SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2004 / 10

Throughout the first two weeks of their annual month of prayer and fasting, Nigerian Muslims have been bombarded by mobile telephone text messages urging them to pray for US President George

Just as blogging has revolutionized election-year reporting, text messaging via cell phones and PDAs has served as a constant reminder to the mobile community that it's time to vote, reports eWeek, who looks into the organizations which targeted young voters with politically themed text message

Here is a survey portraying the top three functions used most frequently on a portable devic

Ever wish you could use your cell phone as a navigator? That you could point it in the direction you're walking and have it guide you to the nearest Starbucks or, in an emergency, the closest hospital?

San Francisco's GeoVector plans to let you do just that, as well as play outside adventure games and locate friends and famil

New cellphone technology launched on Friday by the Johannesburg Metro Police Department will enable officers, through the touch of a button, to get updated information on both the vehicles and their driver

A good article in New

Steve Mansfield, vice president of marketing with AuthenTec, estimates that new biometric features will be built into mobile phones in China during the first half of next yea

The colour LCD screens on cellphones and PDAs can get badly scratched in pockets stuffed with loose change and key

Mobile phones, text messaging, computers -- these are the new weapons of dissent in modern Chin

Like political candidates crisscrossing the Sunshine State in the final days before Election Day, November 2, teams of Verizon Wireless technicians have been canvassing Florida to test and boost wireless coverage for residents and the thousands of visitors now descending on the important political battleground stat

Video game and mobile phone companies are set to make money this year as customers use phones to zap space invaders or sink game-winning golf putts, pushing the mobile gaming market over $1 billion, reports Reuter

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Smarting from the bad publicity surrounding a pedophile case involving mobile phone chat-rooms, Vodafone Australia announced its intention to employ round-the-clock moderators and install profanity filter

Kyocera Wireless, along with the

Female executives are holding their own in the nation's male-dominated mobile phone industry with its third-largest handset maker Pantech Group and frontrunning wireless carrier SK Telecom leading the way, reports the The Korea Time

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Web analytics agency,Webtraffiq announces the launch of their new SMS and email alert service, WebtraffIQ Alert

Yahoo added a search feature for cell phones Wednesday, Yahoo! Mobile Search just a few weeks after rival Google launched one of its own, reports Asia C/Ne

For the winter season, something to keep your cell phone war

An 18 year old girl was killed Sunday night in a head-on traffic collision in Citrus Heights, Californi

Keen to spread the message of the benefits of having a small family, the government of Pakistan's Punjab province has introduced a novel way to promote it, by text messaging, reports new keral

Political polling outfits exclude cell phone users from this year's presidential survey

Swiss mobile customers of wireless operator Swisscom, can send a text message to find out where the nearest doctor or hospital is, thanks to a new service provided by Sanday (”Santé (health) every day”

Shipments from vendors reached 168 million units, up 2

Mobile phone group 3 is tapping into the "chav" phenomenon, modifying its current advertising campaign to include a character complete with Burberry-style peaked cap, reports the MediaGuardia

networked_performance reports on a a project by Amos Latteier, Call of the Wild "a series of audio tours of downtown Portland that are accessed by cell phon

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Beginning this fall, Samsung and Vogue will debut an unprecedented co-marketing program, including a highly-targeted, high-fashion advertising campaign, exclusive promotional and multi-media content partnerships with Styl

The Federal Communications Commission gave its approval Tuesday to Cingular Wireless's $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services In

A new mobile advertising scheme aims to target captive Malaysian (bus) passenger

Mobile phone users around the world will spend $1 billion a year on pornography sent to their handsets by 2008, which may boost the wireless services sector much as it fueled growth in the fixed-line Internet, a market research firm said, reports Reuter

A 16-year-old French girl was kidnapped and shot dead in western France by a jilted boyfriend she had met by text messages sent over a cell phone, a public prosecutor in the area said, reports the New Zealand Heral

Supplementary services offered by mobile telecommunications companies are getting better and bette

Fans of 70s rock band Wishbone Ash will be given the chance to vote for the song that they wish to hear in the encore at this years AshCon concert via SM

Short text messaging service has been introduced after each card payment, Bulgaria's banking card operator Borika announced via the Sofia News Agenc

