SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2004 / 09

A blast from the past; ""How to Make Friends by Telephone

Following the Man of the Crowd is another Spectropolis 2004 project that anyone in New York City can participate in on October 2-3, reports Popgadge

Looking to give college-bound students an edge, Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions has teamed with Handmark to develop a wirelessly accessible test preparation application, reports Wireless Wee

Canadian journalist Saleem Khan, writing for TheFeatur

The mobile-phone industry and the The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers are expectedly shortly to announce plans to address exploding mobile phones, possibly with an eye to crafting industry standards for batteries, which are suspected as the cause of the problem, reports RCRNew

Handhelds are likelier to lead to handcuffs for techie criminals following the release of a report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, reports New

SMS prices in Europe vary from country to countr

A teen texting service has been opened up to more youngsters following its huge success, reports Cambridge News U

Thanks to an innovative application of cellphone technology, a South African clinic is on the verge of becoming a paperless operation, reports All Afric

The Register has been having a good time testing AQA, a mobile "Ask Experts" service recently launched with much merriment in the U

A new service in South Africa allows motorists to check for outstanding driving and parking fines via cellphone, according to ITWe

Give me a P! Give me an H! Give me an O-N-E!

Customers with Get It Now-capable phones to customize their phones with insignias from their alma matte

Auckland's young theatre buffs could soon have easier access to cheap tickets and inside information on the stars of shows, reports xtrams

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In order to craft the most accurate poll, political polling institutions like the Gallup Organization want their surveys to have an equal chance of reaching every

Long-running efforts to transmit alerts to cellphones in the event of dangerous weather, terror attacks or other emergencies are gaining momentum, reports the WS

A pregnant woman was handcuffed by police and forced onto her stomach during an arrest that began with her talking too loudly on her mobile phone, according to BreakingNews Irelan

Federal officials are investigating how a smuggled cell phone got into the hands of a federal inmate housed at the Hammond City Jail in the past month, reports The Northwest Indiana Time

Frost & Sullivan expects a significant drop in the contribution of SMS toward mobile data revenues from 90% in 2003 to 40% in 200

The Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority (NPT) had a historic announcement to make at a press conference on Monday, reports Aftenposte

The more functions cell phone manufacturers add, the greater the amount of power the phones use and the less practical running them on lithium batteries becomes -- so the race to find a viable alternative is o

Another incident of an exploding cell phone battery, this time in the U

Clamshells will account for 37% of handset sales worldwide in 2004, rising steadily to account for the majority of sales by the end of 2007 according to a new report from Strategy Analytics, reports Cellular New

Aiming to please "texting-crazed" young Americans, AT&T Wireless Services In

Cell phones and wireless PDAs have one perennial problem: either no keyboard or a very small on

The Kyoto prefectural government will launch a project in December to lend 500 mobile phones with language-translation and road-navigation functions to foreign visitors, reports The Daily Yomiur

Urballoon is an urban media space: a balloon equipped with a projector and wireless connection to the web that enables people to submit content online and broadcast it in public space

Mia over at Popgadget, reports on a one night event called Sky Ear in which a glowing "cloud" of mobile phones and helium balloons is released into the air so that people can dial into the cloud and listen to the sounds of the sk

An SMS contest in terrible taste is stoppe

With the election five weeks away,

This article from Fox describes the quandry schools are in to forbid or forbid not cell phone

An amazing story about a cell phone stolen in church - in Nigeria and the pastor's (unsuccessful) endeavour to get it back, reported by the Guardian News Nigeri

On any given day, the local Emergency Management Agency and E-911 center receives numerous 911 hangup

Six Egyptian engineers working for the mobile telephone company that provides service to central Iraq have been abducted in the past several days, and a company official warned that the phone network would shut down if its remaining foreign workers fled the country in fear, reports SFGat

Major League Baseball is making league news, scores and standings, video highlights, radio feeds - and perhaps even tickets, hot dogs and sodas down the road - available to fans via their wireless phones, reports Technology News

