Those tunes that play while you wait for someone to pick up are expected to generate $4.7 billion in revenue for mobile operators by 2012, according to new research. Marguerite Reardon started as a ...

What's that? Not sure what they are? That's an obstacle... The growth of ringback tones in Europe is set to mean hundreds of millions of euros in extra revenues for mobile phone operators - but that ...

DENVER (Billboard) - As the cash cow that was the ringtones market slowly heads to pasture, the music industry is turning to a new mobile stud -- ringback tones. Sign up here. Ringbacks -- the music ...

The Open Mobile Alliance has begun work on a key standardization initiative, proposed by Comverse, to create a well-defined application programming interface between carriers and content providers.

Everybody is a lot more excited about these ringback tones than I expected. I’m sort of dreading them, myself, as I’ll now be forced to endure everyone’s humorous or nostalgic choices of music as I ...