SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2004 / 08

Children in foster care may soon be able to text their social workers with their concerns under a new scheme being considered by UK's Plymouth City Council, reports adoption-ne

The Korea Herald reports that cell phones are an addiction that's causing stress among particularly the younger generatio

A suspected drug pusher in the Philippines was arrested yesterday after police fooled him into thinking he was texting his supplier, reports The Freeman Terror fears loom over subway cell phone service

Despite mounting evidence from Spain to Pakistan that al-Qaeda is training its operatives to use cell phones to detonate bombs by remote control, cities around the world are taking steps to wire subway tunnels to receive mobile signals, reports the San Diego Union Tribun

A professor at the University of Oslo thinks the widespread usage of cell phones among teenagers is prompting them to have sex at an earlier ag

TechJapan reports on a mobil ap for DoCoMo customers developed by JR East Japan Planning, that will show the user the departure times of train

«Phone», a 2002 Korean horror film has just been released in the UK, directed by Byeong-ki Ahn, in which a haunted mobilephone plays a major rol

Patents related to mobile phone game technologies are increasing as cell phones became daily necessity and computer games are booming, reports Telecoms Kore

A new UK based friends network, playtxt, uses six-degree's-of-separation via a mobile phone to meet friends, or friends of friends safely and easily when one is out and about on the town, according to a company press releas

A California entrepreneur has a plan to bring the hacker technique of Caller

Atomic clocks may be headed into cell phones, thanks to a breakthrough by federal researchers, according to New

A judge granted Verizon Wireless a permanent injunction against a Rhode Island man accused of sending millions of unsolicited text-message advertisements to cell phone customers in four states, reports USA Today

"The messages were sent over the last several months to cell users in California, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Islan

Westminster Council's campaign to cut off mobile telephone numbers used by prostitutes could go badly wrong, according to The Inquire

A new survey by Norway's dominant telecommunications company Telenor revealed that mobile use by children is enjoying explosive growth, reports Aftenposte

Finland knows what to do with Nokia Phone

Pantech&Curitel’s new game phone adopting innovative design was opened to public Monda

On eve of the Republican Convention, mobile community Upoc Networks announces the upcoming marriage of a couple who met via text messaging on its mobile community service, Upo

City leaders of Huntington Beach California adopted an ordinance, which takes effect September 15, that bans all cell phone use in libraries, including talking, text messaging and ringing tones of any kind, reports The Associated Pres

Finns, Norwegians and Danes send a lot more SMS messages and talk considerably more on the mobile phone than the Swedes, Nordic telecoms operator TeliaSonera told the Finnish News Agency STT Friday, reports Newsroom Finlan

For anyone who wants to know what's up at NTT DoCoMo, you can sign up to the new RSS feed of their company press release

Protesters and police put on a Broadway show Sunday night, with rallies and mass arrests throughout the theater district where Republicans had gathered for a night on the town, reports Scripps Howard News Servic

In yet another case where text messaging is being used as evidence in court, The Associated Press reports on a Washington National Guard soldier, Sp

A mobile phone system allowing users to help find missing children scored its first success Sunday in Jeonju (South Korea), 100 days after the system was introduced, according to Digital Chosunilb

A new law due to be debated in the Australian Senate today, allows many new government bodies to access private e-mails, voice-mail messages and SMS messages, reports The Herald Su

The highly modern Singapore Air Force is plagued by migratory egrets that appear between September and November, causing fighter planes to crash if sucked into the jet engines, reports Spacewa

Figures released by Telstra today show that more than 97,000 SMS messages and 90,000 fixed line phone calls have been made to Greece by Telstra customers since the start of the Athens Olympics, according to IT New

European Game & Entertainment Technology, a Finnish supplier of digital gaming solutions, has delivered MMS mobile scratch cards to the Swedish national gaming operator, Sperospe

Rushkoff over at TheFeatur

Rumours of a giant python, with the girth the size of a car tyre, living under the market in Sungai Muar (Malaysia) brought the town to almost a standstill yesterday, reports the The Sta

The mobile phone market is stepping up demand for a single antenna with dual-band capabilities that can cover two or more frequency bands, according to NEAsi

