Thomas Dolby

Thomas Dolby (born Thomas Morgan Robertson October 14, 1958) is a British musician. His father was a professor of history. The "Dolby" nickname comes from the name Dolby Laboratories, and was given to him by friends impressed with his studio tinkering. Dolby Laboratories was reportedly very displeased with Robertson using the company name as his own stage name and sued him, trying to stop him from using the name Dolby entirely. Eventually, they succeeded in restricting him from using the word Dolby in any other context other than with the name Thomas.

Branching Out

In 1993, Dolby established himself as a successful business entrepreneur after founding Beatnik Inc. (formerly Headspace), a technology company specializing in mobile phone digital audio formats, such as polyphonic ring tones for mobile phones. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0GTV/is_3_19/ai_84237143

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1993 - Beatnik Inc. - Mobile phone - Digital audio format - Polyphonic ring tone

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While still remaining on the company board, Dolby stepped down from his position as CEO of Beatnik to pursue other technologically innovative interests, such as founding Retro Ringtones LLC in 2002, which produces the RetroFolio(TM) ring tone asset management software suite for companies involved in the mobile phone ring tone business. At the second annual Mobile Music Awards, Miami, Florida in 2004 RetroFolio won best of Show and Best New Technology awards.

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CEO - Beatnik - Retro Ringtones LLC - 2002 - Ring tone - Mobile Music Awards

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Dolby's musical talents have also been put to use recently creating hundreds of digital polyphonic ring tones now found on mobile phones everywhere (including the polyphonic version of the infamous Nokia signature theme). He is often a major speaker at technology conferences such as Comdex, Websphere and Nokia.

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Digital - Polyphonic - Ring tone - Mobile phone - Nokia - Comdex - Websphere

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He has also worked as a producer and a soundtrack composer for both movies and video games.

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Producer - Soundtrack - Composer - Movies - Video games

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In July 1998, Thomas received a Lifetime Achievement in Internet Music award from Yahoo! Internet Life.

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Internet - Yahoo!

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