Tag archive: Ring

Occurring on Tuesday night during a performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony by the New York Philharmonic, a man's iPhone erupted in the familiar marimba ring tone during the closing moments of the performance. Seated in the first row of Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, the man with the ringing iPhone watched as conductor Alan Gilbert halted the orchestra, turned toward the direction of the ringing and asked audience… Read More

Five students at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute have cooked up a new way to interact with computers, which they’ve dubbed the MagicMouse. The mouse brings new meaning to “point and click” by allowing users to actually point at objects on a screen using their index finger and manipulate them, even in 3D, using only the motion of the finger. It works using a tiny ultrasonic transmitter that a user wears around… Read More

The major record labels are jumping on the ring tones bandwagon, a market segment that last year brought in $3.1 billion worldwide, according to mobile market research firm Consect. Warner Brothers Records has recently started running commercials on MTV and MTV2 for a set of voice-greeting ring tones recorded by members of the punk band Green Day. According to a New York Times article, executives in the music and cellular… Read More

The Russian extortion ring is accused of forcing online betting sites to pay them hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to protect them from “zombie” computers. The group threatened sports betting and gambling sites with crippling denial of service attacks, with the thought that it would be less expensive for the sites to pay the protection money than to have their operations stopped for a significant amount of time.… Read More

The worldwide sale of ring tones, which started as a marketing gimmick for music labels and mobile phone companies, is roughly equivalent to 10 percent of the $32.2 billion global music market. Replacing the standard phone ring with a few bars from Elvis or a favorite TV show was first popularized by tech-savvy teenagers in the late 1990s. The subsequent success of ring tones is a rare bit of good news for the music industry which has been… Read More

Quote from the review at eCoustics: “I had the opportunity to compare the Music Ring with Chang Lightspeed's CLS 9600 MK II power line filter which is priced the same as the MR1200. While the Chang did improve the sound of my system compared to the unfiltered AC coming out of my wall, it wasn't even in the same league as the Music Ring when you compare the overall improvement it made to the music I was so impressed with… Read More