Global Market for Cellphone Ring Tones Is Shrinking
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After years of double-digit growth rates, the global ring tone market appears to have come to the end of its crescendo.
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Oh dear. Looks like so many people checked out the latest adult ringtones that the money people got scared. In Sex Drive Daily.
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Your mobile phone may be one of the last  spots around that&#39;s relatively free of advertising -- but not  for long.
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Mobile phone subscribers around the globe totaled nearly 1.5 billion by the middle of this year, about one quarter of the world's population, according to the International Telecommunication Union.
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The worldwide market for handheld devices saw its third successive quarter of year-over-year decline in the third quarter of 2004, according to a new report released by IDC.
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Not since the introduction of the cell phone has the plain old home phone been in for such upheaval. The device long used for landline calling, recording voice mails, and storing phone lists may find itself replaced.
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The global market for mobile telephones grew sharply in fourth quarter 2004, with sales up by 25 percent to a record 200 million units from the same period of 2003, but overall sector growth should slow in 2005, the research group Strategy Analytics reported.
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With the advent of smartphones and declining popularity of personal digital assistant (PDAs), IDC has reported a drastic fall in sales of PDAs worldwide with the industry recording a year-on-year fall for the third successive quarter.
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The mobile phone industry is turning its attention to the last untapped demographic - people over 65.
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More than a third of mobile phone  owners in China, the world's largest mobile market, use their  handsets to listen to music, more than in Britain or the United  States, a study showed.
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Those who don't mind carrying a paperweight already have plenty of options for "smart" phones that do more than just make calls. The rest of us are stuck with a sad compromise between size and function.
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GSM Association says data-roaming price cuts are already falling and that Commission regulation would stifle innovation.
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A growing number of people rely solely on cell phones to make and take calls, putting them out of reach of polling organizations trying to get a fix on the American electorate.
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InfoWorld - Mobile developers around the world are in an uproar over a change Vodafone has made in the U.K. that dramatically decreases the quality of their products and that they fear could prevent new and innovative mobile services from reaching the market.
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Revenue from its basic phone service is slipping as consumers make more cellular calls and experiment with upstart Internet-based phone providers.
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PhoneBites' cellular service inserts sound clips into conversations. Ridiculous? The same was said of the multibillion ring tone market.
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Volume of calls from public plummets in the wake of phone-in scandals.