97% of Korean college students use SMS everyday, 40% more than 10 times a day, according to a “Study on New Media Communications used by College Students” reported by Chang Sang-uhn, professor of Pukyong National University, via Telecoms Korea Wearable PC Fashion Show; Combine Technologies with fashion

Korea's first Wearable PC Fashion Show will take palce Wednesday at COEX in Seoul, reports Telecoms Kore

A Polish researcher has found two vulnerabilities in the cell phone version of Sun Microsystems' Java software that under unusual circumstances could let a malicious program read private information or render a phone unusabl

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Mobile phone users have outstripped traditional landline connections in India, according to the industry, marking a major lifestyle and communications milestone for the rapidly changing country, reports the The Associated Pres

Mobile phones are being used to try to make the lives of people with diabetes easier by high-speed data transfer, reports the BB

Did cellphones prevent an ugly situation at Yankee Stadium from getting uglier?

At a recent ballgame, in a disputed play - where no announcement explaining what had happened was made and no replay was shown on the scoreboard -- (Major League Baseball forbids teams from showing close or disputed calls) - fans immediately began dialing up friends and family to find out what had happened - who gave them a verbal rundown of the replay seen on T

As it searches for new revenue sources, Nokia Cor

The government coalition in Japan is preparing a law to outlaw prepaid mobile phone

Régine for Popgadget blogs about a polygraph which can analyze a speaker's mental state, indicating whether a person tells the truth, tries to "outsmart" you, is "highly" excited or just telling plain lie

I bet this service will do very well!

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CNN has launched an online and SMS based marketing initiative 'US Election 2004 Poll' competition, reports Indian Televisio

Nissan has joined forces with NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest cell phone provider, to offer‘i-mode’ information services delivered to drivers’ mobile phones using Nissan’s CARWINGS telematics syste

To help parents ensure a safe Halloween,

New Yorkers aren't exactly shy about voicing their opinions, and in this election year everyone wants their voice to be heard and their vote to be counte

Surfing the Internet is easy with a third-generation (

Scientists at Manchester University have revealed a groundbreaking discovery that could lead to safer cars, better computers and faster mobile phones, reports Manchester Onlin

A new scheme to allow people with disabilities to send a text message to summon help from emergency services is being launched in Hong Kong, according to the BB

If the phone companies are to be believed, this time next year we'll all be wearing our mobiles round our necks as some sort of fashion statement, reports Shiny Shin

Several groups of activist technologists who develop and deploy political tools joined in a nonpartisan gathering September 30 - October 2 to discuss the political use and relevance of SM

The fixed line phone in the home could soon disappear, a study by mobile firm Nokia shows, reports the BB

A new location-based Bluetooth customer service system will begin operation later this week in Sydney, according to Gizm

Activision Value Publishing has paired with Airborne Entertainment In

A desktop mobile linking a traditional landline to the mobile phone network is being presented at the inventors fair by Burnside Telecom, reports the BB

Watching teens use phones in their natural environments gave a group of researchers insights into how future handsets aimed at the youth market should be designe

I want one! A handbag that reminds you if you forget your cell phon

I forgot to announce that Régine from near near future was guest blogging for Textually yesterday

A lost and found service claims it can help get your misplaced or lost items back with a simple labe

A teenager sent a terrifying SMS to her parents telling them she had been abducted, gang-raped, and was being held against her wil

Brighton’s Creation nightclub is celebrating the success of QJump, a new service which enables club goers to by-pass the queue simply by sending a text messag

Children in the Irish Republic are not as physically active as children in Northern Ireland, reports RTE New

In malaysian, a mobile coupon service allows cell phone users to download discounts, according to The Sta

Vienna has opted for payment by mobile phone rather than install parking meter

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US engineers are working on chip-based “microengines” that could one day power mobile electronic device

The New York Times reports that diners at The Vineyard (Bentonville, Ar

BBC News reports that a group of parents fighting plans for a mobile phone mast near three schools in Harrogate (Yorkshire, UK) will present a 2,000-name petition to the office of the Prime Ministe

Telefonino announces that immigrants from non-European countries living in the region of Turin (Northern Italy) will be allowed to "book" the renewal of their residence permit via SMS up to 90 days before the expiry dat

RFID in Japan has a link to pictures of the "Maibi Card Strap", a Korean mobile phone accessory that allows for RFID payment

