the more than 4,000 video ringtones. Vringo and Avea are launching the service

Today Sprint announced a new application for feature phones called ScanLife. The app allows users to scan 2D barcodes on products or marketing materials and be taken to a specific Web site, provided with a ringtone or screensaver download, ...

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Mobile entertainment firm Zed announced an agreement with Alltel Wireless to launch the RealTone JukeBox VIP Club, an exclusive subscription-based application featuring ringtones and related offers from all four major record labels at a discounted monthly price of $5.99. The RealTone JukeBox VIP Club ringtone portal is offered in conjunction with Alltel's new Connect Pack data package, and is...

If you can't appreciate the low-end with the elite, you'll probably find it impossible to respect Samsung's latest duo. The "classic" E1110 keeps it real simple with a 1.3-inch 128 x 128 resolution display, GSM 900 / 1,800 support, a 500 number contact book, MP3 ringtone compatibility, Bluetooth, 1.5MB of internal memory, USB 2.0 and a battery good for 8-hours of talk time (or 20 da...