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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