A friend -- I won't say who, to protect the guilty -- has his phone set to play the "X-Files" theme when his wife calls. Me, I picked the most annoying, obnoxious ring I could find -- something that ...

Whenever his cell phone rings, which is a lot, Delvon Murray, 18, hears "My Boo," the Alicia Keys-Usher duet. Whenever his girlfriend's cell phone rings, she hears "In Love Wit Chu" from hip-hop ...

Conventional gender roles might be passé with the younger generation, but Nicole Imasuen, a 21-year-old North Dakota State University student, gives male and female callers special treatments. When a ...

The story is the same in every class, lecture, or discussion section: A professor is interrupted by the flamboyant ring-tone rendition of a popular rap song and distracted students are momentarily ...

Catholic Church officials in Italy are taking a dim view of this inevitable development: the digitization and mobilization of “holy cards,” or pictures of saints. The cards, called santini, are a ...