Three weeks ago, MLB and Nokia launched a service that, for $

The term "behind the scenes" takes on a whole new meaning when it comes to describing London Fashion Week (Sept 19-23), as fabrics get more high-tech and science becomes a key part of the business, reports CN

The Digital Museum of Modern Art optimized its exhibit Presidentially Speaking: Cronies, Nannies, Fautors & Fops for cellphone exhibitio

This week, Australia´s peak mobile phone association, the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) and social scientists announced release of a Discussion Paper for a research framework to determine what impact the mobile phone has had on societ

Smuggled cell phones account for 50 per cent of the market, said the Legislation Board of HCM City People’s Council on Wednesday, reports Vietnam New

Romania's top footballer, Marian Aliuta, has left his club after mistakenly sending a critical text message to the owner, reports Onlypunja

Cell phones are giving employers new ways to check up on employees in the field--and raising fresh workplace privacy concerns as a result, reports New

Mobile payment technology firm Upaid has launched 'Text cheque', a service that enables merchants to collect bill payments via mobile phones, reports Vnune

This is definitely one of the craziest stories related to cell phones, coming out of all places - no, not California - Japan: The breast enlarging rington

In an average lecture hall, it seems that one can hear more than just the droning of a professo

NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator, will join

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Experts have dismissed a suggestion that mobile phone radio waves could help children think more clearly, reports the BB

An astounding 100 million cellphones will be taken out of service in the

A recent demonstration by Airbus marked another step forward for travelers who would like to use their cellphones on airplane

African leaders will launch a global fund to help people in poor countries buy mobile phones and Internet access as a step out of poverty and into economic growth, the president of Senegal said on Wednesday, reports Reuters

"There are more telephones in Manhattan than in all Africa," President Abdoulaye Wade said at a news conference held on the sidelines of a

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NTT DoCoMo Inc said Tuesday the phone numbers of 56,396 of its clients were leaked after a personal computer containing the data was stolen in early Septembe

As early as April 2005, a new service using mobile phones equipped with global positioning systems will allow Canadian parents to monitor their teen's location, driving habits (including rate of speed) over the Internet, reports Ottawa Citize

A proposal for a wireless phone directory raises concerns in Congres

You can now order a pizza from the comfort of your mobile phone - if you live in Australia, according to SMS Response Australia's press release

"The system uses a combination of SMS and email: the customer SMS' their order to the store's numbe

More than half of consumers are unhappy with the price they pay for mobile calls, according to a study into the European mobile market by consultancy Capgemini, reports the BB

Market research firm TNS found that (American) children start carrying cell phones from age 10 to 14 -- roughly around the time they start becoming more active in after-school activities and start taking on more independence, reports the Mercury New

Florida's Channel 9 has discovered another controversial toy, a toy cell phone with a picture of Osama bin Laden on it with one word above it, "Kin

A latest study claims there is no scientific evidence that mobile phone use or exposure to base stations below internationally accepted levels pose a health risk, radiation authorities in the Nordic countries said on Tuesday, reports The Ag

An Israeli telecommunications firm has developed a telephone to help deaf people who can lip-read, the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot reported on Tuesday, reports IO

Reuters in Berlin reports that Siemens is developing the first mobile phone that will detect unpleasant odor

Screenwriter Larry Cohen hit the jackpot in the late nineties with his sale of the spec scripts Phone Booth and Cellula

Eric Gwinn for The Chicago Tribune takes an insightful look at how teenage kids function today and how a whole group of children is being left behind because there's still no bridge across the digital divid

Screenwriter Larry Cohen hit the jackpot in the late nineties with his sale of the spec scripts Phone Booth and Cellula

Screenwriter Larry Cohen hit the jackpot in the late nineties with his sale of the spec scripts Phone Booth and Cellula

Philadelphia International Airport joins the growing list of airports to provide a temporary parking space for motorists on their way to pick up passengers, who notifiy them by cell phone once they've lande

Mobile Streams, a mobile content company, announces the launch of a range of innovative Pay-to-Play mobile betting games including a choice of three reel slots and scratchcard

The new portal is a part of an overall project to between China Netcom and the Population Education Center to provide sex education services, according to Interfax: Chin

