What were the top ringtones of the year, according to AT&T? A couple of rap tunes led the way: "Party Like a Rock Star" by Shop Boyz and Mims' "This Is Why I'm Hot." Mobile phone users also have a ...

In some parts of the world, ringtone sales are actually declining, and the former ringtone kings, like Jamba of Germany and Musiwave of France, are refocusing their businesses on other ways to ...

The story is the same in every class, lecture, or discussion section: A professor is interrupted by the flamboyant ring-tone rendition of a popular rap song and distracted students are momentarily ...

Cell phone ringtones have become a big business, but one unsettled legal question has been just how much money copyright owners should get paid for ringtones using their work. The answer: 24 cents, ...

Not content merely to conquer the film-music world, composer Hans Zimmer has now turned his attention to cell-phone ringtones. Chinese smartphone maker Oppo has unveiled its latest, the Find X3 Pro, ...

The ringtones that come preloaded on your phone get the job done of alerting you to incoming calls. But why settle for adequate when you can personalize your phone with the perfect ringtone? Android ...

Your phone’s ringtone can be a great way to express who you are and what you like. Well, if you’re a Pixel owner who likes jazz, then Google has something down the line that you might really enjoy.

Students shouldn’t be alarmed if they start hearing owl, whale or wolf calls around campus – it’s probably just a cell phone ringtone. Conservation biology doctoral candidate Jon Slaght, who studies ...

The New Yorker, which is apparently a magazine and not a sandwich, has an article on the history of cell phone ringtones, the little bits of MIDI and MP3 that accounted for four billion dollars in ...

Not content merely to conquer the film-music world, composer Hans Zimmer has now turned his attention to cell-phone ringtones. Chinese smartphone maker Oppo has unveiled its latest, the Find X3 Pro, ...