Acting as 'gateway' to other content. By Antony Bruno The number of ringtones downloaded in the U.S. has quadrupled in the last year, according to a new report issued by research firm Ipsos-Insight.

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity is celebrating the 100,000th free download from its endangered species ringtone Web site, www.rareearthtones.org. In keeping with its rising ...

A new analyst report has predicted a shift in the mobile music market away from ringtones to full track downloads over the next five years, with revenues set to reach US$14bn during that time.

Steve Jobs is getting into the ringtones business, The Post has learned. Apple is in the midst of developing an offering with the major music labels to sell ringers to iPhone users via iTunes, ...

“iRingTones”, as we’ll call it, integrated ringtone downloads into the iTunes Music Store, and would have allowed users to remix ringtones before beaming them to the phone via Bluetooth. It was to be ...

Research has revealed that ringtones are slowly fading into obscurity. Data shows that downloads have fallen by a quarter in recent years – more than a decade after Crazy Frog made its Swedish creator ...

om 4 ringtones from Folgers commercials. Johnny Cash, Rockapella, Fiddler's Morning or Dancing Morning. You can play them first before you download. Go here to get ...

Slide back in time, if you will, to the year 2007. Musical ringtones resounded on cellphones, marking their owners' identities in public spaces. Little more than a decade later, these sonic signifiers ...

A new survey has found that ringtones are the most popular downloads among Irish mobile phone users. The Landsdowne Tracking Report found almost a third of all mobile users aged over 15 downloaded a ...

Back in the Stone Age - when record companies actually expected to sell millions of albums - they used to make it difficult for fans to buy just a piddling single. The age of iTunes killed that scheme ...

Yesterday, we noted that the music component of iTunes in the Cloud was rolling out to Japanese users, allowing them to freely download any music content previously purchased from the iTunes Store.