U.S. Ringtones Market Slow to Connect
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SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - With a possible billion-dollar  windfall at stake, U.S. music companies are eagerly awaiting  the full-blown development of the stateside ringtone market.
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Donât search your stocking for that rumored iPod phone among this yearâs Christmas booty. Selling songs over cellular is a heated market, but early adopters of music-over-mobile (MoM) will have to start with the basics.
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The European mobile phone games market   is coping with its first slowdown as telecoms carriers shift   advertising spending to mobile television or digital music, and   operators struggle to win new devotees.
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The Napster Mobile service will launch in the US and Canada in 2005 and will utilize a special Napster interface. Users will be able to download ringtones and earn credits redeemable on Napster PC-based service at the same time.
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'Dirty little secret' retains niche appeal 3GSM Ringtones and music will always take a bigger slice of the mobile content market than games or erotica, according to an adult content aggregator.â¦
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After years of double-digit growth rates, the global ring tone market appears to have come to the end of its crescendo.
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Thumbplay is now selling ringtones via music discovery company iLike's swelling Facebook application and iLike.com.
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Bidding stalled on Tuesday in the  closely watched auction of a piece of wireless airwaves that  the U.S. government is selling, according to data released by  the Federal Communications Commission.
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Third-party ringtone creators for the iPhone believe there's a viable market for their software.
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As the recording industry wakes up  from its summer slumber and starts thinking about what will  motivate the consumer for the holiday selling season, the major  labels are getting ready to launch the &quot;ringle,&quot; which combines  the mostly defunct single format with ringtones.
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Investor's Business Daily - Until recently, hearing aid wearers had to manually switch modes on their devices when they used a cell phone.
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In the midst of debates with his estate over charges of trademark infringement, Bob Marley's ringtones are again available from Verizon, enabling a veritable throng of users to finally be able to pick up their phones to the tune of "I Shot the Sheriff."
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Early this month, several Web sites began offering software promising ringtones and screensavers for certain cell phones. But those who downloaded the software found that it turned every icon on their cell phones' screens into a skull-and-crossbones and disabled their phones, so they could no longer send or receive text messages or access contact lists or calendars.
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Blog: Want to make that music track a ringtone? Get ready to spend $.99 all over again.
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Despite Apple's best efforts, hackers find ways to load custom ringtones onto the iPhone without buying them from the iTunes store. Though Apple updates its iTunes software to block loopholes, hackers stay one step ahead. Show us what you've got, in this How To Wiki for new and interesting hacks.
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Investors suffer when communications companies can't communicate.
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Online music retailer Napster announced its plans to enter the mobile ringtones market on Thursday. Napster, part of Roxio, Inc., said, it will partner with mobile content publisher Dwango Wireless to deliver ringtones to its mobile customers.