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According to an article in Techworld, Microsoft and Vodafone have published a technical road map and a white paper as part of their effort to allow PC applications to take advantage of services offered on mobile network

Hundreds of UK consumers are sending in text messages to a specially developed Mookia phone that Greenpeace will deliver to Sainsbury's supermarket to draw attention to dairy cows being fed Genetically Modified maize, reports Mike Grenville for 160character

A new recommendation is added onto the list by Ohio's safety officials for kids "trick or treating" tonight, reports the Toledo Blad

After speed dating, now silent dating is all the rage in Britain - where singles converse with new partners through e-mail, hand written notes and text messaging, according to an article in The Mirro

Does any one know what's going on with favorite blog boingboin

Just as the $40 billion market for mobile-phone networks seems to be stabilizing, a new study says the industry may be facing a steep revenue decline because of the spread of cheap, more-efficient technology known as 3G, Thursday's Wall Street Journal reporte

The first scheme in the UK which allows drivers to pay for parking by mobile phone has been launched in Scotland, reports Ananov

If predictions hold true, millions of cell phones could wind up in landfills, leaking toxic metals and chemicals into the ground as soon as a new rule goes into affect, allowing users to change wireless companies without losing their phone number

The mobile games market will climb from $540 million this year to $

A collection of photos on Sidetalkin make fun of the new way of talking sideways on Nokia phones an

More toons for cell phone

More on cell phone etiquette basics, this time from Erica Hill for CN

A new TV format in the UK takes the distinctly unorthodox approach of trying to persuade viewers to switch to different channels, according to The Guardia

An insightful article written by Raid Qusti in Al Jazeerah, deplores changes in the Saudi society under the influence of capitalist culture, particularly in the behavior and habits of people during Ramada

The UK's general public can get details of food hazard warnings direct to their mobile phone every time they are issued, according to the Food Standard Agency via SMS: Business Gets the Message

Mobile users can subscribe to this free service by sending the text message "FSA" to number 078 664 28 26

The opponents of wireless local number portability are apparently not giving up, reports RCR Wireless News

"An amendment is being pushed in the

Vodafone UK has announced the launch of the Communications Support Directory via its Find & Seek servic

A Belgian couple are to get married by SMS because text messaging has played such a big part in their relationship, reports Ananov

USA Today has an entertaining article on how some professors are dealing with cell phones on campus and their ringing interruptions in their classroom

Some good news today! Analysts have raised their forecasts for worldwide cell phone sales in 2003, in another hopeful sign for the struggling industry, according to New

All telephone users with a regular fixed line can - as of yesterday - receive text messages from Vodafone Sweden's mobile customer

The number of text messages sent in the UK reached a record high last month, according to new figures, reported by Ananov

Apparently, Americans surveyed find it less offensive to talk on their cell phone from the restroom than from a movie hous

Some 78% of college students had a cell phone last spring, according to a study by market-research company Student Monito

As consumers will soon be allowed to keep their phone numbers when they change moible operators - the number portability rule goes into effect No

Interesting, from the WSJ on how the size of the Chinese cell phone market, based on the government's study of sales of chip cards, is probably not as large as reported, as mobile users own several chips for the same phon

A Connecticut resident deciding to put up a cellphone tower (as a paid service from the wireless phone company) that is about 10 stories tall in his backyard, irks neighbors, according to a story in the New York Time

Rafat Ali on Moco News via TheFeatur

Cingular Wireless released a statement late yesterday suggesting customers in Southern California limit calls to emergency/family contacts and use SMS to communicate to help free up the network for emergency workers, reports The Secto

Procter & Gamble will be launching an SMS marketing campaign (in London I think) for Ariel laundry detergen

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said New York City will try to root out cell phone dead spots - which could be dangerous because people might be unable to place 911 calls in certain areas - by asking people to report places where they can't get service, according to USA Toda

New Zealand electricity generator and retailer Meridian Energy may use text messages to keep customers informed of power black-outs, if electricity shortages return, according to Stuff: Infotech via SMS: Business Gets the Messag

The Maltese government yesterday unveiled an m-Government service through which people can receive information over their mobile phone regarding the direct deposit of social services, reports The Independan

