| Don't be fooled. That free ringtone comes at a high price | | Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 6:35:44 PM by Rose Martins | Every mobile phone company will offer a certain number of free ringtones. Nokia, Nextel Sprint, Verizon, Motorola, Cingular - they all offer some free ringtones with your new phone purchase.
These free ringtones are often common to most mobile phones and for anything funky, trendy or hot, one needs to download the ringtone off the internet to your mobile phone.
 The catch comes when downloading free ringtones off the internet. Many of the ringtone clubs will offer a free ringtone download, asking you to agree to their rules. And what are their rules? They reserve the right to then send you a certain number of ringtones per week, at a price.
And you've made a commitment to them by clicking on the "I agree to the terms and conditions" button. You can cancel this commitment to purchase these unwanted ringtones, but your phone must be polyphonic compatible, be Internet-enabled and have text messaging capability.
You must be the owner of the mobile phone and either be at least sixteen years old or have the permission of your parent or guardian. So beware and take care when downloading that "free" ringtone. Don't be fooled and caught unaware.
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| | | Piracy and the free download | | Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:14:08 AM by Rose Martins | | | The music industry has always experienced the problem of piracy, and the mobile ringtone industry is not exempt. The music industry is in an uproar about the number of illegitimate downloads are available, many for free. Mr Vipul Pradhan, Chief Executive Officer, Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL), reported to Business Line "Until now, the telecom industry has been legitimately paying for the music offered in the form of ringtones and caller tunes."
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| | | "The hills are alive with the sound of music" | | Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:10:40 AM by Rose Martins | | 
| | Is it the sound of music? The Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity website is offering free ringtones with a difference. The ringtones are of a woman singing a part of the nun's "Peach and All Good" theme song. According to the National Catholic Reporter, vocations promoter Sr Julie Ann Sheahan said "As consecrated women we are encouraged by our church to make known the beauty and truth of our lives through the marvels of technology,"
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| | | Free ringtones - the 'hip' of advertising. | | Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:05:01 AM by Rose Martins | | | Downloadables are the buzz word of the day. And with ringtones reaching unbelievable proportions, advertisers are recognizing opportunity. Some of the world's most prominent lifestyle brands like Harley-Davidson and Tag-Heuer, offer ringtones and wallpaper free of charge, and it seems that DaimlerChrysler is following suit. It's an effective medium of advertising that facilitates stronger consumer relationships. | |
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| | | Free New Year Ringtones Downloads from Nokia | | Posted Thursday, December 29, 2005 11:53:11 AM by Blog57 Team | | | Users of Nokia 6680 or 6230i devices are being offered a free New Years gift from Nokia UK | |
| | Users are invited to register in order to receive a free download of several applications which include: | |
| Cirqx,
Tunes Studio,Beach Race and Sensor | |
| Nokia is also offering up a number of downloads for all to enjoy this winter. Freebies include ringtones, real-tones, wall papers, animations, themes, and games. | ... |
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| | | Parents have cell phone options | | Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 2:55:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | Parents who do not wish to send their child to school with a regular cell phone have emergency options in the form of pre-programmed cell phones that contain parentally approved phone numbers.Nude photos In the wake of reports Thursday that middle school students at Castle Rock Middle School took nude photos of themselves then forwarded the photos to classmates via their cell phones, parents are probably wondering how to stay connected to their kids without the risk of children abusing the privilege of a cell phone. There are four popular kid-friendly cell phones on the market that allow parents to pre-program phone numbers that can be both dialed out and received.Schools reviewing phone policy These kid-friendly cell phones may be a parents best bet as school districts are currently re-evaluating whether to allow students in school with a normal cell phone.... | |
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| | | Romantic High Tech Valentine: Blue For Him, Pink For Her | | Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 12:54:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | Its lovely to see a couple wearing the same designed T-shirt on Valentine. Suddenly, I asked myself why we dont do that with our software. Sounds funny but absolutely possible, as we have many ways to reveal our heart, said Helen Le, Sales and Marketing Manager of Audio4fun.net. Following that idea, a special promotion campaign of Audio4fun.net was kicked off with fabulous gift ideas, free downloadable ringtones and heartfelt music E-card- All for this sweetest Valentine. Twin Diamonds for Married Couples is the package of two Diamond editions of AV Voice Changer Software, designed to honor the precious marriage with two add-on skins: Blue for Him and Pink for Her. With those voice changer softwares, married couples can refresh their days and make many self-created audio gifts.... | |
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| | | 2006 The Year in Jazz | | Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 2:58:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | In the jazz world, 2006 was a year that defied a tidy little description. There was much going on, including the continuing efforts to rebuild New Orleans from the tragic and deadly aftermath of August 2005's Hurricane Katrina. Support initiatives for Crescent City musicians and their unfathomable losses continued all year. There seemed to be some New Orleans presence at virtually every major jazz festival. While a lot of musicians still couldn't go home to New Orleans, they were ambassadors for their history-rich city... ambassadors who could be found touring all over the world. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival went on as scheduled in April and May, despite major logistical obstacles in and around the city. The festival did pare one day and one stage from its humongous schedule but reports from the Crescent City indicate the music was emotional and powerful.... | |