A new study says that nearly a fifth of video-game players have bought a game for their mobile, with the number of American households playing mobile games doubling this yea

This article published in the Tehran Times is an interesting contrast to the upcoming American Presidential election

Passengers with SNCF French railways can now get traffic and some reservations services with SMS, according to 160character

A well written article by Noah Shachtman for the Chicago Tribune on how the mobile phone has become a tool of choice for US political organizer

French website "paysan

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Buena Vista Television and AOL entered a deal that will allow tens of millions of AOL members, AOL Instant Messenger users and (mobile) fans of the show to participate in "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire's" "Ask The Audience" polling, reports

The news from BT that it plans to axe close to one-fifth of payphones in Scotland is the last phase of a rolling review that will eventually see around 10,000 payphones disappear across Britain in the coming 18 months, reports the BB

State police used Global Positioning System technology embedded in a cell phone to track down and arrest a man suspected of making 1-800 obscene phone calls to 911 operators over the past two months, reports 1490WBE

BT's new phone and service called Magic Messenger - that will allow their subscribers to send and receive texts from their home phone - goes live next week, according to Pocket Gizm

T-Mobile USA is touting its big-three IM offering through the sale of the Nokia 6800 messaging phone, which sports built-in software that supports AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger, according to Wireless Wee

A defect in Siemens 65 series mobile phones could lead to failures in audio transmission, the company warne

Railway companies in the in the Kanto and Kansai areas (Japan) have established common cell phone rules to ensure courtesy amongst passengers and also to prevent medical equipment, such as pacemakers used by people with heart problems, from malfunctioning, reports NEAsi

The Star reports on one of the duller (albeit useful) text messaging services just launched in Malaysia, allowing mobile users to receive insurance quotes by SM

The ContraCosta Times has an interesting article on Proxemics, the study of how people perceive and use the space around them founded in the 1950s by anthropologist Edward

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The New York Times has a well writen piece on cyberbullie

The Nokia 9300 isn’t too big nor too small, perhaps just righ

The International Association of Firefighters has called for a moratorium on new cell towers on fire stations until health effects can be studied, according to a Vermont-based advocacy group, reports RCRNew

A Kaspersky Labs researcher said yesterday that terrorists will cripple the Internet August 26 -- toda

"China, the world's largest cellular phone market with more than 305 million subscribers, is fast emerging as a leading center for mobile phone design as well", reports The Pulse Journal via China Digital New

When the cash receipt system comes into effect January 2005, consumers will be able to get receipts for their cash purchases on their mobile phones, reports Telecoms Kore

The Secufone offers a conventional GSM mobile phone, conbined with always-on GPS and easy alarm reportin

The BBC is to risk the wrath of commuters by staging a live "flashmob" opera at one of Britain's busiest railway stations, reports this is london via near near futur

The Virtual Keyboard (VKB) has reached market in the UK and the world will be watching over the coming months to see how this new and potentially very important device is adopted, reports Gizm

In a 24-14 party-line vote, the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a bill -- AB 2901 -- to require cell phone sellers to provide free and convenient recycling for their products by July 2006, reports The Mercury New

As part of its push into mobile servies, Kodak has announced that it will offer a premium-content sport images service that will be able to be downloaded and saved as wallpaper on to mobile phones, in the UK and in France, according to Rafat Ali for Moco New

The Yellow Arrow project is making waves in NYC, LA, Chi town, and San Francisco, reports Clipping

A new service called "Prep for the SAT," beams SAT practice questions to cellphones so kids can brush up during idle moments in the day -- say, while waiting for the school bus, reports the venerable Walter

Filipino mobile phone subscribers should be wary of local phone repair shops charging for virus removal services, antivirus firm Trend Micro warned Wednesday, according to inq

Nokia and Pointsec today announced that they have jointly developed a solution designed to protect enterprise customers' data on mobile device

New religious text messaging services have been launched in the Philippines, according to abs-cnnnew

Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art and the City is a three-day event (OCT 1-3, 2004) in Lower Manhattan that highlights the diverse ways artists, technical innovators and activists are using communication technologies to generate urban experiences and public voic

