Wrestler ringtones

Hey, good news for all wrestling fans, who surely read this column, Bell Mobility and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) have just announced that it will bring wrestling fans an exclusive package including Superstar ringtones, screensavers and the downloadable Mobile Madness Hardcore game, all on the new "Inside the Ring" Audiovox CDM 8455 mobile phone. [Impact Wrestling]

On a related subject, sort of, this summer NTT DoCoMo announced a new service offering voices of sumo wrestling stars used as mobile phone ringtones.

Atlantic To Release Albums on Wireless Card

The Atlantic Group, the parent company of Time Warner labels such as Atlantic, Nonesuch and Lava, has teamed with Fearless Entertainment to release a compilation album in the MultiMedia Card (MMC) format for mobile phones, reports Yahoo via Moco News.

"Marketing and distribution partner Fearless Entertainment has developed a compilation of hit music on an MMC featuring select Atlantic and Lava recording artists.

Copies of this promotional MMC will be distributed as a Gift With Purchase for consumers who buy a Nokia 3300 beginning November 4, 2003.

The Nokia 3300 comes with a removable MMC that can hold approximately an hour of digital quality music, in addition to a full keypad for simple text messaging and the features associated with normal wireless service -- like making a voice call.

The promotion will be supported with a multi-million dollar advertising and marketing campaign."

BT Offers Ringtones for Mobiles from Public Internet Kiosks

BT has launched a new mobile phone service - BTRingtones - on its public Internet Kiosks, according to BT News Agency via Moco News

"Provided by Ringtones Online, the new service offers ringtones including polyphonic tones, as well as MMS backgrounds, logos, picture messages and Java games for mobile phone handsets.

BTRingtones is free to access from more than 1,400 BT Internet Kiosks across the country, bringing it within easy reach of those without the internet at home or work". 

Ringtonia Spammed or not?

Ringtonia is either plagued by a spammer (yet every e-mail is from a different person) who posts a request in the comment section, for an «A.R. Rahman» ringtone, hoping to boost ringtone sales, or, these are genuine requests for a very popular musician. I must get five such comments a day:

- plz send me airtel ringtone which composed by A.R.RAHMANA

- pls send me airtel ring tone which is composed by A.R Rahman my mobile no is ...

- plz send me airtel ringtone which composed by A.R.RAHMAN.my cell number ...

Anyway, I looked him up, he's often referred to as "the new millennium composer". First a keyboard player in classic orchestras, he was then part of local Indian rock bands (Roots, Magic and Nemesis Avenue) before he started to compose ad jingles. He also did a couple of film albums.

And just for the record, Ringtonia is not a ringtone provider, only a blog reporting about the ringtone industry.