According to an automobile publication called Motoring, Volvo had the equivalent of a high-speed milk float powered by giant versions of cellphone batteries as part of its display at the Michelin Challenge Bibendum in Shanghai, Chin

A new awareness campaign highlighting the dangers of using a mobile phone while driving has been launched by the Victorian government, reports The Sydney Morning Heral

Robots are reading out SMS messages to UK landline phone customers who don't have a mobile phone, reports The Australian

"Not being able to read an SMS, the recipient on the landline will hear it spoken by a synthesised female voic

Masabi, a producer of consumer and mobile marketing java applications for mobile phones, today launched Pick The Prez, a free java game which allows players to bash the candidate of their choice and then cast their vote in an online pol

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EMS is a mobile phone craft project created for the New Forms Festival 2004 by Kate Pemberto

Or so says the company FunMail, for its Mobile Comics Network (MCN) servic

A California newspaper is using SMS for instant polling in the presidential election with participants receiving mobile coupons for a meal at a local restaurant, reports 160character

KTF and Korean Red Cross provide emergency blood donation service using handsets, the mobile operator announced Tuesday, reports Telecoms Kore

A study by Queensland University of Technology (Australia) found out that bullying by mobile phone or email is more likely to have a bad affect on victims than a traditional face to face encounter, as many child victims felt they had no place to hide, nor method of direct retaliatio

Engadget reports that a company has develpped a Mobile phone Automobile Security System (MASS), which is a device that allows car owners to monitor and control their cars via SM

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A really nice story in the WSJ today:

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Research out of Australian universities on text-based mobile messaging could herald good news for the deaf in the United States -- if cellular carriers can agree to improve interoperability between networks, reports Wire

Education authorities in some cities are distributing mobile phone signal detectors to adult college entrance exam supervisors to try to prevent cheating, reports Chin

As of late September, the number of mobile subscribers in Korea totals 36,146,555, according to Telecoms Kore

A growing number of people rely solely on cell phones to make and take calls, putting them out of reach of polling organizations trying to get a fix on the American electorate, reports CN

The jarring polychromatic din of ringing cell phones is increasingly being thwarted — from religious sanctuaries to India's parliament to Tokyo theaters and commuter trains — by devices originally developed to help security forces avert eavesdropping and thwart phone-triggered bombings, reports the Associated Pres

Confronted by stiff competition from popular reality shows and strong new scripted dramas, the producers of one of television's most lucrative franchises, "Law & Order," have decided to fight back by letting viewers vote to save or kill one of its running characters, a television first, according to the NY Time

Cell phones, text messaging and delivery on the fly -- if it sounds like the formula for a successful product distribution network, it was -- for crack cocaine, reports New England local newspaperThe Cal

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh received 42,000 SMS and e-mail greetings and collected over 9,200 bouquets as he celebrated his 52nd birthday, reports the Hindustan Time

Medical check-ups could soon be carried out via mobile phones, thanks to German technology, according to The Registe

London mayor Ken Livingstone is looking to introduce electronic voting across the capital in time for the next Greater London Authority mayoral elections in 2008, according to Silico

Young women from the age of 15 are being sent mobile phone text reminders to take the contraceptive pill, reports the BB

This is wild, a UK political party using SMS as a fund raising tool!

The Conservative Party is looking to boost its revenues with the launch of a new SMS loyalty scheme, reports Brand Republi

Swedish researchers said this week that there are possible links between long-term use of cell phones and development of a certain type of brain tumor, but the trade organization representing

Phone Bites Inc, a pioneering mobile entertainment company has released the RAZZ, a software application that lets mobile phone users interject stored sound clips directly into their phone conversations, on the fly, according to a company press releas

Would you like Steven Tyler to tell you to "walk this way" in Boston, or Jerry Stiller to escort you through New York City?