Figures from Telecom Italia show that fixed line messaging services are taking off in Italy, according to Mike Grenville from 160character

A new system, developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, provides relief for the everyday life of the visually impaired and offers interesting opportunities also for people with normal eyesight, according to More Mobil

Not related to these blogs, but I couldn't resis

After the "elder phone", here comes the "child phone

In Australia, repeat offenders caught talking on mobile phones while driving could soon face a maximum two-year jail term, reports New

The Scotsman has written a wistfull article on mobile phones, describing how years from now, our grandchildren will hardly believe they were once used for making phone call

Further proof New York's real estate market is inflated: The city plans to sell space on top of lampposts to wireless phone companies for $2

Programmers in Hong Kong have created an online dating game featuring a cyber dream girl that can be wooed and won via a 3G phone, reports The Washington Times and CN

The number of mobile phone subscribers in China is the world's largest at 300 million, as of May 2004, reports NEAsi

Following yesterday's post on how Vodafone customers in South Africa have been able to dial a code and listen in to other people's cell phone conversation, Vodacom COO, Pieter Uys, told 702 radio yesterday that the eavesdropping problem has been corrected, according to Cellular New

NTT DoCoMo, the world's second-largest mobile phone company, is in talks to buy handsets from the US's Motorola, reports the BB

A university research team in Korea succeeded in charging handsets with electricity generated by the move of a walking person, according to Telecoms Kore

All systems are go and registration for the second level domain name

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Howard Rheingold reviewed Rich Ling's new book, "The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society", about his extensive research (thousands of interviews) into the way people (especially adolescents) adopted and adapted mobile devices (both voice and SMS) from their first introduction in Scandinavia in the late 1990

Worldwide revenue from mobile data services is expected to jump from an estimated $61bn (£3

The audience at a dance performance in London's Trafalgar Square this Sunday will be invited to direct the outcome live by Text Messagin

Un Message, Evidemment is an ongoing film and performanc

Malaysian City folk, who want the police to keep an eye on their homes when going on holiday, can now just send an SMS to the police via short code 32728, reports The Sta

AT&T Wireless is offering weather news in Spanish, as part of the company's wider effort to attract and retain Spanish-speaking customers, reports Wireless Wee

NTT DoCoMo and its eight regional subsidiaries announced that they will add English language capability to the i-mode Disaster Message Board service beginning September 1, 2004, according to a company press releas

Coin-Operated reports on a project called Bubl Space which supposedly blocks all mobile phone signals around you to give you some quiet space without the annoying chatter of phone caller

Thwarted so far in his attempts to clamp down on mobile telephone use among deputies, the speaker of the Italian parliament has hit upon a sophisticated way of getting tough, reports the AF

Telecoms Korea reports that the fingerprint recognition security function of the LG Electronics handset, rolled out 12th August in the Korean market, turned out to be flawe

Telecoms Korea reports that the fingerprint recognition security function of the LG Electronics handset, rolled out 12th August in the Korean market, turned out to be flawe

Telecoms Korea reports that the fingerprint recognition security function of LG-LP3800 that LG Electronics ambitiously rolled out 12th August in the Korean market turned out to be flawe

Once merely a useful tool for keeping in touch on the go, the mobile phone is fast finding a new niche as an instrument of spiritual enlightenment, reports Wired in an article on cell phones and religion

KTF, a Korean wireless service provider, launched a service yesterday that detects emotions in a speaker's voic

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China's communist leaders, in a fresh move to eradicate pornography, have targeted the telephone-sex industry, ordering severe punishment for anyone offering the service, the official People's Daily said Wednesday, reports China Digital New

People who use mobile phones in remote, rural areas are significantly more at risk from potentially harmful emissions, according to the latestresearch, reports The Scotsma

Australian Olympic supporters have sent over 38,000 Telstra HeroMessages to Australian athletes competing in Athens, Telstra said today, topping the Sydney Olympic total of 22,000, reports ZDNe

Classified advertisements are an integral part of newspapers, making their way to the Web and now also set to make their mark in the short message service (SMS) world, according to the Malaysia Sta

