Tokay grads have jubilant, yet bittersweet goodbye
Lodi News-Sentinel, CA - Jun 2, 2006... In the stands of the Grape Bowl, the buzz of cell phone ringtones added to the din as family members and friends darted around looking for their cheering ...

Free Cell Phone Ring Tones - Jingling Vibes For Any Occasion
LiveArticles.org, CA - May 22, 2006Apparently a lot as there are a bunch of websites using free cell phone ringtones as enticements to get people to buy their product, and other companies using ...

Eminem settles lawsuit over use of songs as ringtones
Lansing State Journal, MI - Jun 6, 2006... winning rapper Eminem's publishing companies have settled a lawsuit filed in what they said was an effort to illegally sell his songs as cell phone ringtones. ...

Pump PSU up
Patriot-News, PA - 17 hours ago... Ohio State. The song transcended the student section. People programmed it into their cell phone ringtones. Wide receiver Derrick ...

For teenyboppers, a new ringtone s within earshot
Afternoon Dispatch & Courier, India - Jun 15, 2006... teens. However, it is now being used by teens as mobile ringtones in college classrooms as adult teachers cannot use it. However ...

MonsterMob ousts chief executive
Reuters.uk, UK - Jun 13, 2006LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in mobile ringtones specialist MonsterMob fell 20 percent on Tuesday after it said it had asked chief executive and founder Martin ...

If there were no ringtones
LiveArticles.org, CA - May 20, 2006Mobile ringtones have risen from the most ordinary ringtones to a new level that sings state of the art sounds in digital quality. ...

Why the future is in South Korea
CNN Money - Jun 08 11:19 AM
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - I, for one, welcome our South Korean overlords.Save to My Web

9 Squared Exceeds 23 Million BREW(R) Mobile Application Downloads
[Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - May 31 10:55 AM
9 Squared, Inc., a MonsterMob Group Company and leading mobile media solutions company, today announced that its family of BREW applications has driven more than 23 million mobile content downloads since the company's first BREW application deployment in 2003.Save to My Web

V-ENABLE Leads Market with Newly-Awarded Patent for Mobile Voice Search Technology
ZDNet India - Jun 12 11:32 PM
V-ENABLE, Inc., the worldwide leader in delivering voice- and text-based (multi-modal) mobile search solutions, has been granted Patent #7,054,818 by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The grant, with 45 total claims approved, reinforces V-ENABLE's industry leadership; the company is the first in the mobile sector to receive a mobile voice search technology patent.Save to My Web

Nellymoser Names Mobile Entertainment and Music Expert Ralph Simon to Board of Directors
[Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Jun 13 5:59 AM
BOSTON----June 13, 2006--Nellymoser, providing the leading next-generation mobile media platform for creating, controlling and connecting rich media to consumers via mobile devices, proudly announces that Ralph Simon, mobile entertainment innovator and music industry veteran, has joined its board of directors.Save to My Web

Motorola and Sony Team Up to Offer Ad-hoc Wireless Video Surveillance
WebWire - Sony s IPELA Mesh-enabled security camera Provides Low Cost, Low Profile, Easily Deployable Video Solution to Cities Worldwide SINGAPORE, - As part of the collaboration efforts with Sony Broadcast and Professional Asia, Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT

'Treasure Hunters': With 'Da Vinci' in Mind, the Pursuit Begins
New York Times - Another extravagant adventure-quest show, this one involving extensive landscape pornography, an amazing race, presidential arcana and profound product placement, "Treasure Hunters" is too flimsy a pillar to help structure NBC's reality-television

Penguin Goes Mobile
Unstrung.com - A gaggle of big-name operators wants to bring a standardized Linux-based software system to the mobile world. The move could be more of a threat to Symbian Ltd. , in the low-to-medium end of the market, rather than high-end enterprise smartphones

