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Smash Hits to Close - Mobile Phones Blamed
02.02.06 | Permalink | 3 CommentsUK publisher, EMAP, is to close its Smash Hits title after 28 years and is blaming mobile phones.
The magazine was the music and entertainment “must read” for generations of teens, but has now declined to 120,000 copies, hundreds of thousands less than in its 80’s peak.
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Orgasmatones Ready For Climax
07.04.05 | Permalink | 2 CommentsForget groantones — why let somebody else have all the fun when you can have your very own personalized “orgasmatone”?
The industrious Alfie Dennen and his team have put together recordings of women screaming the pleasures of the 500 most popular male names in the UK (complete with bow-chicka-bow-bow background music), seriously raising the stakes in [...]
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More DIY Ringtones
04.27.05 | Permalink | Comments OffI meant to post this last week, but it slipped through the cracks. Fortunately Matt Maier at MobilePlaya picked it up: Warp Records’s cool Bleep.com download store (which sells un-DRMed music) will let users choose snippets of songs from Bleep’s catalog and make their own ringtone.
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Content Providers, DRM, Ringtones, Stats
Loose Ends
04.25.05 | Permalink | Comments OffBits and pieces from last week, mostly:
- US mobile content rating system in the works: The trade group of US mobile operators wants to define a standardized content rating and filtering system, not only to make it that much more difficult for kids to see porn, but to also pave the way for them to [...]
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Capitol New Media VP on Cingular Deal
04.15.05 | Permalink | Comments OffMatt Maier has a great interview with Capitol Records’ VP of New Media (Ted Miko, who was involved in the “innovative” Cingular Sounds deal earlier this week) over at his equally great MobilePlaya mobile music and gaming blog.
Forget everything I said about the service being about promoting Capitol artists; it’s a total money-grab by Capitol, [...]
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Cingular: Promoting Music By Making You Pay For It
04.12.05 | Permalink | Comments OffUS operator Cingular has launched a new “innovative music program” that sees it releasing ringtones before they’re heard anywhere else, or simultaneously with their debut on radio. The company said this gives its users “a whole new way to enjoy music”, but more importantly, “the entertainment industry a powerful channel to reach tens of millions [...]
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Ringtones
Roxio To Retail Xingtone
03.30.05 | Permalink | Comments OffRoxio, the maker of popular CD-burning software, says it will distribute Xingtone’s DIY ringtone software at retail outlets. Xingtone lets users take audio files on their computers and turn them into ringtones — functionality record labels are beginning to include on CDs as well.
DIY ringtone software and services could put a dent in ringtone sales, [...]
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Ringtones
Hedgehog Ringtones
03.29.05 | Permalink | 6 CommentsFirst “moantones,” now “groantones.” Porn star Ron Jeremy is getting into mobile content, Ringtonia says. In addition to porn, he’ll be selling ringtones and all kinds of other stuff you’d be embarrassed to show in public. At least he’s got a cool icon, though.
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Ringtones
Bundling Custom Ringtones
03.23.05 | Permalink | Comments OffAtlantic Records UK says the new CD single from rapper Fabolous it released this week contains software that lets users choose any part of the song and download it to their mobile for use as a ringtune. Based on “MyTone” software from Bounce Technology, buyers put the CD in their computer, choose which part they [...]
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