A customised and comprehensive banking service designed especially and exclusively for women, called meLADY, has been launched by Emirates Bank International, reports AME Inf

Actor Kevin Spacey has attacked audiences who allow their mobile phones to ring during a theatre performance, saying visitors should learn to behave, reports the BB

Yesterday, September 19th, CHIPS vzw released a booklet compiling the text messages that were sent during the SMS textproject Stads Chromosome

Philippine mobile carriers topped the list of 32 operators worldwide whose whose revenues from data exceeded 15 percent, reports the AF

Even during classes, cell phones are still on, reports South Korean dong

Rushkoff's Journal for TheFeatur

A Swiss woman who drove her car into a police van, killing two officers, while sending a mobile phone text message has been sentenced to 30 months in prison, reports The BB

South Korea's Samsung Electronics claimed breakthroughs in key technologies that promise greater data storage and faster processing for computers and mobile devices such as MP3 audio players, reports the Associated Pres

The world will have almost two billion mobile telephone users by 2006 due to growth in emerging markets such as India and China, the head of Swedish giant Ericsson revealed, according to the Associated Pres

Carol's Journal on TheFeatur

Fed up with cellphones ringing during Mass, four Catholic churches in Monterrey, Mexico, are taking extreme measures to silence the

Australia's main opposition Labor Party has pledged to make telephone contracts fairer and set up an inquiry into short messaging service, or SMS, charges in a telecommunications charter released Monday, reports Cellular New

China's first novel delivered through SMS is being made into a film that will also be transmitted to cellphones and on the Internet, state media reported via China Dail

Pantech&Curitel, known as Hyundai Curitel in the global market, plans to launch P1, Korea’s first mobile phone with TTS or Text To Speech function, the company announced Sunda

Indonesian police hunting the men believed to be behind the Australian embassy bombing on September 9th say they have since received a steady stream of bomb threats or warnings by text messaging, reports ABC Radio Australi

As millions buy increasingly powerful cell phones, many companies are racing to develop video games to take advantage of the newfound portability, report KLT

Despite their hefty price and relatively limited functions (no camera function), Nokia's expensive Vertu phones, are becoming sought-after status symbols in Asia, reports Channel News Asia

"Self-made millionaires, celebrities, high-flying professionals and ladies who lunch are flashing Vertus made of precious metals, ceramic and leather at one another in Asia's corporate boardrooms and country club

Interesting, in trying to make sense of the polls on the presidential candidates, are they way off since they're not touching cell phones? The Dallas Morning News writes "The rise of cell phones has made it harder for pollsters to track down respondents, analysts said, and a rising number of people don't want to participate at al

Pantech unveiled three futuristic phones with unusual designs, a multimedia phone, an MP3 phone and unusual, an Aero phone - which looks like it might fly away - that measures the air pollutio

According to research by Cable & Wireless, conducted among 2,000 UK consumers focusing on the retail, travel and financial sectors, new marketing techniques such as text messaging are damaging consumer trust in brands, reports Brand Republi

Keitai Log is back since last week! An occasional Web diary by a group of Tokyo college students who are researching the changing role of cell phones -- keitai -- in Japanese societ

DMEurope The Financial Times and Sony Ericsson have announced a new mobile service that allows consumers to read up-to-date global business and financial news, comment and analysis from F

A post-graduate student at the University of Oslo has developed a method for users to spoof the origins of SMS (Short Message Service) texts sent by mobile phone, reports Aftenposte

Connect to Art is a new dimension of art and Nokia's answer to artists' need to find new, innovative channels for artistic expression and ways to reach new and existing audiences by using new method

In Korea, A new insurance product, which indemnifies a lost cell phone, is getting popularity, reports Telecoms Kore

RTV China is launching a new service allowing people to learn English in an integrated way, reports adverblo

For the first time, MIT researchers have incorporated a plant's ability to convert sunlight to energy into a solid-state electronic “spinach sandwich” device that may one day power laptops and cell phones, reports PhysOr

US mobile users can subscribe to a daily Bible scripture sent by text messaging thanks to mfait