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| | | Search engine users are at risk of landing in unsafe sites: McAfee | | Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:00:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | SANTA CLARA, California: Internet security firm McAfee, Inc. says search engine users are at a considerable risk of visiting unsafe sites as the search engines do not have fool-proof systems to alert the users against such sites. The firm's McAfee Site Advisor carried out an investigation of five major U.S. search engines -- Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL and Ask -- as a follow-up of an earlier study in May and found that though the overall chance of clicking a risk site had declined by 12 per cent, users had clicked through to risky sites more than 268 million times each month. The investigation, conducted under the supervision of Ben Edelman, noted spyware researcher and an advisor to McAfee, broadly indicated that: -- all search engines returned some risky results. -- on average, 4.4 per cent of search results link to risky websites.... | |
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| | | Napster Mobile Launches Over-The-Air Music Service in Japan; Delivers Full- Length Downloads and Ringtones To NTT | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 2:55:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | Napster , the digital music pioneer, today announced the launch of Napster Mobile on iMode, NTT DoCoMo's mobile internet platform currently used by over 40 million of its over 52 million mobile subscribers across Japan. For a low monthly fee, DoCoMo customers can use Napster Mobile to access full-length songs and ringtones that can be delivered over-the-air (OTA), directly to their mobile handset for immediate listening and downloading. The launch of Napster Mobile's OTA music delivery service on iMode marks a significant expansion of the relationship between Napster and DoCoMo. The companies' relationship officially kicked-off last month when Napster and Tower Records Japan launched Napster Japan, the country's first PC-based music subscription service, which boasts compatibility with a wide variety of current and future DoCoMo mobile handsets.... | |
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| | | Bango Announces New Subscription Service for Mobile | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 7:02:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | Bango has launched a safe subscription service that gives mobile users worldwide another way to pay for content from ringtones and videos to news and blogs, on a daily, weekly, monthly, or annual basis. The new service allows consumers to sign up and manage their subscription accounts on the mobile internet. Bango ensures that consumers see the terms and conditions before confirmation of any payments so it's clear how much the service costs and the frequency of the payments. .... | |
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| | | The pop-rock revisionism of Rod Stewart and Barry Manilow | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 1:05:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | In the flush of youth, Rod Stewart and Barry Manilow would have laughed to think their careers would ever be linked. Back then the early 1970s Stewart was a rock kingpin strutting his rooster haircut in the Faces and scoring solo hits including Maggie May. Manilow, though a year younger than Stewart, was acting like rock never happened, arranging Andrews Sisters songs for Bette Midler and stepping toward easy-listening superstardom. Stewart surfed the wave of a counterculture going mainstream; Manilow aimed at a Middle America that viewed rock as a rip in the continuum from Nat King Cole to the Carpenters. But years gone by make friends of former ideological adversaries. Today, Stewart and Manilow are united in rewriting the musical and, by extension, cultural history of rock. Their latest releases share much beyond the tinted coifs, bad suit jackets and knowing smiles the singers wear in their cover portraits.... | |
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| | | Pantech to supply branded UMTS handsets for Orange France | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:58:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | Mobile operator Orange France has contracted Pantech, a Korean handset manufacturer, to supply it with branded UMTS phones. Pantech's first handset to be released will be the U4000, which features video telephony capability, a 1.3 megapixel camera and VGA camera, a 1.9 inch TFT screen, 72 polyphonic ringtones, Bluetooth compatibility, a micro SD card slot and an MP3 player. This is Pantech's first partnership with a Europe-based global mobile operator. With the signing of this deal, Pantech now provides its phones to the three biggest carriers in France, having secured agreements with SFR and Bouygues Telecom earlier this year. Pantech plans to accelerate its business in France, with the aim of becoming one of the top five mobile phone brands in France by the end of 2008.... | |
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| | | Can you hear me now? | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 7:04:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | I'm certainly not an uber-geek, but I spend a lot of time with computers and I teach a course about how computers and communications affect society, so in theory I should be an expert on things technological. But every once in a while there are hints of cracks in the facade. This year they've converged on a pervasive technology where I've clearly fallen way behind. In July there was a story of a guy cheating on his wife and trading hot text messages with his girlfriend via cell phone. He decided to upgrade and sold the old one (the phone, not the girlfriend) on eBay, where the buyer, who was doing a study about what information remains on secondhand cell phones, discovered the messages. One imagines that the guy might be a bit worried that his wife will find out.... | |
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| | | The Shins Recording Third Album | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:10:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | Having successfully changed all of our lives, indie pop juggernauts the Shins are hanging up their superhero capes and getting back to what they do best: making music. The band recently entered their home studio (located in frontman James Mercer's basement) with reliable producer Phil Ek, who manned the boards on 2003's Chutes Too Narrow. As of right now, very little progress has been made on their as-yet-untitled third album, with drum tracks being laid down this week, but Pitchfork will keep you updated on the status of what is likely to become the soundtrack to any number of 2006/2007 romantic comedies concerning quirky contemporary twentysomethings. The Shins will be leaving their subterranean lab only four times in the coming weeks, greeting the adoring public as the opening act for three White Stripes shows and as part of the massive Vegoose festival.... | |
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