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Psycho Teddy Ringtone
Free Psycho Teddy ringtones are available for a limited time only... He's a loveable bear... until his phone rings...
He's a pale imitation of Crazy Frog, by my books.
[via Sony BMG]
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Crazy frog millionaires invest in Facebook
The three brothers who coined millions from the Crazy Frog phenomenon have followed Microsoft in taking a stake in Facebook.
... The undisclosed personal stake they've taken in Facebook is aimed at helping it crack the German market, where it has yet to make a significant impact against local social networking rivals. The Wall Street Journal reckons they coughed between $10m and $15m.
[via The Register]
YouNeverCall offers $100 for the first Crazy Frog ring call from the moon
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YouNeverCall, the popular online cell phone superstore, today announced a $10,000 prize award for the first cell phone call placed from the moon.
This announcement follows on the coattails of Google's announcement of $20M in prize money for landing a craft on the moon by Dec. 31, 2014.
... In order to claim the $10,000 prize a cell phone call must be placed by a device or person present on the Moon's surface. This call must pass through a commercially available cellular phone to YouNeverCall's corporate headquarters in Los Angeles, CA.
Furthermore, the company is offering a $100 bounty to the first party who receives a cell phone call on the Moon that rings using the infamous Crazy Frog Ringtone.
[Press release via SMS Text News]
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YouNeverCall offers $10k for the first mobile call from the moon
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YouNeverCall, the popular online cell phone superstore, today announced a $10,000 prize award for the first cell phone call placed from the moon.
This announcement follows on the coattails of Google's announcement of $20M in prize money for landing a craft on the moon by Dec. 31, 2014.
... In order to claim the $10,000 prize a cell phone call must be placed by a device or person present on the Moon's surface. This call must pass through a commercially available cellular phone to YouNeverCall's corporate headquarters in Los Angeles, CA.
Furthermore, the company is offering a $100 bounty to the first party who receives a cell phone call on the Moon that rings using the infamous Crazy Frog Ringtone.
[Press release via SMS Text News]
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Crazy Frog Racer Video Game
Crazy Frog gets a videogame and as always, bad press: "Yet another cash-in on this unreasonably popular marketing icon and much like the Annoying Thing himself, Crazy Frog Racer is a stupid and shallow racer that is never entertaining and not worth your time."
[via Thunderbolt Games]
Coldplay's Chris Martin slams ringtone generation
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has hit out at the music industry, insisting "proper" music is no longer held in high regard.
The singer has criticised the trend for mobile phone ringtones of chart tunes, insisting it is killing the current music scene. He says, "All that matters in music today is that your song becomes a ringtone." [via Contact Music ]
Chris Martin has voices his ringtone rage before, but in a lighter way, when The Crazy Frog tune beat Coldplay to the No 1 spot in the charts. "The point is that little thing should have its legs chopped off. I'd like to eat them in a restaurant."
Crazy Frog ringtone requested at funeral
At one UK funeral service, the dearly departed went to meet his maker to the accompaniment of the Crazy Frog ringtone. Just one of the bizarre choices, in a round-up by The Sunday Mail, of music requested by grieving families.
This is the first for a funeral to the best of my knowledge. Once though (in 2003), as the organ player didn't make it to a wedding on time, the bride walked down the aisle to the ringtone, "Here comes the Bride" played from one of the guests' mobile phones'.
Nokia N80 As Recording Studio? First Ever Album Made on a Mobile.
After yesterday's news of a ringtone released as a record, today we get news of an album recorded entirely on a cell phone and released on the Internet.
Omri Levy's new EP "about:blank" is the first album to be recorded entirely onto a mobile phone. The album was recorded on a Nokia N80 handset, using an Alon MP3 dictaphone, according to Mobile Crunch.
"The release, “about:blank”, which is available via Omri blog is availble for free under a Creative Commons release."
Other related ringtone-release related firsts:
-- Planet Funk First band to release a single by phone (april 2006)
-- Chinese singer Long Pang Launches First ‘Mobile Album' In China (June 2005)
-- Crazy Frog Ringtone to be released as UK music single (February 2005)
-- "SUPER SMART" released its album "Panda Babies" as ringtones (April 2004)
-- Ricky Martin's Album Debuted on Cellphones in S Korea (June 2003)
-- Finnish band Nylon Beat, released first ringtone teaser a (March 2003)
Britain's mobile phone ringtone boom has come to an end
Britain's mobile phone ringtone boom has come to an end, at least that what a leading market research group, MusicAlly, and Universal Music are saying. The Telegraph reports.
"Industry watcher MusicAlly.c predicts that the ringtone market will shrink for the first time ever this year. It forecasts that within four years, turnover will be just £78m ($147m), less than half last year's total.