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in

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The Oslo police in Norway have embarked on a unique way to reduce violence and are using SMS services to kick start its campaign, reports Mobile Commerce Worl

Cingular Wireless in

Well, the endorsing celebrities di

Carriers should consider deploying wireless instant messaging service, to boost SMS traffic and according to a report released by Datacomm Researc

This is weird: Vietnam's largest cellphone operator has had its network clogged up for 10 hours last wee

Companies in India have started taking SMS as a serious advetising tool: big multinationsl such as Smirnoff, Lufthansa, and Standard Chartered are now providing ad messages and services to their customers via SMS, according to Mid-Da

NTT DoCoMo and Sony have agreed to form a joint venture to develop new services based on mobile phones equipped with Sony's contactless IC Card technology, FeliCa, according to InfoSyn

A Malaysian regional experiment on reporting crime through SMS is to be expanded nationawide, according to Cellular New

Disney has tied up with mobile service company Index Corporation to bring its stable of characters to Chinese mobile users, according to a company statemen

In the "duh-research" category, marketers have finally figured out that mobile users don't like getting commercial messages in SMS, according to a New Media Age stor

Rafat Ali from moc

Teenagers crashing parties thanks to "swarming" and text messaging continues to be a problem in Australia (cf previous June entry Teenagers gatecrash thanks to SMS

Something to keep in mind, your cell phone could be used against you, not only in the case of something as serious or criminal as the following story, but in any kind of legal battl

Peter Royas on Gizmodo has a picture of what very may well be the new Nokia clamshell handset, dubbed the "Louis Vuitton" phone, mentioned earlie

Scientists say they are expecting a strong geomagnetic storm to hit Earth Friday -- and there could be some problems for electrical grids and satellite communication

Astronomers are notified by SMS of changes in the univers

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SMS catcher is a cool free downloadable application which allows a (French) PC user to select anything off his desktop (including a picture) and transforming it into a color logo that can be sent by SMS to a cell phon

Following Taro Matsumura's previous entry several days ago in Keitai Log reported in Textually, commenting on a special report which was published in NHK, on how Japanese parents struggle with wild children, Matsumura continues in a second entry by looking at the changes occuring in family communications due to the proliferation of cell phone

Advanced Info Service (AIS) is offering the latest surveillance camera technology for GSM-900 cellular phone users, as another step in the continuing spread of household wireless services, according to Thje Bankgok Pos

This tops most stories on cellphoning while drivin

Nokia is claiming that its new N-Gage device has sold some 400,000 units worldwide in its first two weeks on sal

Sony Entertainment Television in association with the Indian police, has launched a new interactive text messaging service on its reality show Crime Patro

KDI Japan has released a funky retro styled handset, the Infoba

In another example of business gets the message, record company giant BMG is offering retail partners a free text-message service with up-to-date sales information, reports Revolutio

NTT DoCoMo said that it is now developing anti-virus software in cooperation with a US Internet security service company Network Associate

Nokia will be presenting 3 new phone models at the Nokia Mobile Internet Conference in Nices next week, according to Reuter

As American casualties mount in Iraq, Pentagon officials are rushing new bomb- and sniper-detection equipment to the country in an effort to thwart attacks on troops, the military's top research scientist said yesterday, according to the Seattle Post Intelligence

Erotic pictures coming on a cell phone near you - not of women but of me

The Guardian has a (poor) review of a new play at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, entitled «Two Tracks and Text Me», by Sol

An appeals court on Wednesday sided with a federal judge who dismissed an $800-million lawsuit filed by a Maryland doctor who said his cell phone use caused his brain tumour, reports The Globe and Mai

Rebecca Fairley Raney for the New York Times reports on companies making navigation systems for cellphones, allowing drivers to dial up a computer which will give them direction

In article from the BBC, on a new permanent interactive exhibit entitled "Communicate!" opening Friday at the Edinburgh's Royal Museum, commemorating Alexander Graham Bell, one of the objects discribed caught my eye:

"A giant mobile phone keypad on the floor allows visitors to text using their feet and also a machine where people can practice the art of Morse cod