Language technology company Linguit has announced the launch of Nuggets, an automatic search engine for mobile phones based on popular text message technology, reports Geekzon

Norwegian researchers have used cellphone text messaging for the first time to track a young wolf that recently crossed the border from neighbouring Sweden, according to io

A marketing campaign to promote the latest version of the Resident Evil video game has provoked a panic about the spread of a non-existent mobile phone virus, reports The Registe

Mobile marketing services providerEnpocket--which just last week announced a partnership with digital youth research firm NextStep, revealed what will be the pair's first joint effort, a newsletter containing panel research about teenagers and the mobile phone market, according to MediaPos

Mobile games publisher Digital Bridges and specialist developer Distinctive Developments, today announced the launch of 3D pool, the world's first full 3D mobile pool game, reports Wireless Developer Networ

In a nice gesture, Wireless data services company ClearSky Mobile Media is donating a portion of the proceeds on two downloadable wallpapers for mobile phones to the Red Cross of Central Florida to help victims of Hurricane Charley, according to the Orlando Business Journa

In another instance where SMS is brought up in a court case, a teacher bombarded a 15-year-old schoolboy lover with 499 text messages during their illicit affair, a court was told yesterday in Australia, according to the Townsville Bulleti

Businesses stepped up to help those whose luck ran out on Friday the 13th, reports the Bradenton Heral

SK Telecom, announced Tuesday the launch of downloading service of V3 Mobile, the cell phone virus vaccine, reports Telecoms Kore

Sending text messages via mobile phones is helping deaf people to interact with the hearing community, according to Australian research, reports AB

Lebanese mobile phone users were urged to leave their portable telephones at home or switched off in protest at what is considered one of the costliest services in the world, reports the Associated Pres

Young people in are running up huge mobile phone debts, reports The Edinburgh New

Cellular carrier Celcom (Malaysia) Bhd will suspend all SMS contests it is running, pending a review of the contests’ propriety from legal and religious standpoints, according to the Sta

JustCheck the leader in online processing of returned checks for payment, announced they are now providing funds verification services through the text messagin

TIME Asia magazine reports on the Philippine

MobiLuck Bluetooth Software allows mobile users to meet, exchange, play, recognize, find or share files - for free - at a distance of 33 to 330 f

POPGADGET has a roundup of movies where cell phones play a major rol

Krista Winters and Matt Chick are offering emergency cell phone charges in New York City, outside of the Virgin Records in Union Square, reports POPGADGET (a fabulous blog - just pointed out by Régine of near near future - "POPGADGET: Personal Tech for Wome

Payphone service operators are struggling with shrinking sales as mobile phones become universal in Korea, reports The Korea Time

Forget pop song ringtones and internet link-ups - the next big thing in mobile phones will be bigger screens and bigger buttons, as mobile companies try to hook baby boomers on SMS, reports The Sydney Morning Herald

"A Sydney trend specialist predicts the over-40s market clout will bring about tailor-made phones for their failing eyesight and arthritic finger

Cellular phones failed many subscribers in Central Florida as storm-related power outages disabled scores of cell towers across the region, reports the Orlando Sentine

Singapore's new cabinet has asked young people born from 1965 - the year the country became independent from the Malaysian federation - to send their views on the country's long-term future by mobile text message and other high-tech means, according to News2

SK Telecom starts a group messaging service allowing to send message calls and SMS at one time to a group of addresses saved in the cell phone and make multilateral phone calls, the company announced Sunday, reports Telecoms Kore

An 18 year old Belgian girl was murdered last week, but sent an alarming sms-message to her father shortly before her deat

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Maldives’ authorities halted Internet and cell phone text messaging services on Saturday, a day after thousands of activists rallied in a rare show of dissent in this tightly controlled island nation, reports the Khaleej Time

Wireless messaging will be a featured performer at Saturday's Coors Light Mountain Jam at Red Rocks in Colorado, reports Wireless Wee

Ben Dover, the British porn actor/director, is launching an adult magazine that will provide subscribers with videos, pics, news, and interviews - all delivered directly to your cell phon