The research was borne out by comments yesterday from Universal Music UK, which admitted it had seen its first decline in revenue from ringtones over the past six months. Ringtone revenue growth had raised hopes both for mobile operators - struggling to make a return on investments in 3G - and for record companies, in their efforts to offset falling revenues caused by piracy.
Both Universal and MusicAlly said last year's controversy surrounding hidden subscription charges for certain ringtone services was partly to blame ."
... Steve Mayall, of MusicAlly, said another reason for the ringtone decline was the growing ease with which people could ''sideload" songs from a computer to a mobile at no cost."
Crazy Frog hops to No. 1 on Canadian charts
Crazy Frog is No. 1 on the album charts in Canada, reports Jam! Showbiz. Crazy Frog's "More Crazy Hits" debuted at No. 1 in the nation this week, racking up over 15,000 in sales, according to data compiled by Neilsen...
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Cell Phone Concert and Crazy Frog Look-Alike Contest
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-- Chicago Sinfonietta ringtone concert - The Chicago Sinfonietta's incorporating mobile ringtones into its performance, as part of their ongoing experiment in audience participation. Their new work is called "Concertino for Cell Phone and Orchestra" by David Baker.
-- Crazy Frog Look-Alike Contest - A japanes Crazy Frog look-alike contest - from Japan of all places. Check out the winner in a video on you tube.
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Crazy Frog Look-Alike Contest
A japanes Crazy Frog look-alike contest - from Japan of all places. Check out the winner in a video on you tube. [via digg].
Web Hosting company registers mosquitone.net and exploits teen buzz ringtone
More on Teen Buzz ringtone...
Utah based Web hosting company BlueHost.Com registered the domain name mosquitone.net on May 30th, opened a blog called Mosquitone and submitted an entry to digg which reads:
"If anyone remembers last years Crazy Frog ringtone, this year, the mosquitone, also known as the teen buzz will be number 1. I can just see how we are starting to get into the age of ultrasound wars!"
Yet strangely, the link to mosquitone.net, shows only a single "Hello World" entry. Just a traffic generating trick? For the record teenbuzz.com - which would have been more appropriate - is already taken (registered in 2005).
Hmm, I think "Mosquitone" would have been the perfect domain mosquito repellent ringtone which launched in 2003.
Teen Buzz Related articles:
-- Teen Buzz Ringtone to be made available by "Mosquito" manufacturer
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Teenager repellent turned into ringtone
In Ringtonia today. Techno-savvy pupils have recorded the ultra-high sound - audible only to under-20s - from the ultrasonic device called Mosquito onto their cell phones, and are now receiving calls and text messages in class - without teachers having the faintest idea of what is going on.
Other stories in Ringtonia.com today:
-- Countdown Ringtone - by rocket scientists
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Crazy Frog announces second LP and New Gadgets
New Album - Ringtone superstar Crazy Frog has announced a second long-player, with another host of mindblowing pop hits, reports Drowned in Sound.
"The album, entitled 'More Crazy Hits'will be released on June 26th and features the terrace anthem of the 2006 World Cup, We are the Champions.
New Gadgets - Gadget Candy reports on a new range of Crazy Frog-branded electronic games and gadgets which about to be unleashed, (unfortunately without linking either to their news source or Website where these gadgets can be found).
Crazy Frog goes World Cup
He's back! And just in time for the World Cup.
This time he is aligning himself with the hopes and dreams of all teams with his version of “We are the Champions“. Jamster is releasing brand new and exclusive Crazy Frog content including the realtone, the videotone and full track.
[via MocoNews]
Interesting stats from the Times Online
Interesting stats from the Times Online. -- The mobile phone music sector will be worth £6.1 billion in 2010, Informa Media and Telecoms predicts -- Phones accounted for nearly 40 per cent of international digital music sales last year -- Crazy Frog was Britain’s best-selling ringtone last year, generating revenues of £40 million -- The operator 3 sold one million song downloads accesible by both phone and PC at £1.50 each within four months -- Roaming data charges can force up the price of a £1.50 single track to £14 if downloaded in Spain -- In Japan, 99 per cent of digital music downloads are to mobile phones rather than to a computer
Crazy Frog Mic
Tech Digest spotted something very wonderful at London Toy Fair 2006, a
Crazy Frog karaoke mic from Nikko Toys, so "youngsters learn and perform a number of the Crazy Frog’s ‘hits’". That made my day.
[via Tech Digest]
Ringtone growth standstill blamed on Crazy Frog
The controversy over the mis-leading marketing of the Crazy Frog ringtone has badly damaged this formerly fast-growing segment of Britain’s mobile-phone market
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