The cell phone industry on Wednesday is expected to announce its biggest recycling initiative — a move environmentalists say is an inadequate response to a growing problem, according to USA Toda

In an article adressing the concerns of senior citizens and cell phones, Katherine Meyer for the WSJ reports that people over 65 years old are largely ignored by youth-focused wireless carrier

In the UK, a mother-to-be won a High Court victory yesterday in her battle to remove a mobile phone mast which she fears could harm her family's health, reports The Independen

CNN is about to start using mobile phones to enable viewers to send in opinions and vote on questions using text messages, reports Cyberjournalis

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Sony is studying ways to let consumers use their cell phones to buy groceries at convenience stores, pick up the tab for lunch and pay train fares, the company said, reports Wire

Following today's post on Coca-Cola launching the first cross-carrier SMS campaign in the US, here comes another one (both campaigns are thanks to Mobile application company Mobliss

As one of the Official Partners at UEFA European Football Championships 2004, T-Mobile will be providing exclusive services and content to its customers in five European market

More than 20 international stars and a collection of homegrown artists will rock Green Point Stadium in South Africa next month for Nelson Mandela's international Aids awareness concert, reports Cape Argu

Online dating site Matc

Another one for SMS meets the Art

NextLabs has launched a tool to help web managers monitor Web defacement attacks (something that happened frequently last century

More than half of the thefts in South Africa are for cellphones, reports News2

Coke Music's "Decibel Central" Promotion claims to be the first-ever cross-carrier SMS campaign in the USA, where Coca-Cola consumers can redeem cap codes from 20-o

Latest figures released by China's Ministry of Information Industry show China has the world's largest mobile phone ownership with 206 million subscribers -- or 16 in every 100 people owning mobile phone

Fox Television is planning on offering a variety of “Simpsons”-themed wireless services, including ring tones, wallpapers and games, according to RCRNew

Dow Jones Newsires will launch a news service for delivery to wireless devices in Europe, in association with mobile technolgoy vendor Yellow Peppe

Oracle and Vodafone plan to announce Tuesday new software and commercial links that will allow customers to access corporate computer systems easily using their mobile phones and other wireless devices, according to the WS

According to this article in the BBC, quality of hearing on a cell phone is unrelated to the price of the handse

Rafat Ali for Moco News, has a roundup of mobile content deals that have been announced, coinciding with the CTIA event in Vega

"The PDA is dead," Mr Levin, head of phone software firm Symbia, told BBC News Onlin

Sanlam Life, the life assurance subsidiary of South African financial services group Sanlam Ltd, confirmed on Monday that about 350 people would lose their jobs as part of the group's restructuring process, reports the Mail and Guardian Onlin

Fastmobile, provider of the Faschat push-to-talk service for mobile phones, has extend its service to Nokias' N-Gage phone-gaming device, according to Telecom Pape

Police investigating the murder of two teenage friends who were gunned down outside a New Year party are turning to text messaging in the hunt for their killers, reports the BB

Telenor Mobile Interactive USA is a pioneer of premium text messaging in Americ

As phones continue to store more and more information, zoomable user interfaces can make it easy to manage all that data on a tiny screen, reports Jeff Goldman in TheFeatur

A 15-year-old girl was raped after meeting a man she first contacted through text messages on her mobile phone, according to it

This year for the first, the public will play a deciding role in the Senior Citizen's Awards since it was launched three years ago in Singapor

Telstra noted a surge in SMS messages and mobile phone calls when Rugby-loving Prince Harry took his seat next to Jayne Woodward, wife of England coach Clive, just before Saturday night's game at Perth's Subiaco Oval, according to The Ag

A mobile tracking system is set to cut passenger waiting times for London buses by stopping the 'bunching' pattern that sees several turning up at once and then a long gap until the next one, according to Silico

Mike Grenville for 160character

While voice remains phones' main attraction, data services such as picture and text messaging are becoming significant in the United States, according to Wire

Canadian scientists have developed a method of generating electricity from water for use in small devices, paving the way for devices such as water-powered mobile phone

