SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2004 / 03

A university has appealed for grandparents to take party in a study about mobile phone texting, reports ic Southlondo

This year's Flora London Marathon will be the most IT-enabled race in the history of the event, reports vnune

Interesting, from Slashdot

"La^2 writes "The Austrian research company Salzburg Research did a field trial at the CeBIT 2004 that confirms the seriousness of the recently discovered bluetooth security loophole in the firmware of popular mobile phone

In what it said was a first for Europe, Spanish telecommunications operator Telefonica has unveiled a voice-activated mobile telephone for blind people, reports AF

This story is being picked up like wildfire - about a stolen GPS Siemens phone at CeBIT with new navigation technology - which enabled staffers to locate the phone and the thief [Engadget via InfoSync World]

Anil de Mello had the story last wee

Following Ringtonia's weekly listing of ringtone related domain names, here's a listing of SMS related domain names that have come up for sale and are available to the public agai

A weeklong anti-crime campaign will kick-off on April 3 in Abu Dhabi, requesting of the population to "extend their co-operation and support to the security agencies of the country in order to help the government combat crime for the national and public security", reports The Khaleej Time

This is the other article that made me wonder if it was an April Fool's joke or the real thin

This is the second article today where I have double checked the date to make sure it doesn't read April 1st - it doesn't, it's dated March 30, so I guess it's on the leve

Interesting insight on the Chinese cell phone market from Reuter

A Spanish citizen wrote this extraordinary letter to Tom Tomorrow about the Madrid train bombing of March 1

Mobile phone operator Orange has unveiled a UK cinema industry mobile ticketing service, reports vnune

Buongiorno Vitaminic, a European media company, will donate mobile products and revenue as well as provide interactive mobile technology and sponsorship for ‘Lovelife’, a program launched in 1999 to educate young people about preventing HIV infection in South Africa, according to a company press releas

Ouverture has launched a new mobile travel directory in the UK in partnership with Vodafone and Orange that will see sponsored search links displayed on their WAP portals Vodafone live! and Orange Worl

This is very interesting, Sri Lanka's political parties have turned to e-mail and text messaging for the first time because of a ban on publicity posters, the most prevalent publicity device in earlier election

Throwing Indian cellular phone users into a tizzy is an unidentified SMS claiming that a cellphone virus — ACE — is riding the airwaves and threatening to reduce destroy both cell phones and SIM cards, reports The Times of Indi

Belgium's Proximus has been hit by an SMS Spam hoax, reports Cellular New

Yet another article about SMS used by the Police, but from a business and technical approac

People in Norfolk will soon be able to text and e-mail minor crimes to police, reports EDP 2

The world's most famous steeplechase, The Grand National, will be held next Sunda

The parents of mobile-mad teenagers may soon be able to use the internet to curb their children's excessive texting and chatting - and the phone bills that go with it, reports sm

A new distribution stragegy for an album and a real first! A rock band says their new release - and all future releases - will only be available for purchase by text message - because CD prices are too hig

Todays' Romeos and Juliets are hiding behind mobile phone screens and talking with their thumbs, according to New

In the world of terrorism and counter-surveillance, the mobile phone has become an increasingly deadly weapon on both sides of the conflict, reports the Daily Time

Every government is trying to find new sources of income in these tough times, but the Philippines may be the first place to turn to text messaging, according to TheFeatur

More than 100 cellular phones will soon be distributed to domestic violence victims in the Bronx, allowing for women in danger to use the phones to call for help, thanks to Wireless Hopeline, Verizon's much written about community projec

The rise of China, which passed the

Fukuoka's Kyushu University Hospital says that it has started permitting patients to use their cellphones while in hospital, according to Cellular New

As of next Fall, Braintree College in North Essex, UK will use a customised group texting system to communbicate with its 1000 full-time students, according to Mike Grenville for 160character