Pitching your early stage technology company to tech titans
ZDNet Blogs - Pitching your early stage technology company to tech titans by ZDNet 's Donna Bogatin -- If you have a team and a dream and vision appeal, Gerard M. Mooney IBM CHQ, Marketing VP Corporate Strategy, Emerging Business Opportunities and Jim

Blue Frog Mobile Launches Technology Center in Philippines
dBusinessNews.com - Seattle - SEATTLE -- Blue Frog Mobile, Inc. , a leading mobile media and entertainment company, has established its Asian headquarters in Manila, Philippines. At this new location, Blue Frog Mobile will operate information services that are enabled

Emerson Names Randall Stephenson To Board Of Directors
dBusinessNews.com - ST. LOUIS -- Randall L. Stephenson, chief operating officer of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), has been named to Emerson's (NYSE:EMR) board of directors, it was announced today by David N. Farr, chairman, CEO and president.Mr. Stephenson is responsible for all

Log Off: Fast and Furious Media Changes
MediaPost - AS MARKETERS, WE MUST LOOK at the vast array of digital media choices as we plan and buy media. Each day, it seems, there are many new avenues to explore. The debate rages on about the viability of digital video programming made available to

'New Joc City' Has Scored The No 1 Spot On Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop
Top40-Charts - NEW YORK, NY (Atlantic Records) - Block Entertainment/Bad Boy South recording artist Yung Joc has scored the No 1 spot on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums charts with his debut set, "NEW JOC CITY." The album also debuted in the

V-ENABLE Receives First Patent for Mobile Voice Search
Wireless IQ - Jun 13 8:38 AM
The grant, with 45 total claims approved, makes the company the first in the mobile sector to receive a mobile voice search technology patent.Save to My Web

Traffix(TM) Announces Launch Of Q121.com
[Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Jun 12 5:00 AM
PEARL RIVER, N.Y.----June 12, 2006--Traffix, Inc. , a premier interactive media company, announced today the official launch of Q121.com , the newest property being offered by its mobile media unit, mxFocus.Save to My Web

RealTone JukeBox(TM) Wins 'Best Ringtone Application' Award at BREW 2006 Conference
[Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Jun 05 6:18 AM
9 Squared, Inc., a MonsterMob Group Company and leading mobile media solutions company, today announced that one of its BREW applications, RealTone JukeBox, has been honored by QUALCOMM Incorporated as the winner of the Best Ringtone Application category for the BREW Developer Awards.Save to My Web

Blue Frog Mobile Launches Technology Center in Philippines
dBusinessNews.com - Seattle - SEATTLE -- Blue Frog Mobile, Inc. , a leading mobile media and entertainment company, has established its Asian headquarters in Manila, Philippines. At this new location, Blue Frog Mobile will operate information services that are enabled

Thirty Seconds To Fame
BackStage.com - Eddie Steeples almost turned down his big break. The actor still remembers the day he received a phone call from a friend in casting, asking if he would come in and audition for a new OfficeMax spot. "She told me that they were having auditions for

Sprint Offers Family Locator Cell Phone Service
CRM Buyer - Parents can list up to four phone numbers upon activation of the locator service. For additional security, the system employs a safety word used by both parent and child to ensure that permissions have been granted by both parties. Parents can create

Jamster finds hope in Chinese piracy crackdown
Network World Fusion - Sales of pirated mobile downloads have slowed the growth of Jamster's business in China. "We have to fight here with our competitors basically having no interest in intellectual property and just using our content and selling that," said Markus

Singing-frog company happy for piracy crackdown
Computerworld - May 24, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- A promised crackdown on pirated mobile downloads will give mobile content provider Jamster a needed boost in China, the company's top executive said Wednesday. Sales of pirated mobile downloads have slowed the

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Look back for anger
BBC News - This week's number one single by Sandi Thom paints a wistful, nostalgic picture of the late-1960s and late-1970s. But what do today's twenty-somethings really know about these eras? "Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair, In '77 and

