(CNN)-- Every time her cell phone rings, Christy Harness thinks of her husband. The 34-year-old native of Jackson County, Georgia, set her ringtone to Sugarland's "All I Wanna Do," a song that, she ...

Ringtones have been around since the first telephones, and for the most part, they all sound rather similar — an electronic emulation of the ringing of bells that were connected to landline telephones ...

When a music ring tone goes off in a restaurant or during a company meeting, it's often heard by more than just the intended recipient. That's the question raised by the American Society of Composers, ...

Downloading popular songs to use as personal cell phone ring tones has turned into a $3 billion global industry. A growing revenue stream for songwriters and publishers, ring tones are now outselling ...

LOS ANGELES – Music market tracker Billboard said Tuesday it will start publishing a chart ranking master ringtones, the audio snippets derived from original studio recordings that are used to ...

In some parts of the world, ringtone sales are actually declining, and the former ringtone kings, like Jamba of Germany and Musiwave of France, are refocusing their businesses on other ways to ...

Just what are the worst phone tones and how much do they irritate you? As mobile phones become more and more advanced, it seems that the various ringtones and message alerts they come with get worse ...