In that old battle of the wills between young people and their keepers, the young have found a new weapon that could change the balance of power on the cell phone front: a ring tone that many adults ...

Just go into a classroom, and ask the kids to play their ring tones at once, you'll hear complete chaos. But at Buljan Middle School in Roseville, cell phones can't be used, they're banned. I asked ...

Students are using a new ring tone to receive messages in class — and many teachers can't even hear the ring. Some students are downloading a ring tone off the Internet that is too high-pitched to be ...

When it came out in Britain in December, the Mosquito sound system was supposed to be the sonic equivalent of a "no loitering" sign. Its annoying, high-pitched sound -- which many adults can't hear ...

A ringtone does far more than alert a cell-phone owner to the dull fact that someone’s calling. Those sing-song notes send a loud and clear signal to everyone around you about who you are – or at ...

Already got a dozen Barack Obama headbands? It’s time for a new campaign accessory: Slate’s political ring tones. Get one of these clips, and you’ll hear John McCain say, “My friends,” every time you ...

Rapper Rick Ross' ringtone is now a blingtone. Ross received a plaque bearing a golden cell phone Wednesday when music industry officials honored 128 songs as the first batch of gold and platinum ...

Ah, Halloween. Nothing like literally ringing in the season with some dark and eerie “demon tones,” the ringtones that are “here to darken your Halloween.” “Open the gates of hell each time your phone ...

Rebecca May couldn’t resist. When she got her first cellphone about a decade ago, one of the first things she did was go to her service provider’s website and stock up on ringtones. “I think I ...