Tag: RINGTONES

Hey, bro! While you're synergizing your backward overflow metrics into that PowerPoint presentation about headcount reduction, have you thought about changing your ringtone? It's sooo un-businesslike. If you're really a team player, we should get the ball rolling and pull the trigger on these sweet ringtones like "Trendy" and "Calm." Check out the video after the break, take an idea shower, and ...

According to a new study from McAfee, searching for "free" things online can significantly increase your chances of landing on a site with malicious software. In the report (PDF), McAfee addresses the "true cost of free entertainment," suggesting that searches for free music or ringtones can increase the chances of finding a malicious site by 300-percent, while searching for the lyrics of a ...

Rod Blagojevich is a national treasure. The former Illinois governor has amazed us with his headline grabbing corruptibility and shameless ploys for attention. But while we can kiss his priceless appearances on reality TV shows goodbye and as there will be no Tweeting from the courtroom, at least we can still revel in some of his more "colorful" golden quotes. The folks at the State ...

Allergy sufferers in Japan are turning to a rather unique cure: ringtones. The Japan Ringing Tone Laboratory is currently selling ringtones it bills as therapeutic, claiming that they can sooth a diverse set of maladies or provide a general boost, depending on a person's star sign. Matsumi Suzuki, a voice-print identification expert and creator of BowLingual (a dog bark translator), is the man ...

Remember back when you just couldn't escape that iconic Nokia ringtone? Not only were those descending triplets softly cascading out of everybody's pockets and purses, once you heard it, it was pretty well near impossible to erase from your brain. Now, in the smartphone era of BBM beeps and iPhone Marimbas, this catchiest of catchy ringtones has become more of a cultural relic than anything ...

When's the most embarrassing moment possible for your cell phone to ring? During a church service? How about a college lecture? A funeral, maybe? Nope, nope, and nope. Try being the poor sap whose phone not only rang, but quacked, during a recent press conference by President Obama. During a live broadcast of a speech about gay rights yesterday, a White House correspondent's cell phone quacked ...

In case you haven't heard, the country isn't exactly rolling in the money these days. Some fortunate Verizon customers in Florida might get an unexpected kickback, however, thanks to a court-ordered refund from the wireless provider after it falsely charged customers for products they didn't want. According to Broadband, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum reached an agreement with Verizon ...

We hate it when someone's cell phone blasts a popular song while we're eating in a restaurant or shopping at the grocery store. In our opinion, it's rude, tasteless, and annoying; just silence the phone, please. But a new claim by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) might make folks think twice about turning down that T.I. ringtone while in public. According to the ...

According to the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), a new study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology claims that ringtones can have a damaging effect for memory retention, especially in the classroom. Apparently, distractions, such as ringtones, can have the most impact on the memory during times when the mind is absorbing new information (during a class, business meeting, or ...

You know how Stewart Copeland plays that insanely slick triplet hi-hat part in "Message in a Bottle," and every time you hear it you wonder how it's possible for him to stay so perfectly in time? And you know how his drums fit so perfectly in the pocket with Sting and Andy Summers on pretty much anything The Police ever touched despite the fact they all hated each other? Well, Copeland's ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2008/07/10/buzzing-cell-phone-turns-out-to-be-live-bat-in-bra/?icid=100214839x1205420749x1200260097'; We've learned that cell phones ringing out loud can land you in trouble. For example, two Atlanta men were recently fined $200 because their mobiles spouted tunes in court, irritating the judge to the point of holding them in contempt. The answer? Set ...

Who knew? There's now a ringtone hierarchy! On the Ringtone A-list, a new feature on AT&T's Web site, you can find out what ringtones your favorite celebs are using. Then you can buy them! So who makes the cut onto the Ringtone A-list? As of now, Lupe Fiasco, Leona Lewis, most of the cast of 'The Hills,' and some people we've never heard of. And what tunes are they rocking? Lupe Fiasco ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2007/09/11/five-annoying-things-about-itunes-new-ringtone-service/'; Sometimes we just can't help it -- we have to try things out for ourselves. So when Apple launched its new ringtone service for iPhones today, we had to give it a spin. We're not usually advocates of buying ringtones (since just about every single smartphone in the Universe lets you use MP3 ...

Have you ever noticed which ring tones your friends have assigned to you when you call? Are they flattering ones, like Aerosmith's "Angel," or maybe something less desirable, like "Baby Got Back?" Wouldn't it be nice if you could choose the ring tone that played when you called your friends? If Emotive Communications gets its way, you'll be able to do just that with your cell phone in the not-too ...