Gerrit Visser for Smart Mobs reports on how cell phones represent a new frontier for newspapers in news delivery, promotions and contests, location-specific advertising, and customer interaction and data gatherin

Approximately 90 percent of mobile devices lack the protection to ward off hackers, according to Gartner via InfoSync Worl

FMH, a British men's monthly published by emap, is using mobile voting for the first time to garner votes for its 10th annual FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World feature, reports DMnew

A new guide, Developing the Multimedia Mobile Market, published by Netsize, outlines the regulations for running mobile marketing campaigns in 21 European countrie

In the Philippines, six media networks and technology firms have just formalized their partnership for multimedia coverage of the upcoming May 10 elections, reports Inq

A judge in the Italian city of Vicenza has banned two men who abused their ex-girlfriends by telephone and SMS messaging from using mobile phones again, according to evening daily Star of Mysore, ["Crank callers stripped of their mobiles" - March 26

Next Sunday's Turkish election results will be broadcasted by text messaging, reports Zaman Onlin

"Nokia launched a record 40 new mobile devices last year, and we expect to launch a similar number in 2004," Chief Executive Jorma Ollila told Nokia's annual general meeting, according to a company statement, reported by ZDNe

A new application from Royal Philips Electronics, Sony Cor

For the first time ever, wireless subscribers will be able to complete the same Los Angeles Times Crossword Puzzle that is in the newspaper, on their mobile phones, according to a Interactive entertainment mobile content provider Mobliss, in a company press release via Moco New

People magazineHello will enter the mobile market in the next two months, according to the company, which said it is currently holding talks with various unnamed mobile operators, reports Netimperativ

A division of Haier Group, a Chinese manufacturer that has burst onto the

I found this in The Guardian, great for anyone touring London:

Handheld History is a new service launching this Spring, which allows you to use your mobile phone to access history based on London’s famous Blue Plaque

In an article on rape drugs (Rohypnol and Progesterex) hitting Helderberg (South Africa) parties, this article gives good advice to teenagers the world over, as sometimes just being careful about "spiked" drinks is not enoug

Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates said the SMS mobile phone capabilities would be critical in communicating with athletes in case of a terrorist attack at the Greek Games, reports The Ag

Text messaging is helping schools improve attendance rates by almost 40% as truants find they are no match for the latest technology designed to catch them dodging lessons, reports icWale

The National Autistic Society in the UK today described an advertisement for mobile phone screen wallpapers, found likely to have caused "serious and widespread offence" to people with autism, as a "borderline criminal offence", reports The Guardian

"It featured an image of actor Dustin Hoffman from the film Rain Man - in which he played a man with autism - with the word "RETARD" stamped across the pictur

To promote its automotive Web site, Yahoo! and interactive shop R/GA have created a billboard that allows pedestrians to play a video game broadcast on part of the 23-stories-tall Reuters sign in Times Square here via their cell phones, reports Adwee

Mike Masnick for Techdirt reports that various big name brands such as Virgin, MSN and Sony to use SMS as a billing mechanism for content may run into some problem

Jamdat Mobile announced that they have signed a deal with Microsot Games Studios to bring a few popular Xbox titles to mobile devices, according to Mobilema

It is no secret that certain technological advances the Internet, e-mail, cell phones--are changing the conditions of the culture we live in, speeding it up and intensifying its complexity, reports Psychology Today, in an article representing the first analysis of responses to a study on shynes

A physicist who developed a technology-based system that famously beat the wheel in the 1970s has told New Scientist that "in theory, it would have been fairly easy to carry out the alleged high-tech roulette scam - that saw three people walk out of a London casino with £

Radical measures are being planned by the Australian State Government's Fines Payment Unit as the number of outstanding fines and penalties continues to spiral at the rate of almost $1 million a mont

Another cell phone while driving story, reported by the BBC, but this time not in a car or a taxi, but in a trai