In June, officials recommended states pass legislation banning the use of cell phones - hand-held and hands- free - by drivers younger than 21, reports Newsda

Beginning this NHL season, fans will be able to vote for game MVP's from the comfort of their couch, play NHL trivia wherever they are, chat about the latest trades and get last minute ticket alerts from their favorite team while out on the town -- all on their cell phone using a single shortcod

Taro Matsumura on Keitai Log comments on a special report which was published in NHK, on how Japanese parents struggle with wild childre

Twelve of the nation’s top wireless carriers have joined forces to launch a common short codes, a service that will be commercially available next wee

In an article on Bolivian President Sanchez de Lozada's (forced) resignation today in Wired, credit given to his fall is attributed to "a Latin American trend of increasingly sophisticated indigenous movements, who organize themselves with cell phones and the Internet

A businessman received an SMS saying: "I can make your problems go away" from an official of the South African Revenue Services (Sars) in East Londo

Nokia has finally made an official statement on the tales of numerous explosions that have been spreading around the interne

Following an earlier story reported this week by CNN, on mobile virus threats, this time PCPro reports on predictions of viruses spreading on mobile phone

Douglas Rushkoff for TheFeatur

Finland has proposed a new law that would let parents track the movements of their young children via mobile phone, even without their consent, in a move that could set an EU benchmark in privacy and handset use, according to CN

A mural in Manila which memorializes the uprising and the importance of cell phones in sparking the popular revol

SMS: Business Gets the Messsage reports on an evangelistic operation by mobile operator 02 called «Teach To Text

The New York Times has teamed up with Vindigo to offer its news service through Verizon Wireless on the mobile phones, according to Rafat Ali on Moco New

According to Channel News Asia, a new SMS-based educational service has been launched to benefit SAT taker

Vodafone KK has announced the launch of Bow-Lingual Connect, available in December, a service that will be able convert dog barks into text messages and expressions as well as display pictures of the dog taken with the handset's built-in mobile camera phon

Would anyone know the breakdown of cell phone subscribers per US mobile operators? AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Nextel, Cingular and Virgin Mobile USA? Thanks!Texting makes children fat

Text messaging has been blamed for being addictive, causing repetitive stress injury and leading to sex disease

Elizabeth Armstrong for The Christian Science Monitor, writes about Troy Johnson, a librarian in Omaha, e-mailing his fellow American librarians about the possible implementation of cell phone jammer

The universal appeal of games will be further fuelled by deepening penetration of more sophisticated handsets, propelling revenues in European mobile gaming market from just under US$80

Microsoft, previously thought to be finding the achievement of a million shipped phones somewhat challenging, already has 20 million and will shortly achieve 60 per cent of the marke

Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless are offering calling plans that allow customers to call from overseas without facing extra charges, in a bid to attract more business traveler

European mobile-phone companies are famous for making grand predictions of striking it rich on wireless-data services, then failing to delive

China's first manned space launch sparked an outpouring of nationalistic pride, according to The Straits Time

A very intersting video interview available on New

Growth in the

See My SMS, Paris based creative content company run by Alexandra de Waresquiel, in a fund raising event to benefit AIDS association, "Ensemble Contre le Sida" (United against AIDS), has launched a collection of images to be downloaded onto cell phones at a premium rat

Universal Domestic Television is jumping on the text messaging bandwagon with the launch of what it's calling the largest yet cross-carrier short messaging promotion in the

On Friday Cingular finally caught up to the other big GSM networks in the US and launched MMS services for all enabled handset

Mobile phone operators say it is only a matter of time before the wireless world is hit by the same sorts of viruses and worms that attack computer software, according to CNN who quotes consultancy firm Gartner's Nigel Deighton, and IBM's Chris Bray who were attending the ITU Telecom World conference in Geneva this wee

85 percent of the European mobile users indicates that price is the key reason to switch mobile operator, according to the Yankee Group, reports Telecom Pape

Following last week's story on Kyocera stopping shipment one of its Phantom models of cell phones after a US family reported the phone blew up, after investigating, Kyocera has resumed shipping, according to RCRNew

Mobile phone users in Qatar will now be able to receive breaking news as text messages on their handsets through Al Jazeera Mobile, a new service that was launched yesterda

