October 28, 2006
Wikipedia on "Ringtone"
Just for the fun of it, I looked up "Ringtone" in Wikipedia. Here's what they say:
A ring tone is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming call. The term, however, is most often used to refer to the customisable sounds available on mobile phones. This facility was originally provided so that people would be able to determine when their phone was ringing when in the company of other mobile phone owners.
A phone only rings when a special "ringing signal" is sent to it. For regular telephones, the ringing signal is a 90-volt 20-hertz AC wave generated by the switch to which the telephone is connected. For mobile phones, the ringing signal is a specific radio-frequency signal.
On August 5, 2006, the BBC reported that "Free ringtones" was the eighth most likely search term to return links to malware.
Above cell phone image from www.easyringtonemaker.com
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