A rule prohibiting mobile-phone spam adopted by the

A 12-month suspension, beginning September 1, has been handed to Soh

Siemens is supposedly working on a mobile phone with a gas sensor built-in, reports i4U via Engadge

T-Mobile wants to make sure Paris Hilton, Nicole, Lindsay and other luminaries in young Hollywood are seen with the Sidekick II in the months before it's released to the masses this fall, reports the LA Daily New

Next Monday, Swiss mobile operator Orange will launch a cell phone for the elderly, with just three colored buttons, called Mobi-Clic

Interesting, Vietnam's mobile penetration is currently only just about 4%, according to PRWe

Text messaging is increasingly being used by UK hospitals to remind patients about outpatient appointments -- and could potentially save the National Health Service millions of pounds every year, reports CN

A former Verizon Wireless employee was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on charges he stole more than $20 million from the company's prepaid cellular telephone service, reports the WS

All my sympathy to my friend Rafat Ali who's lost two months work on his mobile content blog Moconew

Rushkoff's Journal on TheFeatur

In the history of political protests, police have long had the technological upper hand when it comes to monitoring protesters' movements and action

Security experts have quashed reports that a pirated mobile videogame was host to the world's first malicious mobile phone virus, after it emerged that the supposed 'Trojan horse' component was originally inserted as a copy protection measure by the game's develope

Matt Richtell for The New York Times, writes about how our thumbs have evolved into a preferred mode of 21st-century communication - thanks to text messagin

KTF customers have their mobile phones sterilized by ultra violet light while enjoying ice cream at the Drama House in Myongdong, Wednesda

eBay UK has launched a service designed to make auctions accessible to mobile phones subscribers, reports The Registe

Lance Ulanoff for PC Magazine reminds us all that text messages can be retrieved and read by third partie

The Philippine Presidential Palace on Wednesday clarified that its proposal to tax the “windfall profits” of telecommunication firms is not the same as taxing text messaging, reports The Manilla Time

Suprising and bad news from The Canadian Pres

mOlympics is a free mobile newsreader just launched by Russell Beattie about the Olympic Game

SchoolTXT, a cell phone alert service, used by about 90 schools, colleges and universities all over the Philippines, has been proven very effective in transmitting information to the members of the school community including parents, teachers and school personnel, reports philsta

LogicaCMG has been commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Economic affairs to build the world's first government sponsored mobile alert system based on cell broadcast (CB) technology, reports inSource

Local Kuala Lumpur TV station Channel 9 plans to introduce an SMS (short message service) contest that will be based solely on skill and not involve any element of chance, said its chief executive officer Abdul Aziz Hamda

In another example of marketing goes mobile, a soft drink gets mobile theme

Korean adolescents and college students reportedly replace their handset every 16 months on average, twice more often than adults, according to

The singles of Singapore have plenty of help: Phone chat-lines, dating agencies and even the government are all dedicated to pairing up peopl

Working women in the UK think new technology makes their lives even more hectic, according to ninems

"It took decades for an old technology called mobile telephony to take of

UK Secondary schools are to receive guidance on how to teach children "standard" spoken English, reports the BB

A fun story in IOL, describes Kim Basinger caught on her cell phone in front of a huge poster - of herself on a cell phon

The San Francisco Gate has an article on the inexhaustible subject of cell phone rudeness - and compares it to cigarette smokin

As part of “Reinventing Radio” a Co-production of Ars Electronica Festival and kunstradi

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has prototyped a mobile phone that can function as both a cell phone and an IP phone, switching seamlessly in mid-conversation, according to Mobile Media Japa

Chinese people are expected to send 550 billion short messages this year, doubling mobile phone operators' revenues to some

Mobile phone users should beware of being bitten by Mosquito, a Trojan masquerading as a game but designed to send out premium-rate SMS messages without the user's consent, according to vnune

Though the Big Brother reality show is attracting a record amount of viewers, the number of SMS votes isn't keeping pac

NBC Olympics and AT&T Wireless, a

What if you could get up-close and personal with the nation's next president? How about text messaging a presidential candidate or critiquing their debate techniques using your wireless phone? You can if you tune in to AMERICAN CANDIDATE this Sunday, August 15, at 9