Shipments of cellphones in Japan soared 25 percent in August from a year earlier as demand for third-generation services and a prolonged photo-phone boom prompted user upgrades, an industry body said on Tuesda

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's interactive installation, Amodal Suspension, will be presented by the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media from November 1st through the 24t

Muslim Faithful have used a short messaging service for years as a digital muezzin, texting them to prayer five times a day from the cellular towers instead of minaret

Another thing a cell phone is good fo

According to a new Scarborough study, there are great disparities between cities in the US with regard to cell phone penetratio

French equivalent of American Idol, Star Academy, seems to be multiplying the SMS options for the public, not just voting for a favorite candidate to stay o

The Internet Home Alliance (IHA) - a cross-industry network of leading companies advancing the home technology market - that include the likes of IBM, Microsoft, Sears, Sun, Cisco, Westinghouse, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, Motorola, Samsung, Sunbeam and Bell Canada - will be testing their first big experiment, Mealtime, this month in Bosto

A new wave of big-name retailers and banks are pushing into the British telecommunications market, in a move that could have reverberations for telephone companies around the world, according to the WS

NTT DoCoMo is negotiating with several companies to bring its i-mode mobile phone Internet service to Britain, DoCoMo's chief said on Monday at the ITU Telecom World exhibition in Geneva, according to The New York Time

Business Week has an article on what to fear most, after wireless spam: telemarketers calling your cell phon

Intel is coming out with a new chip package that will let cell phone makers put far more memory into handsets, a key ingredient for transforming phones into minicomputers, according to New

A new text messaging service in London tells you where to go for the nearest place serving good foo

Demonstrating the many uses of SMS, US network channel ABC employed the messaging service to have fans vote forward the sexiest male actor of soap opera 'All my Children', reports Infosync Worl

For those who missed this (important) entry in Ringtonia, Music giants Warner Music and Bertelsmann’s BMG introduced on Monday a new P2P anti-piracy technology enabling music fans to download songs onto a mobile phone and share the music with friend

A great roundup from MSNBC on cell phone sales worldwide, what's driving them, projections and forecast

Rising revenues generated by text messaging are one of the reasons that three Web service companies, NetEase, Soh

In India, virtual mobile dating is proving to be as appealing to subscribers as to mobile phone operators, reports the Economic Time

An interesting an thorough article from USA Today on walkie-talkie phones and the PTT war between carriers that has begun, the issues that will come up such as the nuisance factor (etiquette please) and interoperability between operator

Announced Monday at at the ITU Telecom 2003 conference in Geneva, Microsoft and Vodafone are joining forces to extend Web services standards to mobile devices, in an attempt to open up the potentially large and lucrative mobile network services market to Web services developers, according to New

"Sending photos and downloading video clips through mobile phones has been slow to take off, as penetration rates of multimedia handsets remain low, according to the WS

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The Dorset Police UK has launched a text-messaging service for young people in the tow

In one of South Korea's latest efforts to establish itself as a technology trendsetter, the country's three telecom giants, major credit card companies and several banks have been working for a year to enable Koreans to pay for everything from groceries to gasoline by cell phon

According to what can only be a press release on Mobile Mag, Sprint PC has annonced the launch of a new phone, "the size of an ice cream sandwich and sold with an optional strap, to be worn around the nec

Just one week after its introduction in Vienna on 1 October, m-parking has become the most popular m-commerce project in Austri

Fiercewireless picked up on a fascinating piece by Marketing Sherpa, on how Nokia's Consumer Marketing Manager Bridget Ahr went about geting the word out on Nokia's new 3650 phon

This is a very interesting and surprising report on the Japanese market, claiming that text messaging (SMS) is declining in favor of Multi Media Messaging (MMS

Faculty at the University of Colorado are being warned to look out for new, "high-tech" cheating methods, according to Boulder New

The UK motor industry can now carry out instant checks on the background of any vehicle by SMS, reports 160character

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Norway’s Consumer Ombudsman is in an uproar because sex hotline ads have been sent as text messages to cell phones, according to Nettavise