UK Mobile users can now find out where a nearby wi-fi hotspot is, simply by sending a text message to a short code, reports the BB

Cell phones are going to the dogs, according to Kiro7 TV and Mobile TechNew

"Indonesia's mobile operator Mobile-8 Telecom has joined up with a fortune teller to provide a future prediction service to subscribers via short messages (SMS),"reports the The Sydney Morning Herald via Smart Mob

Every driver involved in an accident is set to have their mobile phone checked by police under tough new proposals to crack down on handset misuse behind the wheel, reports Auto Express via de

LG Mobile Phones today announced the winner of its "Fashion Talks LG" contest, whereby aspiring designers were challenged to create daring designs that feature an LG Mobile Phone as either an integrated part of the whole design, or a must-have accessor

The American Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Emmy Awards is running an interactive mobile Emmy Trivia Challenge as part of it's 56th annual awards, reports Mike Grenville for 160character

An alcoholic who sent a threatening text message to a British National party whistleblower was cautioned under the Malicious Communications Act, but spared jail yesterday because of his drink problem, reports The Guardia

A new cellular application promises to help vision-impaired people who can't read the screen of a mobile phone, reports The Su

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In several weeks, a Johnson County pilot project is expected to be launched to test a promising new technology that could better safeguard mental health caseworkers from violence, reports the Kansas City Sta

Metro Manila policemen have been directed to create special teams that would go after cell phone thieves in the wake of the growing number of killings and other crimes triggered by cell phone robberies, reports Inq

China's Qiao Xing Universal Telephone has launched 13 new cell phone models and "each has been uniquely designed for particular consumer groups, The fall into one of four categories: handwriting recognition, PDA, camera and fashion, according to a company press releas

India's booming cellphone market is adding

European planemaker Airbus reported progress on Wednesday in plans to allow passengers to use mobile phones in flight, beginning in 2006, reports Reuter

Cingular Wireless has partnered with content providers Vindigo, Tele Atlas, Digital Cyclone and Handango to offer a suite of mobile travel-related applications, reports RCR Wireless New

Yet another article on cell phones creating havoc in priso

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Why is the idea of voice messaging appealing? IT Analysi

A survey released Tuesday has found strong support among business travelers for in-flight use of cell phones, reports TechWe

Music, videos and games could soon be swapped between cellphones using a mobile file-sharing network developed by phone maker Nokia, reports New Scientist Magazin

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A couple exchanged vows in what's believed to be the first marriage-by-proxy in California, reports NappaNew

The Blood Center, the state's largest blood center, will launch a pilot program -- the first of its kind in the US -- enabling the organization to directly alert specific blood donors and volunteers in "real time" via wireless text messaging, according to an AT&T company press releas

Not related to cell phones, just a shameless act of self promotion and a peek at the cover of our new book (in French) on blogs currently at the printing pres

With young Norwegians more likely to send a mobile phone text message than a post card, the postal service Tuesday revealed text message theme stamps in a bid to draw them back to letter writing, reports the Associated Pres

From Rushkoff's Journal in TheFeatur

As the mobile phone has become a part of our life, it is always exposed to touch of hand

Bango, who claims to be" the world's biggest channel for mobile content", has revealed the buying patterns of over two million users and identified the three most common types of mobile content consumers - Nibblers, Grazers and Porker

Proctor and Gamble launches mobile services as part of a marketing campaign for "Herbal Essences", according to a company press release - considering it a powerful channel to reach teenager

In July, a Japanese company unveiled flower speaker, called Ka-on, a gadget that turns plants into audio speakers, making the petals and leaves tremble with good vibrations, reports USA Today via near near futur

SK Telecom demonstrated a file sharing application that lets mobile phone users swap files over its 3G network at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom Asia 2004 conference in Busan, South Korea, reports 3G Newsroo

The legislation passed 19 months ago, but few people, it seems, have taken note that chatting on your cellphone in a New York City movie theater is now illegal, reports The New York Time

A plug in box enables a PC to be used to send and receive SMS from BT landlines in the UK, reports 160character

