BROWNSVILLE - A ringtone about deportation that Cingular Wireless LLC pulled for being "blatantly offensive" was satire and shouldn't be taken seriously, said the company that developed the lyrics.

Close your eyes and try to imagine the iPhone ringtone, and chances are, you’ll be able to, or at least you’ll recognize it once you hear it. The current iPhone ringtone — Reflection — was launched ...

The New Yorker, which is apparently a magazine and not a sandwich, has an article on the history of cell phone ringtones, the little bits of MIDI and MP3 that accounted for four billion dollars in ...

It wasn’t that long ago (at least, what’s a couple decades between friends?) when there was no higher form of phone personalization than the custom ringtone. Over the course of a few short years we ...

Amid the cacophony of cell phone ringtones these days, add these: the clickety-click-click of a rare Central American poison arrow dart frog, the howl of a Mexican gray wolf and the bellows of an ...