Text messaging has been totally involved in every aspect of the political process during these last elections in Malaysia; parties reaching out to woo voters, misleading people with false rumors and now that the elections are over, messages of condolences are being sent out to the losing party and requests by SMS are being sent solliciting positions in the new cabine

NTT DoCoMo announced new anti-spam countermeasures to cope with an increase in spam sent via "Short Mail," the short messaging service for DoCoMo's cellular and PHS phones, according to Geekzon

A well written article from Voice of America on how cellphones are playing an important role in the upcoming Indian election

Wireless usage is accelerating the decline of landline use, according to a new study by the Yankee Group, reported by RCR Wireless New

Nokia and Sun Microsystems today announced the upcoming release of SNAP Mobile, an online multiplayer gaming solution for Java games, reports InfoSync Worl

As cellphone firms prepare Push-to-talk serivces, the WSJ voices industry experts who are questioning whether there is such an immediate demand in Europ

Howard Rheingold is interviewed by Eric Pfanner for The International Herald Tribune in a well written article on the role of texting and smart mobs in Spanish politic

Cellular Jewelry offers a $20 bracelet that lights up whenever the wearer (or anyone else one to three feet away) receives a phone call, according to Gizmod

Well this is a novel way to use cellphones, though I don't really understand how it work

Vin Crosbie on E-Media Tidbits points out that though "many North American media companies plan to deliver news via mobile phones, none are exhibiting or on the presentations program at CTIA Wireless 2004 in Atlanta, which -- with more than 70,000 attendees -- claims to be "the world's largest conference of the wireless industry" (despite being only one-third the size of a similar conference held earlier this year in Cannes

Following AT&T signing deals with European operators, enabling their customers to text message to Europe, Motorola just unveiled a new model that would allow many

Mobile operator Orange in Switzerland has announced the introduction of a new mobile phone recharging service through the country’s post offices, according to a company press releas

Virgin Mobile today said that it will adopt an 'opt-in' policy around new forms of content on its mobile phones, reports 160character

Around 450 billion text messages were sent around the world last year, according to Nokia, an increase of 50 percent over 2002, according to Bosto

AT&T Wireless said on Tuesday its 22 million US customers could send and receive short SMS text messages to over 263 million mobile phone users in Europe, reports Bosto

India In

Nextel Communications isn't waiting for more mobile operators to roll out would-be competitors to Direct Connect, the pioneering "push-to-talk" service that lets subscribers talk instantly to friends and associate

Today at the CTIA Wireless 2004 conference, Digit Wireless, consumer electronics giant LG Electronics and Canadian wireless carrier TELUS Mobility announced an agreement to produce the world's first Fastap-enabled mobile phone, reports InfoSync Worl

Another good article, from Newsflash this time, giving details on how political parties in the Philippines are using text messaging in the presidential campaigns, thanks to "Text Brigades" and "Youth Texters

A groundbreaking cell phone developed by The Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) that automatically translates the speaker's language from Japanese to English and vice versa could be on the market by 2007, reports Mainichi Daily New

Mike Masnick for Techdirt reports on an article published in the Washington Times on special chips that can turn cell phones into "spy phones" or eavesdropping devices that can secretly and suddenly turn into microphone

British Government officials sense that a terrorist strike on a major British city is only a matter of time, with London the prime target, according to an article in The Independen

A wonderful article by Richard Baum and Dolly Aglay for Reuters on how text messaging has shaped politics in the Philippine

This is a cool service offered to customers of the Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWes

This is really entertainin

"New technologies like e-mail and short text messages (SMS) radically changed the way to mobilize people," says Lorenzo Mosca, a researcher from the University of Florence on civil society's use of new technologies, in an article published in Antiwa

The Indian Railways, the world's largest employer, will introduce advanced mobile telephones for train staff to cut down on its high accident rate, according to the AF

Smart Mobs has an interesting post on a study published in Mobile Community Design, of a group of friends given free unlimited use of push-to-talk cell phones and allowed to develop their own social patterns and communication use