Firms are now designing handsets and payment systems that work for those who would not normally be able to afford mobile services, reports CN

Doctors and nurses at Silicon Valley's El Camino Hospital use Wi-Fi not just to send e-mail, but also to talk to each other, reports USA Toda

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A Text message apparently warning of a terrorist attack shortly before the Australian embassy in Jakarta was bombed may never have existed, Australian Federal Police admitted today, reports The Herald Sun

Now there will be no more excuses when you say 'thanks - I owe you one' but never actually get round to buying your friend a drin

Studies of technology in cars have focused on cell phones, and one of the first things researchers learned is that the problems and benefits are poorly understood, reports Reuter

This is not related to cell phones, but to chatterbots, to whom over the years, I have spent some time talking t

"Meet the one you met for thousands of years, in the borderless wilderness of the time, neither a step before nor a step behin

Synaptics introduces MobileTouch, a new and innovative interface for mobile phone

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Grameen Bank, famous for pioneering micro-credit programs in Bangladesh, has launched a new idea to empower the poor: arming beggars with mobile phones so they can sell a roving service for cash, reports Reuter

Language technology company Linguit has announced the UK-wide launch of Nugget

Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Buongiorno will be offering The Pink Panther mobile content in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, according to 160character

Today is Teacher's Day in Chin

What I would obviously wear to a Halloween part

Have you ever gone online to get driving directions, only to leave the printout behind? Have you made movie plans, but forgot to jot down the show times? Or do you simply need an easy way to feed phone numbers to your cell phone?

A trio of entrepreneurs believe they have a solution, reports The Associated Pres

Vodacom has unveiled South Africa's first initiative to make cellular communications accessible to all South Africans, especially people with disabilities, reports More Mobil

As of October 1st, Telecom Italia subscribers will be able to pay their phone bills at any one of the 20'000 Puntolis tobacconist outlets across Italy, using bancomat card

According to this article which I don't fully understand in Digital Chosunilbo, there exists a big loophole in the system of managing personal information of mobile phone subscriber

Ananova reports that the Police received a cell phone text message before the Australian Embassy bombing, warning that foreign missions in Jakarta would be attacked unless the alleged head of the Jemaah Islamiyah terror group was freed, Australia's foreign minister sai

Textual @traction is a new film about text messaging which has been selected to compete for Best Short Film, Best Foreign Film and Best Drama, at this year's Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, reports icWale

AT&T Wireless customers can now send an receive text messages back and forth from North America to Mexico, according to DesignTechnic

Tegic has put together a "T9® Dictionary," a resource to help texters stay on top of the latest slang terms, according to LinuxElectron

This story in The Korea Times is doubly interestin

It should be easier for mobile phone users to discover the amount of radiation generated by their handsets, a leading expert has said, reports the BB

Danish doctors are developing a smart bandage to monitor wounds as they heal, reports the BBC, via near near futu

Korean mobile phone users ranked 4th in terms of monthly mobile phone tariff among Asia-Pacific nations, according to Telecoms Kore

Panasonic announced on Wednesday a DVD recorder designed to let consumers program recording remotely over the Internet--including via cell phones, reports CNET Asi

Cingular Wireless customers can now access their Yahoo! Messenger accounts and send/receive instant messages on their wireless phones through a full-color, graphical interface called Mobile Instant Messaging, according to a company press releas

In response to security concerns, Nokia has announced that it will be updating its handsets against malicious hacking via Bluetooth, according to InfoSync Worl

Jeremy Wagstaff for Loose Wire picks up on an interesting post by David Brake at Blo

Not cell phone related, but a wonderful article from the Associated Pres

A must read article, warning us to be cautious, as ubiquitous technology - now a part of our every day lives - will not be without consequence

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Youth, indigenous peoples, poverty and education will top the agenda this week as hundreds of people from across the globe gather in Winnipeg for the Disabled Peoples' International World Summit 2004, reports The Winnipeg Su

Like public phone booths, pagers are facing extinction due to the rise and popularity of mobile phones, according to the New Scotsman, in an interesting article which traces back pager history and hightlight