Racing Truth & Rumors
Sports Illustrated - Jun 13 7:51 AM
On Speed Channel's Inside Nextel Cup, Michael Waltrip said he would be making a sponsor announcement for the 2007 season for his Toyota team this weekend. Ken Schrader asked why not now [on the show], Waltrip said the paperwork isn't signed yet in which Schrader asked if there was a chance it wouldn't get signed; Waltrip just responded: "Domino's Delivers." -- jayski.comSave to My Web

Driving through barriers
Detroit News - Jun 14 12:58 AM
This is no midlife crisis.Save to My Web

Bobby Labonte to drive BHR Dodge in Michigan
Fox Sports - Jun 14 5:56 AM
Dodge Motorsports announced today that NASCAR Nextel Cup Driver Bobby Labonte will drive the No. 4 Dodge Motorsports Dodge in the Con-Way Freight 200 this Saturday at Michigan. It will be Labonte's first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series start since Atlanta last October, and will also mark the first time he has competed in a Dodge Ram.Save to My Web

Nothing Tops Basketball in North Carolina, but Cup Could Make a Dent
New York Times - Jun 13 7:40 PM
In the area known locally as the Triangle, which includes the madly competitive college communities of Raleigh (N.C. State), Durham (Duke) and Chapel Hill (Tar Heels), Atlantic Coast Conference basketball rules, and all other sports are left to battle for runner-up status.Save to My Web

Regional resort planned
Kane County Chronicle - If Joseph Buralli finally gets his way, Hoffman Estates will be home to a 525,000-square-foot resort hotel and water park by 2008. Buralli's Lakemoor-based development company, Waterpark H2otels USA, is in the process of acquiring a 22-acre site in

Everybody wants a RAZR
MobileMag - If you re in the market for a new mobile phone and spend all your time learning everything you can about the RAZR from Motorola, you are not alone. The Razr V3C is the most researched brand of new phones, according to web analysis firm ComScore

Motorola Announces Exclusive Agreement With David Beckham
MobileBurn - LIBERTYVILLE, Ill., June 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola (NYSE:MOT) has today announced the signing of the hottest property in professional football as a global brand ambassador. The three-year collaboration with David Beckham will kick-off

Motorola wins $19.3 million contract
Herald-Mail - The Washington County Commissioners unanimously awarded a $19.3 million contract to Motorola on Tuesday to install a new public safety radio system. The county says the system will significantly improve communication during emergencies. The contract

"Idol" Fans Let Their Fingers Do the Voting
Wireless Week - May 25, 2006... Unlike most music ringtones that take weeks or more to produce, the Idol ringtones became available within 24 hours of a live performance. ...

V-ENABLE Leads Market with Newly-Awarded Patent for Mobile Voice ...
ZDNetIndia, India - 13 hours ago... to end-users from their wireless carriers is accessible by both voice and text search, including -- but not limited to -- music, ringtones, movie listings ...

Lip Sync Your Little Heart Out with Cingular Promotion
ADOTAS, NY - May 16, 2006... deal to enhance youth engagement of Cingular s music platform, Cingular Sounds, which was constructed to provide downloadable music ringtones and content ...

Mobile music looks beyond ringtones
Washington Post, United States - May 15, 2006... record labels. Ringtones, once dismissed as nothing more than a passing fad, have become a $3 billion worldwide market. But it's ...

Motorola debuts with L6 for fashion lovers
Vanguard, Nigeria - Jun 11, 2006... video capture and playback, hands-free communications and integrated hands-free speaker, PoC for quick connections, MP3 and polyphonic ringtones with 22 KHz ...

Another online music service steps into the on-deck circle
Ars Technica, MA - 38 minutes ago... and promotion for certain EMI titles such as Nora Jones' four-year-old album "Come Away With Me," with links to purchase associated ringtones or downloads from ...