Anti-GM organisers are working frantically to create a groundswell of support in the lead-up to the end of the moratorium, on the release of genetically modified organisms in New Zealand, according to The New Zealand Heral

Kyocera Wireless has stopped shipping one of its Phantom models of cell phones after a US family reported the phone blew up, a company representative said Thursday, [ZDNet

Geneviève Bell, Intel researcher, has spent the past two years travelling in Asia, to study how people are using technology and has found vast differences between East and West when it comes to what people actually do with their computers and mobile phones, reports the BB

Every once in a while an accident happens, again, where someone is burned by their Nokia phone blowing up and once again, Nokia makes a statement, saying that it has to do with counterfeit batteries and that original batteries sold with its phones are saf

The FTC said Wednesday that consumers can register home or cell phone numbers with the free government service by visiting the Web site

The £400m adult mobile content market is in danger of being killed by operators' plans to force consumers to register to receive it, according to newmediazer

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The Wi-Fi Alliance has launched a cell phone service that enables users to use a WAP browser to locate their nearest Wi-Fi Hot Spot access points, according to Cellular New

"Teach UR Mum 2 Txt"' aims to make parents more text savvy and aid better communication with their childre

As reported last month, the sequence of events in the new UK soap opera called «InYrShoes», is decided by viewers through text messaging, with fans being able to keep up with the soap's development by SMS updates or through photostrip multimedia messages sent directly to their cell phone

Following up on the "compulsive text messaging on the rise" report from the The Priory clinic in south-west London, a casino news site waves a red flag on research drawing links between addictions such as gambling and drinking and other behavioral addictions, such as text messaging and Internet surfin

A new web and mobile phone service called ChildLocat

The MGAIN Consortium, funded by the European Commission has released a new report on mobile entertainment in Europ

In an initiative that is testing the balance between convenience and privacy, the nation's major wireless carriers are teaming up to put together a directory of wireless phone numbers that would allow customers to call 411 and connect to mobile phones, not just phones that plug into a wall, reports the Washington Pos

As the cell phone industry is looking into push-to-talk features for their new models, according to WSJ, sales of old fashion walkie-talkies are u

The Dutch consumer watchdog, Consumentenbond has written to Nokia asking the company to investigate claims that their handsets are exploding and injuring owner

The BBC reports on a new security service by a London based company called CCTVSafe, that hooks up cameras to the Internet and sends a text message to a mobile if something move

This is a fun article from the Mirror UK, listing some text messaging trivia, facts and figures:

-- The first text message was sent on December 3, 199

Nokia and international sports marketing company IMG/TWI teamed up to develop the Essential Sports Service to deliver sports images, news, updates and audio commentary to sports' fans mobile phone

Howard Rheingold in Smart Mobs reports on an interesting article on texting in the Phillipine

Indian cellcos Bharti Cellular, Essar Hutchison and Idea Cellular have partnered to allow MMS interoperability over each other's network

Another rescue story, thanks to SM

Four mobiles were discovered hidden by inmates at one of Britain's top security prisons, claims a report by the chief inspector of prisons on Belmarsh, in south-east London, according to the BB

Seven companies have come forward to apply for three new mobile licences in Switzerland, according to NZZ Onlin

A new Yankee Group report says between 20 and 40 percent of voice traffic in Europe originates on mobile networks, and that wireless revenue soon will overtake the total fixed switched-access marke

The BBC reports that the Iraqi Communications Ministry has awarded two-year GSM mobile phone network licences to Orascom Telecom, an Egyptian firm, and to Asia Cell and Atheertel, two Kuwaiti group

Wired writes about a new company called Celecast, offering a new service which will "broadcast" college football games over cell phone

Virgin Mobile Australia Introduces an Anti-hero Character to Advertise New Low Rate in Australi

3G Americas, a trade organization focused on the mobile industry in the Americas, has recommended a set of common elements for operators and vendors supporting MMS inter-carrier interoperability, according to Cellular New

Sony Ericsson has announced innovative, fun products to go with their mobile phone

This is kind of story intended for parents to stow away in the back of their minds as one more thing to be careful about with small childre