Base 25, A UK charity offering advice on subjects such as relationship and health issues is using text messages to communicate with teenagers, reports the BBC

"Text Talk allows troubled youngsters to send a text to a dedicated number and receive an immediate respons

Xeni Jardin reports back on last week's post questioning whether T-Mobile blocked TXTmob messages during the RN

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E-Media Tidbits has a wonderful story related from Denmark, via the MetroXpres

Doctors and psychologists have blamed cell phones for a wide variety of afflictions - such as making children fat, bringing on RSI, giving a headache or an earache, triggering the onset of Alzheimer, creating an addictive disorder, undercuting male fertility, encouraging teenage promiscious sex or leading to sexually transmitted disease

Only mildy related to cell phones, a distant cousin really, but I find it quite wonderfu

Engadget reports on a story in the The New York Times on the difficult time hotel guest have in getting cell phone reception - raising the question if hotels in America are using cell phone jamming device

In what it calls a first in international air travel, Finnair says it will let its frequent fliers check in using text messages on mobile phones as of October, reports The Associated Pres

Gerrit Visser for Smart Mobs reports on a free sms-alarm service that warns registered citizens of the city of Harderwijk in case of calamitie

In South Africa, public sector unions are striking following their rejection of a government 6% wage increase offer - sent by SMS, according to SABC New

Following Sunday's post on an Italian text message which called out for people to remember the hundreds of children killed in the Russian hostage drama by lighting candles, the vigil has spread to Finland, according to Helsingin Sanoma

"While it has taken more than 100 years for Asia to reach a billion users in mobile and fixed-line telephony, what's significant is that the next billion will be reached well before the end of the decade," said Yoshio Utsumi, secretary ceneral of the International Telecommunications Unio

Samsung claims that the SPH-V5400, which was launched in Japan, is the first mobile phone to include a hard driv

About 1000 new words have entered our language since the last edition of the Collins English Dictionary came out two years ago, reports EDP2

There will no longer be any reason to be late or lose your way in South Korea, thanks to SK Telecom's newly launched 'NATE Pedestrian Navigator Service', according to Telecoms Kore

Australian IT reports that in coming months taxi passengers around Australia will find the hi-tech, internet-accessible screens, and

Another Teen magazine goes texting in the UK, reports dot Journalis

Last week, AT&T Wireless and Upoc Networks hosted a moderated, live "TXT Chat" for fans of swimming phenomenon Michael Phelp

The Korea Times has an insightful article on how everyday life in Korea is rapidly going mobile, thanks to the advanced mobile infrastructure in plac

Every publisher can make money from mobile, quickly and with little investmen

Some inside information on the actual text messages sent by dispatchers last week during the Republican National Conventio

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China's Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate have jointly issued a new judicial interpretation for criminal cases concerning the production, duplication, publication, sale and dissemination of pornographic material via the Internet, mobile communications terminals and fixed-line telephone networks, reports Interfa

Belgium's will pilot a new traffic collection technology for measuring real time traffic flow based on anonymously sampling the positions of mobile phones in moving vehicles, according to Cellular New

Singapore is harnessing the power of SMS text messaging to fight an old scourge: bullying in schools, reports The Ag

Oxfordshire County Council is trying to encourage more people to sign up to their

Something readers of this column have known for some time, but here is an official study, confirming text messaging is a wonderful technology for anyone who is Deaf or hearing impaire

A group of fishermen in Bohol (Philippines) is using cell phones and text messaging to monitor marine resources as part of efforts to strengthen a community-led campaign against illegal fishing in the area, reports The Manilla Time

The number of MP3 mobile phones that mobile phone producers market domestically (Korea) will break 5 million units by the end of this year, according to the Daily Chosunilb

Interesting, in College towns at football season, cell phone companies have to boost their local network capacit

Candles have been placed in the windows of thousands of homes throughout Italy in response to a text message calling on people to remember the hundreds of children killed in the Russian hostage drama, reports New

Katie Fehrenbacher for Engadget reports on a horrifying story which happened to Jason Jepson, CEO of Star3