Campaign 2004 promises to be the most innovative and new-age, the country has ever witnesse

Radio Times UK has launched a new service for readers that will make sure they never miss their favourite television shows by sending text messages prior to transmission, reports DMBulleti

The Sunday Mail reports on a sensational murder case being tried in Bundaberg, Australia, involving a violent attack where the victim was left on the dance floor bleeding from stab wounds, after being threatened to put his body through a mince

Along the lines "there's more to a cell phone than meets the eye", New

Click Senior-Tel, developed by German company Vitaphone is a full-blown GSM phone for the elderly and confused - with just three buttons, reports The Register via Engadge

The Internet and cellular telephones are making drug traffickers harder than ever to catch and the job will only become more difficult as technology develops, a

From mobile-phone text messaging to cap badges to poetry recitals, candidates throughout Asia are using innovative ways to get their messages across in this year of region-wide elections, reports the Khaleej Time

This is a first! A company is asking it's staff to communicate by text messaging to bring costs dow

ITWeb has an interesting essay on how SMS, flashmobs and blogging combined to change the face of Spanish politic

Sydney Council today launched its new mobile phone payment parking system, which not only allows motorists to pay for metered parking using their mobile phone - but also lets them know via SMS that their meter is due to expire, according to The Ag

Bulgarian mobile operator M-Tel has announced that its subscribers can now use their phones while traveling on the metro in the capital city, Sofia - the first time such a system has been used in the country according to DMeurope, and one of the first European subway systems to provide complete mobile connection

Following yesterday's story "Cellphones as Terror's Latest Trigger", a senior Northern Ireland politician said that "a radical Irish group instructed Palestinian terrorists in turning cell phones into bombs", according to a Cleveland pape

In China, confronted with this new scene on campus, experts from the educational, medical and psychological fields have varied opinions on kids with telephone fever, according to China Dail

After winning lingerie company Gossard's text-messaging promotion, Laura Gerrard, 22, is looking for a buyer for the diamond-encrusted G-string, reports Ananov

Another alarming article on the menace of cellphone viruses, this time from the WS

According to a report just published by the Cambridge based consultancy Wireless Healthcare, mobile operators could play a key role in providing public healthcare services, reports Medical News Toda

Nokia sought to prevent a growing row over push-to-talk mobile phone technology with a promise that its networks and software would be compatible with other manufacturers' offerings, reports MSNB

Mike Masnick for Techdirt comments on a NY Times article on young mobile subscribers and how phone companies have been targeting their marketing dollars down into the pre-teen age rang

Lonely-hearts will stand a better chance of finding a soul mate thanks to new mobile phone dating technology, reports Reuter

Another new SMS service reported by SMS treasure-chest 160character

Set to launch in the UK in May, Kwickee Bitesize is inviting people to share knowledge by submitting short text-based information on almost any subject: sport, health, fashion, arts, science, adult, fiction et

Text messages from Britney Spears about her life on tour - and a chance to meet Britney in person - are now offered to fans through Britney Mobile Live !, reports InfoSync Worl

In a disturbing article, the WSJ reports that using cellphones to detonate explosives, as apparently happened in the Madrid bombings, is a phenomenon that is nearly impossible to stop from a technical standpoin

America Online has launched a new service designed to simplify and streamline online bill paying for its members, which includes a text alert service, according to PC Worl

In a first for the US wireless industry, AT&T Wireless and Maritime Telecommunications Network have announced that cruise ship passengers may soon enjoy the convenience of using their wireless phones while at se

InfoSync World writes about Soap Confidential, a new program designed to give ABC soap fans sneak preview information from their favorite characters through premium text messaging servic

Eva Dominguez for E Media Tidbits describes in a fascinating post, the role played by text messaging in the Spanish election

UK Music fans will soon be able to use their mobile phone to pay for music downloads via the internet - by sending a text message to a short code - according to Web Use

