Islamic Ringtones Get Thumbs Down
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Muslim clerics warn against using verses from the Koran "for entertainment." In Gear Factor.
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Ringtone Soup (www.ringtonesoup.com), an online community enabling consumers to create, share, and save free ringtones, announced today its new mobile (wireless application protocol, WAP) site providing access to free ringtones directly from a mobile phone or PDA.
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The inclusion of prayers calling for conversions has led to sharp criticism of the Vatican.
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As any cell-phone user knows, background noise, including traffic jams and bustling streets, can be a nuisance. The cacophony becomes even worse when the caller insists on yelling over the noise.
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The standard ringtones on cell phones aren't good enough for lots of people who spend a few dollars a pop to download song clips and other custom sounds to their devices. Now an Israeli startup bets it can add another layer: the video ringtone.
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Never mind the almost daily cease-fire announcements. The music played on the radio stations of Hamas and Fatah is a much better guide to war and peace.
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Public chatter on mobile phones is annoying--when other people use them. But how do we tackle the problem?
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Nokia has bowed out of the ringtone market following poor sales from its Club Nokia website. Its exit should also smooth relationships with mobile network operators which think that their hardware providers
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Rights campaigners protested Tuesday over a device used to disperse unruly young people by emitting a high-pitched noise which only they can hear.
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Western knockoffs and Islamic bling: Debunking some popular stereotypes of life in Iran.
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A Hindu wedding ceremony of 18 dogs has been called off in India after hard-line religious groups and animal rights activists said it was a mockery of the religion and cruel to the canines, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Taking a break from fiery sermons, Malaysiaâs fundamentalist Islamic opposition group enlisted rock singers to loosen up its image.
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A religious council last month condemned a treatise on how Muslims can integrate into non-Islamic nations.
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The government said yesterday it wants to unify the calls to prayer that blare separately from thousands of mosque loudspeakers in the capital, but the idea was criticized by many as un-Islamic.
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But other tracks are more profane, with lyrics about sex and everyday life that might offend a congregation. Because of that, some people in the gospel music are industry upset that &quot;The College Dropout&quot; was
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The jarring polychromatic din of ringing cell phones is increasingly being thwarted - from religious sanctuaries to India's parliament to Tokyo theaters and commuter trains - by devices originally developed to help security forces avert eavesdropping and thwart phone-triggered bombings.
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Comment is free: Peter Tatchell: Radio 1 needs to develop a consistent policy to cover all forms of bigoted language in song lyrics