SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2004 / 03 / 18

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