Mobicious: One part iTunes, one part Google

Mobicious.com" - a name that came about by squeezing the words “ambitious,” “delicious” and “mobile” together - wants to make it easy for cell phone users to search for, download and rank the thousands of mobile services, ringtones, wallpapers of celebrities, weather alerts and video games. The Boston Herald reports.

"One part iTunes, one part Google, Mobicious.com" is planning a “soft” launch of its service this week.

By logging onto the company’s Web site" people can search for ringtones, wallpapers, streaming video, even horoscopes. Users can preview the content on the site and then have it sent directly to their phone. When a particular item, say a ringtone, costs money to download, Mobicious sends the user directly to that company’s own store.

The idea is to make finding and getting cell phone features easier."

On Nayio.com "humming search", if you can hum it, you can find it.

Taking music recognition technology one step further, Nayio.com has announced the launch of the first melody-based humming search, through a parnership with Napster.

"if you can hum it, you can find it."

Through a strategic partnership with Napster the digital music pioneer, the service cross-references the hummed melody with Napster’s massive library of more than three million songs and delivers a list of potential matches."

... Humming search is based on muGene, which extracts the melody and tempo of any given song. It is also the basis for providing visual displays of pitch and synchronized lyrics, as well as the pitch evaluation system that is used to score the user’s pitch accuracy. (The ability to sing in tune is a caveat for the accuracy of humming search results.)

Phonetically-Enabled Ringtone Search

Users can now locate their favourite ringtones with keywords related to a song or movie title, actor name, lyricist or music director, thanks to Indian Rediff Ringtone Search, reports the EFY Times.

"This search technology is enabled on a catalog of over 60,000 ringtones in Hindi (primarily Bollywood) and 15 other regional languages".

Search n Find Ringtones

Search n Find Ringtones is a search engine for mobile content, combining the databases of 4
major mobile content providers (MediaPlazza, Ringtonio.nl, MobileMoney, Multivea Mobile).

Related: - RingBits, a Ringtone search engine

RingBits, a Ringtone search engine

This is exactly what the mobile music world needed, a ringtone search engine, powered by Google.

It's name is Ringbits.com. Fabulous!

Thanks Mike!

What the Web needs: A ringtone search engine

From the daily requests I get in the comment section of Ringtonia, from viewers looking for specific ringtones, it's so obvious that what the Web needs is a ringtone search engine. Where anyone looking for a title of a song or an artist, a sound or a musique genre, would just type in the words and then be offered the opportunity to narrow down their search according to their phone model and operator. And have this service deliverable by text message as well.

The only tune search I ever heard of rendering querried titles by SMS, is Indian mobile operator Airtel's, Ring-N-Fun, but it's search-specific to the operator's tune data base. If anyone knows of another such service, let me know!