SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2004 / 08 / 23

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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