With its Java Technology for the Wireless Industry ... Most of the download profits are from ring tones--song snippets that replace a phone's prepackaged ring. Artists received a record amount ...

With its Java Technology for the Wireless Industry ... Most of the download profits are from ring tones--song snippets that replace a phone's prepackaged ring. Artists received a record amount ...

The company, along with Java backers, is preparing a new release of its software for cell phones that it hopes will prevent a splintering of the market and stave off rivals such as Microsoft.

Ring tones are 15-second snippets from popular songs sold for about $1 each to ... answer to Sun Microsystems' software language, Java, which phone makers like Nokia and Motorola have been putting ...