Drivers Upset After Another Gas Price Jump
WLNS - DETROIT Eminem's publishing companies have settled a lawsuit over what they said was an illegal attempt to sell his songs as cell phone ringtones. Representatives for the Grammy-winning rapper reached an undisclosed settlement with one of the five

Michael Jackson reaches refinancing deal
Antara Interactive - New York (ANTARA News) - Pop star Michael Jackson, in a bid to stave off insolvency, said on Thursday he has reached a deal to refinance more than $200 million in loans secured by his prized stake in the Beatles' song catalog. The loans, which

People in the news
St. Cloud Times - DETROIT City Councilwoman and former Motown star Martha Reeves has been a strong advocate of stricter housing code enforcement, but a newspaper says it discovered multiple violations at her own properties. Inspectors found 25 code violations at

Tokay grads have jubilant, yet bittersweet goodbye
Lodi News-Sentinel - As the sun set gently over Lodi, the Tokay High Class of 2006 bid a jubilant yet bittersweet farewell to their years of school. Thousands of well-wishers filled the Grape Bowl on Thursday night, armed with gold and purple balloons, bouquets of

How to Get Ahead in the Newsroom, Circa 2006
Editor & Publisher - May 25 8:01 PM
What does it take to advance your newspaper reporting or editing career? Well, the old stand-bys of talent and hard work still apply, and a bit of who-you-know thrown in can be helpful. But in these New Media days, there's more to it.Save to My Web

Rapper Eminem settles dispute with Colorado ring-tone firm
Rocky Mountain News - Jun 06 5:15 PM
Rapper Eminem has settled a dispute with a Parker company, Cellus USA, after his representatives sued to block the sale of his hit songs as cell-phone ringtones.Save to My Web

Eminem settles lawsuit over use of songs as ringtones
WOOD TV 8 - Jun 06 7:28 AM
DETROIT Eminem's publishing companies have settled a lawsuit over what they said was an illegal attempt to sell his songs as cell phone ringtones. Representatives...Save to My Web

Business news briefs
Lansing State Journal - Jun 07 1:08 AM
CHARLOTTE - Spartan Chassis Inc. will manufacture V-shaped hulls for 378 Iraqi light-armored vehicles.Save to My Web

Stewart survives 500-mile marathon at Pocono
ESPN.com - LONG POND, Pa. -- Tony Stewart is done talking about his injured shoulder. With Stewart's gutsy third-place finish in Sunday's Pocono 500, the defending NASCAR Nextel Cup champion showed he can drive as well with one bum shoulder as he can with two

Edwards Wins Federated Auto Parts 300
KSDK - GLADEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A year ago, Carl Edwards skipped the Busch race in Nashville because of a rain out, ruining his chances to win a series title. Edwards made up for it Saturday night with a dominating win in the Federated Auto Parts 300. He

Hamlin wins Pocono, moves into Chase
WBIR - Pole-sitter Denny Hamlin overcame a flat tire and a fall to 40th place to pick up his first NASCAR Nextel Cup victory in the Pocono 500. Hamlin is the second straight rookie winner of this race. Carl Edwards won last June in his first season on the

Rookie Hamlin wins at Pocono
Times Reporter - LONG POND, Pa. Denny Hamlin overcame a blown tire early and solidified his spot as NASCAR s top rookie, surging late to win his first career Nextel Cup race Sunday at Pocono Raceway. Hamlin held off the challengers including teammate Tony

Verizon responds to phone records complaint
Boston Globe, United States - May 19, 2006PORTLAND, Maine --Verizon phone company on Friday told the Maine Public Utilities Commission that it should dismiss a complaint seeking to find out if it is ...

Verizon Responds To Phone Records Complaint
WMTW, ME - May 20, 2006PORTLAND, Maine -- Verizon phone company has told the Maine Public Utilities Commission that it should dismiss a complaint seeking to find out if it is giving ...

Verizon Hit With $50 Million Lawsuit
ProgressiveU.org, CA - May 15, 2006... As a part of the snooping program, the government reportedly collects information every time a call is made on a Verizon phone line. ...