By Xeni Jardin at 10:26 pm Thursday, Mar 6
Q&A
with Brad, continued. The recording industry will probably want
to do one of two things: buy this company or nuke them. How is Xingtone
different from
other
existing
customizable
ringtone
services?
Brad says they've developed technology that allows users to upload digital music onto mobile phones for the first time. Xingtone converts your MP3s to ringtones -- and could soon make today's robotic ringtones sound positively retro. Brad explains here:
audblog audio post,
pics,
Discuss
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By Xeni Jardin at 10:24 pm Thursday, Mar 6
I cornered
Brad Zutaut for the lowdown on his company's customized ringtone and display
service. Xingtone converts any sort of sound you can cram into an MP3 -- music you write yourself, the sound of your baby talking, or a popular music clip like the one he demonstrated tonight -- and plays that audio as a ringtone, along with related images
on your phone's screen.
audblog audio post, pics, Discuss
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By Xeni Jardin at 9:46 pm Thursday, Mar 6
Tonight in Los Angeles, I co-hosted a get-together for
[unwired],
a listserv and community of people who work in (or cover news about) wireless
technology. A couple dozen entrepreneurs,
technologists,
journalists, and others
gathered for drinks, hot geeky gossip, and live demos of new wireless technologies
at a little bar at the Omni Hotel downtown -- the only hotel in the
entire L.A. metropolitan area that offers 100% free WiFi to guests, patrons, and
anybody who just happens
to be stopping through. The hotel's Director of Operations claims that occupancy
rates have soared since the free wireless service was introduced, and told
us, "Our
guests who use WiFi would rather wait for an hour to have an overflowing toilet
fixed than wait an hour for an out-of-service WiFi connection to be fixed." Four
wireless points, installed in the maids' closets and in the elevator
shafts, power the 802.11b network that permeates the building and
surrounding grounds at killer speeds.
After a few rounds of mojitos and manhattans, everyone huddles around Brad
Zutaut, founder of Xingtone, for a
live demo of his company's technology. Read about it, and about the [unwired]
gathering tonight, in this
Reuters story published just a couple of hours ago. Join us at the event
by
listening to the audblog post phoned in from my mobile. Here, Brad is demoing
Xingtones live and answering questions from
the crowd.
audblog audio post, pics, Reuters news article, Discuss
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