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CAKEWALK INTEGRATES TONETHIS SDK FOR RINGTONE DELIVERY.
San Francisco, CA., Aug 28, 2005 - ToneThis has partnered with Cakewalk to enable ringtone editing and delivery from the Pyro music application. Pyro is an all-in-one suite to manage your music, print labels, burn DVDs and create ringtones. Raj Singh, ToneThis co-founder and President states, "Cakewalk is a great customer to demonstrate the ease-of-use and the power of the ToneThis SDKs. We're the only company offering SDKs for your desktop applications."
For more information, please see:
Axetopia
Musician News
TONETHIS ENABLES DEVIANT MOBILE.
San Francisco, CA., July 27, 2005 - ToneThis has partnered with DeviantArt to enable wallpaper delivery of the 10+ million pieces of original artwork available. DeviantArt is the leading art community on the web. Raj Singh, ToneThis co-founder and President states, "I'm excited to be powering mobile delivery for the leading personal art website. DeviantArt is our first SDK licensee - we're hoping to sign up a few more major customers in the coming months."
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Forbes
FOX
TONETHIS LAUNCHES RETAIL VERSION FOR GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION.
San Francisco, CA., June 6, 2005 - ToneThis has launched RingFactory, the retail brand for ToneThis to global retail outlets. Raj Singh, ToneThis co-founder and President states, "I'm excited to be partnered with RingFactory and their distribution relationship with Take Two Interactive (makers of Grand Theft Auto). With retail presence world-wide, ToneThis can get into the hands of more of our fans."
ToneThis/RingFactory will be available June 6, at a retail price of $19.99. See your local Walmart, CompUSA, BestBuy and others to purchase the retail version. The software will be available for Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP or Mac 10.2.8.
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Yahoo News
RingFactory Press Release
Chicago Sun Times
TONETHIS LOADS IMAGES ONTO CELLPHONES.
San Francisco, CA., Nov 22, 2004 - ToneThis has released version 2.2 adding support for images including Jpegs and Bitmaps to be delivered to the user's phone as wallpapers. Raj Singh, ToneThis's co-founder and President states "This is the first step in making ToneThis more than just a tool to send ringtones to your phone but a platform for delivering all sorts of content to your phone." This release also includes added device support.
TONETHIS LAUNCHES THE TONEBOARD 10.
San Francisco, CA., Nov 22, 2004 - ToneThis has launched the ToneBoard 10, a monthly board listing the top ringtone artists on the ToneThis network. Raj Singh, ToneThis's co-founder and President says "Given the thousands of ringtones sent via our product each month, ToneThis has been able to anonymously compile the hottest ringtone artists. We're hoping the ToneBoard 10 will serve as a bechmark for why more artists need to make their music proactively available for ringtones. What greater promotion is there?!"
The ToneBoard 10 unlike existing ringtone charts will focus on strictly "real music" ringtones versus the more traditional "polyphonic" ringtones. Raj Singh adds, "You really can't mix the two charts. What may sound good as "boing-bong" may not sound good when your listening to the real thing."
ToneThis hopes the ringtone charts will promote artists and increase adoption in addition to helping guage the ringtone music industry and as Raj Singh states "to have fun - ringtones are cool, what's your ringtone? I noticed our first wave of charts shows that hip-hop is the clear winner. Rock fans help me out here!".
TONETHIS 2.0 RELEASED.
San Francisco, CA., Oct 18, 2004 - ToneThis has released version 2.0 adding support for several Canadian carriers and the first desktop ringtone product to deliver to Verizon. This release also include numerous bug-fixes, imrpoved stability, a new UI and support for 10s of new phones.
TONETHIS LOADS MP3 ONTO CELLPHONES.
Los Angeles, CA., Nov 26, 2003 - ToneThis, a startup based in Los Angeles founded by four students, launched a service that allows customers to wirelessly transfer music, sound effects and voice from their desktop computers onto their cellphones.
Users can create their own cellphone content from their personal music collections, instead of choosing from a library of songs provided by the cellphone company. Instead of charging per download, the service offers unlimited use for a one-time fee of $14.95.
Traditional cellphone ringtones known as "Polyphonic ringtones" are not capable of playing voice or music and sound very computer-like / robotic. ToneThis targets next generation cellphones that support "PureVoice ringtones" that allow music, sound effects and voice to be a cellphone ringtone.
To protect against piracy, ToneThis only works between the user's desktop and a single telephone number. It also has users pledge to use only legally obtained material, such as a CD bought at a record store, although the company concedes its product could be misused by owners of pirated music.
The Recording Industry Association of America, which has led the fight against music piracy, says it considers copying legally obtained music for personal use on a cellphone to be legitimate, as long as the content isn't shared. The RIAA declined to comment on free ringtone-sharing services.
"What we're trying to do is give the user ultimate control of their phone - in this case it's their music, in the future it will include their photos," says Raj Singh, ToneThis's co-founder and president. "Most carriers are trying to figure out how to restrict the user's choice and regulate content through their networks - You can't blame them, cellphone ringtones made $17M for 2002 and IDC projects it will be a $400M market in 2005. We're coming in at the right time."
Initially, the ToneThis service will only work on a few advanced phone models on the Sprint PCS next-generation network. TJ Pannu, ToneThis's co-founder and CTO says "Sprint's open architecture allows users to access services like ToneThis, even when no formal deal is in place. I expect other carriers beyond Sprint will open up their networks, much the way Internet service providers have become conduits for outside traffic. What has been a series of closed networks is becoming more and more open. Carrier, content providers and phone makers appear to be on a collision course. Phone makers want to add more and more services; carriers want to make money on content flowing through their systems and content providers want to be compensated for their creativity."
About ToneThis
ToneThis (www.tonethis.com) is the result of a couple internet entrepreneurs frustrated with paying carriers and being limited to robotic ringtones. ToneThis was created to allow personal MP3 collections to become cellphone ringtones.