Jeremy Wagstaff for the WSJ reports on a Siemens survey describing how cell phones are not only changing our lives, but changing who we are; "they have become an extension of our personality

There are several articles online today on Push-to-talk technology, I'm posting excerpts from the story in the Wall Street Journal, but for anyone who is not a subscriber, there are good articles in both Infosync World and ZDNet U

Mike Grensville for 160character

When I saw the Mobile Tracker headline in my RSS feed, I though it concerned Europe or New Zealand, but this is about the U

Just days after the mobile phones in the pockets of the dead at Atocha train station eerily rang as loved ones attempted to call them, mobiles and e-mails figured prominently in organising demonstrations against the terrorists and the government, reports DMeurop

Most people in China can’t afford proper cellphone service, so China Telecom and China Netcom decided to offer cheap wireless phone service called Little Smart that’s sort of like having a cordless phone with a really long rang

Howard Rheingold for TheFeatur

This month, Vodafone UK is to launch its Content Control product, which is designed to prevent minors accessing inappropriate content, reports InfoSync Worl

This has always touched me, how texting is such a wonderful tool for anyone who is deaf or hearing impaire

In another enlightening survey, the Scotsman reports on an employer/employee text related study - with a twist!

Following last weeks stories: Street slang makes youths 'unemployable' and Text messaging is affecting the communication skills of business people, this study reports that candidates are turning down job offers "because their prospective employers have failed to impress them at interviews by using bad language, flirting or eating, or texting

A survey a UK divorce lawyers shows emails, texting and chat rooms make it far easier to be unfaithful, reports the The Su

Bangkok' The Nation reports that sexually explicit images sent via text messaging are becoming more common in Thailand with flyers advertising such services being handed out in front of department stores and school

Reuters via Mobile Tracker reports that "the bombs used in the deadly Madrid train bombings were set off by a mobile phone, containing copper detonators, which are not generally used by armed Basque separatist group ETA, a radio station has reported

We owe this one to Peter Rojas or Eric Lin - it's hard to tell - at Engadge

The Scotsman News reports relationship experts believe text messages can play a mixed role in relationship

With the "do-not-call" list up and running, the government is now trying to champion spa

Ian Pearson, BT's chief futurologist has predicted that mobile network operators will be redundant by 2010, with consumers turning to free wireless LAN capacity for their mobile call

Engadget via boingboing report on a fabulous success story of a Japanes author who has been sending installments of his best selling novel by text messagin

Vodacom has initiated a new, location-based Look4me service on its cellular networ

Russian officials are using heavy-handed measures to cajole the electorate into voting in Sunday, reports The Hind

There's good reason why Joi Ito is everyone's favorite blogge

Mobile operator Telefónica Móviles has appealed to Madrid residents to limit their mobile phone calls to reduce network congestion after this morning's bomb attacks in the Spanish capital, reports The Registe

John Alderman shares an experience he had in Tokyo last week in his Journal on TheFeatur

According to The Telegraph UK, the proliferation of street slang and text messaging has become so problematic that many youngsters are now "virtually unemployable

Daniel Terdiman for Wired has an interesting article today on Rock the Mobile Vote, "a new initiative in the US that aims to tap the mobile phones of young people to entice them to vote this November

Thieves stole the Israeli spy chief’s mobile last month, and the theft might compromise sensitive security information, reports Ireland Onlin

Sounds like Nokia has made an embarrassing mistak

Research results reported today by McAfee Security, has revealed a growing level of concern about the security of increasingly sophisticated wireless technology, reports InfoSync World

"Research found that without security protection mobile and wireless security breaches could cost over $2 billion per attack in 2005, that potential worm outbreaks on mobile devices in 2005 could infect 30% of the population, and that worms spreading via mobile devices are projected to take just 3 days to reach maximum penetration within 2 years

Simon Perry, who has been following the Mobile TLD (or M-TLD) proposals closely, has raised some interesting issues:

"It appears that the idea is to limit the people who can get a

This is wild! InfoSync World reports that a consortium of companies including Microsoft, Nokia, Vodafone, 3, GSM Association, HP, Orange, Samsung Sun Microsystems are applying for a TLD (Top Level Domain Name - such as

Found on Smart Mobs, the world's first SMS text message litterary magazine, Onesixt

A proposed tax on text messaging has resurfaced in the Philippines, the "texting capital of the world", reports Inq

European mobile operators are expected to see a revenue increase of

IOL reports that cellphones have become the latest battleground in Malaysia's elections, with IT-savvy political parties sending tens of thousands of short messages daily to woo voters ahead of the March 21 electio

Worldwide mobile phone sales totaled 520 million units, a 2

Julie Jacobson for Stuff brings up a good questio

The Canadian Press news agency and Atlas Telecom Mobile are teaming up to deliver news headlines via cellphones, reports Yahoo New

Chong Seck Chim for New Straits Times ponders on why text messaging is so appealing to young people and if there really is cause for academic concer

Wireless Week reports on a Web-based usage tool, Mobile Guardian, which allows parents or businesses to manage wireless phone usag

Motorola on Monday announced that some of its handsets sold outside the United States, Canada and Japan will come preloaded with MTV's interactive games series Plastikulture, reports New

More gossip on Engadget vs Gizmod

Crooks in the streets of Nairobi are putting to waste years of planning and millions of shillings of investment in expensive technology that had been intended to stop mobile phone thefts in the region, reports AllAfric

The New Zealand Hearald points out that Italian do things differently with their mobile phones, such as:

- 96 per cent of Italians are on pre-paid mobile account

Germany's government has turned to its mobilized citizens for help in tracking down suspected criminals, fugitives and even missing persons, according to Network World Fusio

According to South Korean daily the Digital Chosun, security services offered by mobile phone providers have been gaining popularity, following a recent spate of kidnappings of children and wome

Some professors have spoken out on how text messaging is hurting their student's writing abilities or speaking skills, but this is the first time I've read e-mail and text messaging are affecting the communication skills of business peopl

Eight students from a French school (the collège-lycée Saint-Pierre of Saint-Brieuc) were suspended after posting camphone pictures of their professors on a moblog hosted by Skyblog, with derogatory remark

The US-led coalition is developing a new tool in its "war on terror" in Iraq - a modern communications network including mobile phones and special radio devices for emergency services, reports the AF

The German mobile phone market is overall the most expensive in Western Europe, according to the Dow Jones, while France and Finland are among the least competitive, a report released Friday by consultancy OMSYC showe

Singapore Telecommunications said it will launch Asia's first multiplayer mobile phone game called Gunslingers, that can locate several users within two kilometres (

I an example of SMS used as evidence in a criminal investigation, recovered cell phone correspondence between the victim, Sean Ethan Owen - 23, and one of the murder suspects, lead to their arres

This year will mark the 11th time, since Independence, that Malaysians will cast the ballot to determine who will represent them and steer the nation further into the 21st century, reports Sinchew-

Mike Grenville for 160character

An Islamic Prayer Alert service has raised over £15k for charities in the UK, according to 160character

French Rugby star celebs' pictures are available for downloading at SFR mobile operator, powered by favorite wireless content company SeeMySMS and VASI-Groupe JCA, in a campaign to "promote sports through Multimedia Messaging

In an article in Forbes on how mobile phones are increasingly becoming a source of entertainment - or trying to, these interesting figures: "

The Manila Bulleting Online reports that a song that has been composed through texting and it’s by Vina Morales and Piolo Pascual no les

Short message services have grown so popular in China they've even found their way into one of the country's most important political events -- the annual session of China's top legislature and political advisory body, reports China Vie

For ten bucks a month, Verizon Wireless will let you forward calls from your cellphone directly to your seat while flying, as long as you’re traveling on an airline that uses Verizon’s Airfone service, according to Engadge

