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RING MY BELL.(development, marketing of musical ringtones for wireless telephones)
In 1997, your cell phone could make two kinds of sounds. It could "ring"--our anachronistic word for the electronic trill that phones produce when you receive a call--or it could play a single-line melody, like "Fur Elise." If you've ever heard a cell phone bleep out Beethoven without the harmony, you'll understand that this wasn't much of a choice. At about this time, Nokia, the Finnish cell-phone company, introduced "smart messaging," a protocol that allowed people to send text messages to one another over their phones, and Vesa-Matti Paananen, a Finnish computer programmer, realized that it would work equally well for transmitting bits of songs. Paananen developed ...
- United States: Verizon ties together FiOS and cell phones.
- News wire article from: TendersInfo August 22, 2009 700+ words
...WiFi, a feature supported by only a small number of Verizon cell phones. The news comes as mammoth telecom companies like Verizon...with Clearwire, and Verizon Wireless' TiVo application for cell phones. Indeed, just last month Verizon Wireless announced the...
- United States: Wi-Fi cell phones expected to double in two years.
- News wire article from: TendersInfo August 29, 2009 700+ words
Byline: datta003 Global shipments of Wi-Fi-enabled cell phones are expected to double between 2009 and 2011, at least partially...Fi capability by 2014. "A doubling of Wi-Fi enabled cell phones in two years is ridiculously high," Morgan said. "Wi...
- New Strategic Alliance to Build Wireless Marketplace Designed Specifically for...
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 24, 2002 700+ words
...Transactions Through Cell Phones Alliance Data Systems...consumers and their cell phones. The strategic alliance...phone users in the United States, mobile commerce is...Southeast Asia and the United States," said Shaul Shalev...
- Cutting edge: the Far East is way ahead of the United States in using home...
- Magazine article from: Builder Zurier, Steve January 1, 2006 700+ words
...big plasma-screen TVs, but the United States is still far behind the curve compared...on how the Japanese love their cell phones, but a really good example of...homevita at select communities in the United States, but the company wants to take...
- Survey confirms love-hate relationship with cell phones.(News)
- Magazine article from: RCR Wireless News March 21, 2005 700+ words
...drivers were using cell phones at the time of crashes...technology in the United States, the survey was...concerned that using cell phones made them vulnerable...and access in the United States, including cell phones, computers, personal...
- Cell phones and driving: how risky? (High-tech distraction?).
- Magazine article from: Consumers' Research Magazine Ropeik, David Gray, George January 1, 2003 700+ words
...you that drivers using cell phones are everywhere, you...of 2001, about 75% of cell phones in the United States were hand-held), or...600 deaths a year in the United States caused by cell phones and driving. (But the...
- Playboy graphics coming to U.S. cell phones. (News).
- Magazine article from: RCR Wireless News January 27, 2003 700+ words
...Finland Ltd. to bring Playboy Playmates graphics to cell phones in the United States. Nextones.com said the initial portfolio will...Playboy portfolio. The graphics can be downloaded to cell phones on a pay-per-download basis at www.GetYourOwnPhoneGirl...
- SPEEA Collects Used Cell Phones to Help Soldiers Call Home.
- Press release article from: Business Wire May 22, 2008 700+ words
...family at home." Used cell phones can be dropped off from...are collecting used cell phones at work. Working phones...average person in the United States replaces a cell phone every 16 months. Most cell phones are never recycled...