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January 3, 2008

Companies Offer Music Phones With Copyrighted Music

Spreadtrum, Amoi, and Kuro jointly announced a solution for music phones offering copyrighted music in China, as Amoi unveiled its new music phones, A616 and A636. China Tech News reports.

"... Kuro is a music service provider legally authorized by most record companies for millions of online copyrighted songs, providing high quality music download services in China.

Through the cooperation, Spreadtrum has embedded Kuro's services into its chipset platform, so that the mobile phones equipped with Spreadtrum's chips can enable the functions of a multimedia player and online music download services."

January 1, 2008

Mobile ringtones using Holy Quran verses are banned in Saudi Arabia

holyquran.jpeg The Islamic Jurisprudence Council has banned the use of the verses of the Holy Quran as ringtones for mobile phones because it impinges on the sacred character of the the Holy Book, according to the Saudi Press Agency via the Khaleej Times.

“It is demeaning and degrading to the verses of the Holy Book to stop abruptly at the middle of a recitation or neglecting the recitation, as happens when they are used as ringtones in mobile phones. On the other hand, recording the verses from the Holy Quran in phone sets with the intention of recitation and listening is a virtuous act,” the scholars attending the council meeting in Makkah recently said in a statement.

During the six-day meeting, held under the chairmanship of Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz Al Asheikh, 70 Muslim dignitaries and scholars tackled a number of important issues."

Related:

-- Religious leaders squabble over Koran ringtones

-- Muslim clerics in India: No Quran verses as cell phone ringtone

-- Egypt's Mufti bans Qur'anic ringtones


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