Every smartphone comes with a slate of built-in ringtones and alert sounds. But after a while, they can get annoying and confusing. Was that your phone ringing or the guy behind you in line at the ...

Getting custom ringtones isn’t as popular as it once was, but that’s likely because it’s easier than ever to find them. Surprisingly, the market for Android apps to find ringtones, notification tones, ...

Sprint is getting into the music distribution game today with the launch of its Sprint Music Plus service. Partnering with RealNetworks, the free Android application lets users manage their existing ...

One of the internet’s better-known ringtone archivists was barely alive to witness the golden age of his biggest hobby. The 20-year-old Scottish musician, who prefers to be known by his online handle ...

With the latest version of iTunes, Apple buried the interface for making ringtones on the Mac. It’s still possible but a lot more cumbersome to manage. A little-known secret is that you can actually ...

Cingular Wireless is now offering its users ringtones that are clips of actual recorded music by original artists from Universal Music Group, BMG, Sony Music and EMI. By Billboard Staff Cingular ...

Snoop Dogg, Ciara and UB40 have all topped the Telecom mobile ringtone and caller tune charts with more than 10,000 downloads each for Beautiful, 1,2 Step and Red Red Wine, making these some of the ...

Simply sign up to the US & Canadian companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Skype, the web-based telephony group bought by eBay last year, is to begin offering music ringtones from ...

Ringtones, those song snippets that announce incoming mobile-phone calls, are now making noise at the top of the pop charts and on the bottom line of multibillion-dollar businesses. Young cell-phone ...