A magazine that campaigns for fair trade has launched a text messaging petition to urge world leaders to put the issue on the agenda of the next G8 summit, reports Digital Bulleti

boingboing links to a Website that collects photos of fake trees that serve to disguise mobile phone signal tower

In what authorities said was the first GPS stalking case in Los Angeles County, Ara Gabrielyan, 32, was charged Tuesday with stalking and threatening over a six-month period to kill his former girlfriend and himself, reports The Daily News Unwire

Mobile phones are becoming a significant security threat in Australian correctional facilities, an investigation into the Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre (MRRC) in Silverwater, NSW, has revealed, reports ZDne

In a good example how business gets the (SMS) message, an article in New York State's Record describes how Ray & Sons has stayed in business for over 100 years and how today, mobile technology plays an important par

Registered users of TxMob received the following e-mail from the admistration of TxtMo

With so many people carrying their mobile phones with them 24-hours a day – text message marketing is a hugely effective way to promote nightclubs, offers and promotions, according to More Mobil

Hollywood heartthrob Tom Cruise gave his fans even more reason to love him after he mingled with them for three hours during the London premier of his new movie "Collateral", reports Web Indi

As the holiday weekend approaches so too does Hurricane Frances, threatening Alabama and Northwest Florida over the weeken

An excellent article written by David Washburn for the San Diego Union Tribune, comparing how the relationship between protesters and police has evolved since the Vietnam Wa

Future Now reports on Banryu, "whimsically called neo dinosaurs, or small robots with legged locomotion, with some autonom

near near future reports on a Korean software company, Logic Plant, that has launched a program callled The Telekeeper that informs parents about their children's computer use by sending them information on visited Web sites to their mobile phones in real tim

Targeting cell phone users who are not even reading or writing, Jamdat Mobile has inked a deal with Nickelodeon to develop games for wireless devices based on two of the network's popular children's television series, "Blue's Clues" and "Dora the Explorer", according to Wireless Wee

Orange has launched Talk Now, its commercial "push-to-talk" service, following nine months of customer trials across Europe, according to The Registe

Cingular Wireless announced that it is teaming with ESPN and ABC Sports to provide cell phone users with the ability to vote via text messaging for their top All American Player every week, reports Wireless Wee

According to Telecoms Korea, Samsung Sells Best in Franc

Games giant Electronic Arts is making a serious move into mobile gaming, reports the BB

Global sales of mobile telephones hit a record 156 million in the second quarter, a study published by the US research group Gartner showed, reports the AF

Old mobile phones are to be recycled into personal alarms for women who suffer violence from their partners, reports the BBC

"The scheme, piloted in south London, is to be rolled out to Birmingham, Glasgow, Bristol, Norwich and the rest of London over the next six month

Mobystar's Maxinote's is a fast and friendly on-screen keypa

The first project in Europe to use satellites to track paedophiles and other offenders is being launched, reports Ananov

The use of global positioning systems and mobile data is helping one local UK council keep the streets clean and meet EU targets on recycling, reports the The Guardia

NEC has developed a 3D LCD display with "the world's highest level of detail," at 235ppi (pixels per inch), according to TechJapa

Texting was the most prevalent technology at the Republican National Convention, and some protesters who lacked it felt uncool, reports the Associated Pres

A jealous lover lured his rival to a hotel by sending him a text message on his former girlfriend's phone before beating him up, reports The Australian

"He pleaded guilty yesterday to assaulting the man who suffered bodily harm

China Telecom and China Mobile have reached an agreement that will allow China Telecom's fixed-line subscribers and China Mobile's GSM subscribers to exchange text messages, reports interfa

Independent (South African) Democrats leader Patricia de Lille has sent out 6 500 SMSes to councillors across the country urging them to defect to her party, according to one of her MPs, Avril Harding, reports the Mail&Guardian Onlin

Mobile phone users are set to strike it rich when the National Lottery launches an interactive text message game, later this year, according to vnune

The growth of text messaging and popularity of internet reunion sites were blamed yesterday for a rise in the divorce rate, which is at a seven-year high, reports UK's Independent, at it's highest total since 199