Verizon plans to offer a service that would act as a virtual switchboard operator, letting customers stay in touch at all time

The copyright for China's first novel to be delivered by mobile phone text messaging, featuring an extra-marital love affair, has been sold by a Beijing-based wireless business operator, reports CIOL and the BB

A consumer group on Monday said it would lead the first ever cyber-protest in the Philippines to denounce government plans to tax mobile phone text messaging, according to the Manilla Bulletin Onlin

A Wired article details both Cingular and Virgin USA's "rescue calls", covered last week in Ringtoni

Cell phone makers plan to release so-called Wi-Fi phones ahead of schedule, bringing new threats and opportunities to wireless carriers and traditional phone service providers, reports New

Fashion Victims explores the invisible world behind mobile communication: we have designed a collection of garments that react (respond and change) according to the surrounding mobile phone call

The limited edition “Olympic Gold Phones” were auctioned recently and received tremendous respons

An interesting article from the Malaysia Star on two new SMS business aplications developed by Maxis Communication

It is not often that Philippines Inc has much to teach other parts of the worl

Hong Kong's mobile phone obsession has passed onto children, with their ownership of the gadgets coming highest in Asia, a survey showed, reports the AF

Verizon Wireless, the largest

According to the Financial Times, the founder of discount European airline easyJet is ready to introduce a cut-rate mobile telephone service in Britain next week, setting the stage for a price wa

Yesterday, the Aquafan of Riccione - an Italian mobile company willl give lessons in Bluetoothing organized by Sony Ericsson, according to near near futur

About one-fifth of consumers in Europe are interested in getting bankbalance alerts through SMS, up from 8% in 2002, according to ForresterResearch, reports eMarkete

An Australian judge said that teenagers wanting the latest in mobile phone fashions could soon spur more robberies than drugs, reports The Australian and the AFP

"With the cost of new generation mobile handsets rising and young people wanting to keep up with trends, Judge David Robin said he fears the emergence of a new tren

BT is hoping to launch the next big thing in texting - SMS between fixed and mobile phones - and is bringing out a range of handsets and signing up some big name operators to help, reports Silico

The UK Telegraph reports on a BT text messaging-only gadget with a qwerty keyboard that sends SMS to cell phones and landline phones (converted to speech if the recipient doesn't have a similar device

A new service called Seeking a lawyer by sending SMS, has been launched by Hangzhou Langyi Communication Network Technology in China, reports Zheijang Onlin

It is time to have a clear set of national guidelines on what Muslims can or cannot do at concerts and carnivals, says the head of the council issuing fatwas or Islamic edicts in Malaysia, reports the Straits Time

You may not need to rely on batteries to charge up your MP3s and mobile phones for soon your body may become the energy source for all these gadgets, according to an article in webindia12

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Where on earth did Red Ferret stumble on this one? He's outdone himself again!

How to Make Friends by Telephon

The first batch of China Unicom's dual mode cellular phones, the first of its kind in the world, will official hit the market Thursday evening, reports chin

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Roaming Messenger exhibited at an IT conference in Anaheim, its messaging product for instantaneous, interactive interagency communicatio

Easy Internet Solutions, a web services provider, has launched a web hosting service, claiming to be the first of its kind in the UK to offer an SMS payment option, reports Netimperativ

Alerts USA, has expanded its service to include “near-instant” SMS alerts of threats of terrorism, reports RCRNew

Internet phone carriers such as Vonage should set up their systems so

Unhappy with that cup of coffee? Tell them on your cellphone the

A hit amongst teenagers, the device, designed by Danger and marketed by T-Mobile, is basically another cell phone combo, but one specifically designed for the rabid text message

Revenues from mobile ticketing applications will help turn the global mobile commerce market into an $88bn industry by 2009, according to a new report from Juniper Research, according to TMCne

A new breed of alternative British rocker is once again giving the finger to the corporate music machine, thanks to an arsenal of do-it-yourself new media, reports Wire

The creation of a mobile directory-assistance database could mean billions in revenue within the next four years, according to a (wishful thinking) report released by Piertz Group Tuesday, writes RCRWireless New