Engadget reviews some of the oddities presented at the 3GSM trade show in Cannes, last wee

A woman's conversation with a friend on her cell phone may have saved her life as she was ambushed by armed robbers Wednesday nigh

Terming India as the fastest growing mobile market in the world, Nokia Chairman and CEO Jorma Ollila said he saw over 80 per cent of global mobile subscription growth coming from new growth markets like India, China, and Russia in the next five years, reports Siliconindi

E-Media Tidbits reports on Swedish metro newspaper Stockholm City having made interactive content an important part of the service it provides readers, nearly all of which are comfortable with text messagin

On Tuesday, the BBC had a lenghty article describing how cell phones have turned out to be a very powerful tool for the modern spy and how mobile phones doubling as listening devices could be bought over the interne

The New York Times has a chilling account of investigators trailing terrorists thanks to signals transmitted by a cell phone computer chip between suspected Al Qaeda member

Rafat Ali for Moco News reports that The Wireless Gaming Review, a website mobile gamers - which provides editorial reviews, previews, and insights to mobile games - has been bought up by CNET Networ

Engadget blogs about a Pocket PC Phone called the EMIRATE 1, "which besides being the first Pocket PC built in the United Arab Emirates, also comes with built-in GPS navigation - which they tout as being able to help you find Mecca when it’s time to pray

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ST George Bank customers (Australia) can monitor their accounts on their mobile phones, using an SMS facility, reports the Australian I

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Something European cell phone manufacturers must be concerned about, China's exporting cell phones - at a lower cos

The former England footballer Stan Collymore has been dropped by the BBC after he admitted trawling car parks for casual sex, reports The Times Onlin

I was wondering why Gizmodo had lost it's special touch, and now I kno

Smart Mobs reports on a newly released mobile application called Soundercover - for Nokia Series 60 phones - that allows a user to add background sounds to phone calls so that one can pretend to be somewhere else -- like caught in traffic, at the dentis

London Underground is holding talks with the four main mobile operators - Orange, O2, Vodafone and T-Mobile - to allow mobile phones to be used on the Tube network in London, according to Telecom Pape

Many consumers are not interested in handheld devices that offer multiple functions beyond making phone calls or holding data, according to a survey by Guideline Research, a custom market research firm, reports InfoSyncWorl

Respondents to February's Unstrung poll (52 percent ) say that a lack of interoperability among push-to-talk (PTT) services offered by separate carriers could be a big hurdle to the widespread adoption of these digital walkie-talkie

In another example of how text messaging is used by Business, Japan's top mobile carrier NTT DoCoMo will allow its 321,000 shareholders to cast their votes at the next shareholders' meeting via the company's Internet-capable cellular phones, according to an article by the A

Something for the text messaging history book

The Associated Press has a very interesting article on how how cell phones have contributed to intelligence gathering between Indian troops and Muslim separatists fighting in Indi

In an article on phone calls and privacy, following revelations about bugging at the United Nations, the BBC reports on how to ensure private conversations - and not just if you are Secretary Genera

The Walt Disney Internet Group has announced today a global distribution agreement with mobile operator Vodafone to provide Disney Mobile services to Vodafone Live customers in Australia, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, according to DMEurop

Malaysia's independent online news daily, Malaysiakini, has launched a comprehensive website, und

MobileWhack reports on Mogi, a community-based location game for mobile phone

Some cell phone customers thought they could escape unwanted spam solicitations by taking their e-mail correspondence from the computer to text messaging service

It's a well know fact keyboard users are at risk to contract repetitive strain injury (RSI), a painful condition hat affects half a million office workers in the U

The increased quality of games across all the handsets means mobile gaming has become the fastest growing area in the games market, reports The Guardia

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Verizon Wireless plans to debut in April a cellphone that its subscribers can use around the world as well as in the

China's mobile phone users sent more than 1