A new application from Agile Mobile for smartphones such as the Nokia 7650, 3650 and 6600, turns these into portable lie detector

Following a post October 2, Sprint Explores Walkie-Talkie Service, an article in Telecom Web reiterates that Sprint intends to launch its push-to-talk service before the end of this year's fourth quarte

Compulsive text messaging is the latest addiction sending sufferers rushing to The Priory clinic in south-west Londo

This Associated Press reported in August, than up to

There are forecast to be 16 million new mobile phone subscribers in 2003 and 13 million new subscribers in 2004 in the US, according to Merrill Lync

The Asian mobile subscriber base looks set to expand from 436 million in 2002 to 773 million in 2007, at a CAGR of 1

Internet messenger services, email, text and mobile phones are broadening children's social networks and making them virtually inseparable from one another, according to a new survey of internet attitudes by global research company RedSheriff, reports sm

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is preparing to launch a high-tech campaign in the forthcoming assembly elections in Rajasthan, India, according to the Hindustan Times, including devising slogans to be transmitted through SMS and e-mails in the run up to the election

Mobile phone users in the UK are sending an average eight text messages a day - or almost 250 a month, according to a new survey, reports Ananov

Cingular Wireless, the second-largest

The mobile industry is hoping mobiles will drive more women to gaming because they are easy to us

The WSJ quotes Gary Forsee, Sprint Cor

Tokyo Metropolitan Police said on Thursday they have detained a 45-year-old South Korean national, for allegedly deluging mobile phone users with more than 3 million e-mails touting his dating and adult entertainment website, reports News2

Mobile access to the internet has trebled in the last 12 months according to figures released today by the Mobile Data Association (MDA

Pit Schultz, one of the founders of has posted an article from the Sunday Times about the way pirate radio stations are using texting to maintain tight feedback loops with listener

In what sounds like a scoop, The Register reports on a GPRS scam called "the over-billing attac

Favorite company and global SMS provider Clickatell is sponsoring and presenting "the Mobile Application Developers workshop", to be held at Vodaworld, Midrand, South Africa, on October

On Tuesday Coca-Cola unveiled one of the world's biggest and most sophisticated billboards, switched on in Piccadilly Circus in the heart of Londo

Following yesterday's post on the Dutch study claiming the next generation of mobile services could cause health related problems, the world's mobile phone industry replied Wednesday that it was unclear whether the next generation of wireless phones can cause headaches and nausea among the public and "that similar studies would be needed to discover identical effects before the outcome can be accepted as fact

In what I think is a great application of SMS for the tourist business, Thai cellular provider Total Access Communication, is providing hotels with a service allowing hotel operators to send SMS to their guests, informing them of incoming calls and messages, instead of handing them notes manually or leaving messages on the voice mail service in their room

The Interior Ministry in collaboration with Oman Telecummunication Company sent text messages to citizens of Oman, urging them to turn out for the polls on October 4 and reminding women of their right to vot

As public concern grows over Pope John Paul II's health, the possibility of his death will set in motion a chain of Vatican rituals and procedures that -- with few variations and amendments -- have been in place for centurie

A new service for mobile phone operators could give children the power to stop unwanted text message from bullies, according to the BB

Nokia has jumped into the growing market of online distribution of ringtones, graphics and games downloads in India and is offering a choice of 120 games which can be downloaded at Rs 50 ($

Chandrababu Naidu, recognized as the hi-tech Chief Minister Of India, has hit upon a new idea to make sure his Legislative Members (MLAs) are in attendence, by summoning them to the Assembly by text message

Despite earlier assertions that eavesdropping on mobile phone conversations was technically impossible, the Ministry of Information and Communication of South Korea acknowledged yesterday it could be done and moved to protect consumers by cracking down on handset duplications, according to JoongAnd Dail

According to a study conducted by the Dutch government and technological research institute TNO, radio signals for the next generation of mobile phone services can cause headaches and nause

The recent appearance of the elephant-headed Hindi deity Ganesh using a mobile phone had caused outrage amongst Hindu

Deaf mobile phone users in Waltham Forest UK are being urged to come forward and take part in research on texting, according to the Walthan Forest Guardia