Samsung is gearing up for marketing race in Greece where the 2004 Olympics will be held, reports Telecoms Kore

The Health Telematic Network (HTN), leading telemedicine services company and TIM have launched a new service of health information via cellular phones, reports AGI Onlin

Norfolk-based Dataline recently started shipping to the

A new study by Plantronics - who just happen to make in car headsets - measured the physical impairment drivers experienced while using a mobile phone and found that reaction time, accuracy and consistency of speed improved significantly when a headset was used with the phone, according to Cellular New

Mike Masnick for Techdirt Wireless reports on mobile phones embedded in your ea

The advertising of mobile communication may be abolished in Russian mass media, according to an article in Gateway to Russi

This is the second article in two days, on the vulnerability of bluetooth enabled cell phone

Yahoo is now beta testing sending all their alerts via (including the latest news, weather, stocks, email notifications, and instant messages) SMS text message to cellphone

Mizuko Ito, (Joi Ito's sister), analyses how wireless tools are changing the experience of co-presence for Japanese yout

Some Michigan employers are moving to restrict or ban their employees from using cell phones while driving, reports mliv

A man talking on a mobile phone died after being struck by lighting in Changhung, South Cholla Province, on Monda

The arrest of a senior al Qaeda operative in June and his subsequent interrogation enabled

Customs officers in Hong Kong have seized fake mobile phone accessories worth HK$

A wonderful grassroots project initiated by two kids, raises funds for GIs to call home, reports MSNB

Based on a single-chip Bluetooth device, consumers with Bluetooth mobile phones, laptops or PDAs would have the option of taking meter readings themselves and communicating them to the utility company over the Internet or GS

Fathered by DDI, Kyocera and Toyota Motor , the AP-K303T or ''PiPit Phone'', is more than a funny-looking mobile phone: it integrates a protection system for kids, women and senior

Kuwait has outlawed the use Bluetooth for nefarious purpose

Many of the most popular models of Bluetooth-enabled cell phones can be hacked easily, enabling a malicious hacker to steal phone books, images, calendar information, or virtually anything else stored on the phone, say a pair of security experts, reports PC Worl

Siemens SK65 claims to be the first mobilephone with pomplete E-Mail managemen

Residents and visitorsto the Chena Hot Springs area live in a black hole, comparatively, with little hard-line phone service and no cell reception, reports news-mine

BT Group will this week announce a service that will allow mobile users to send text messages to fixed-line telephones by converting them into a synthesised voice call, according to the Times Onlin

Verisign - the company forever associated with the registration of domain names- has announced an agreement with Singapore International Airlines (SIA) to enable customers to check-in to flights from their mobile devices, using global, by text message reports Wireless Devne

SK Telecom announced Monday the launch of M-Quick service combining motorbike delivery service or quick service with the le Internet, reports Telecom's Kore

SK Telecom has opened Monday the nation’s first online museum, «MoMu» devoted to the traces of Korea’s 20-year-old mobile communication, major mobile technologies and evolution of mobile handsets, according to a company press releas

Another exploding cell phone incident, reported this time in Hong Kon

Interesting insight into the mobile phone business in China, by Perry Wu, for China Tech New

Customers of Italy's three GSM network operators can now use their phones while traveling through the motorway network of the Great S

Virgin Mobile UK today announced the launch of its radical new entertainment service, Virgin Mobile BITES, offering “Bite-sized boredom busters” to customers, according to a company press releas

Smart Communications, the Philippines' largest cellular service provider, introduced during the weekend a cash remittance service via text messaging that will cater mainly to millions of Filipinos working overseas, reports Yahoo Bi

You're in a hurry to get out of the carpark, but some double-parking so-and-so has blocked your way with his car, and there's no way for you to contact hi

I was so stunned to read this morning that Steve Jobs underwent cancer surgery, and so relieved to know he will be alrigh

According to The Chicago Tribune, whether it's safe or not to talk on a cell phone while driving, is dividing the natio

The Victoria Police (Australia) warns of an alarming rise in road fatalities linked to mobile phones and something not often written about, how young people are text messaging while at the whee