The Aerosmith rocker, "Seinfeld" actor and "Aliens" actress Sigourney Weaver are among several stars lending their voices to new cell phone-guided tours of

Nokia, the world's largest producer of mobile telephones, on Thursday reported an 18 per cent fall in third-quarter pre-tax profits as the Finnish group cut handset prices in an attempt to win back market shar

InfoSync World reports that the Disney Media conglomerate has announced that their Mickey News site now has a version designed specifically for wireless device

In famously disciplinarian, squeaky-clean Singapore, underground punk rock is belting out its anti-establishment message, reports The Sta

Cheats using cellphones during university exams in New Zealand run an increased risk of detection this year due to technology developed by Christchurch school pupils, reports stuf

MobileTracker believes the new Google SMS search service will expand to driving directions in the near futur

Smartfriends (french) allows you to compute statistics on your mobile phone about social things:

- with whom are you spending the largest amount of time on the phone?- bet on your next call- gender stats

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Ten or more years of (analog) mobile phone use increases the risk of developing acoustic neuroma, a benign tumor on the auditory nerve, according to a study released on Wednesday by Sweden's Karolinska Institute, reports Reuter

Newly appointed President of Yahoo! Europe, Pierre Chappaz, says that mobile services will be a key revenue driver, reports 160character

Cellular News reports that a new Discount Mobile Service Provider has emerged in Holland that has a rather unusual logo - the hemp plant!

"And just to be sure there is no mistaking who they are targeting as their customers - check out their name: "PePtalk - Pep your Addiction"!

Yes - it's for real! PePtalk ww

Pressure grows to allow mobile phone jammers in the UK, reports the BB

Having your boss know where you are every minute of the working day is most employees' worst fear - and one company is offering bosses the chance to do just that for less than £1 a month, according to Silico

Got a couple of minutes? Then watch thi

Virgin Trains has admitted thatthe design of its new trains impairs mobile phone reception and can make holding a conversation impossibl

The FCC today approved the Motorola A668, a new tri-band GSM camera phone with a unique text-input technology called Finger Writing Recognition (FWR), reports Phone Scoo

Not content with enabling it to talk to other Tamagotchi, Bandai has now tweaked the infra-red port to let you communicate with a cellphone, reports Engadge

A radio presenter's quick actions helped save the life of a distressed listener who contacted the show by text messaging after taking an overdose, reports The Evening Times Onlin

The Swiss Government's attempts to crack down on criminals by having users of prepaid cell phone cards register their details have largely fallen on deaf ears, reports swissinf

Samsung is scouring the UK for the very best urban-inspired designs to be turned into mobile graphic

Yesterday, China Mobile and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) launched a mobile phone banking SMS service across the country, reports ChinaTechNews

"China Mobile cell phone subscribers can send short messages to 777795588, a special service number belonging to ICBC, they can receive bank account information detailing fund transfers, donations, and expenditure

This month, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will start tracking down traffic violators with outstanding payments through text messaging, reports ABS-CBNNew

The French Government has approved a decision of the Telecommunication Authority Regulation, to authorize cell phone jammers in theaters and movie houses, reports Carnet Techno (in French) and it was mentioned on French Radio Station "Europe1" this morning as wel

Sofia municipality (Bulgaria) will introduce a new "Pay and display" parking fee system, reports novinit

Mobile phone service in the Baghdad area was out of service Monday as employees of the communications company went on strike to protest the kidnapping of two Egyptian engineers, reports Cellular New

Vodafone UK has launched a service for businesses to send and receive text messages from their PCs, reports WhatP

Having equipped most adults and half of all teenagers with cellphones, the US mobile phone industry is turning its attention to the last untapped demographic - people over 65, reports The New York Times

"Senior citizens are an alluring lot for the mobile phone industry, which has virtually tapped out the rest of the adult marke

Instead of having to ring in to get your voice mail, SpinVox automatically delivers them to you converted into an SMS, reports Mike Grenville for 160character

In an era in which workers with Internet connections have found ever more ways to amuse themselves -- from feeding their EBay obsession to instant messaging their buddies -- employers have also found new technological tools to put a damper on such diversions, reports the San Francisco Chronicl

A life-saving shirt that can call for help by mobile phone or computer when its wearer falls has reportedly been developed professor Francis Tay from the National University of Singapore, reports Régine for near near futur

Although popular with passengers, Zingo mobile phone taxi hailing service launched just over a year ago in London is struggling to sign up drivers and has twice as many passenger requests as available drivers, reports 16ocharacter

Japan Today reports on a cell phone recharger - which works with most Japanese phone models - that works by squeezing!

"The new manual power generator DolphinPower in your pocket, you will never need to worry about it agai

SK Telecom and CJ CGV, the multiplex theater chain of CJ Entertainment, jointly start Moneta M-Ticket service, the companies announced Sunday, reports Seong-ju Lee for Telecoms Kore

Sify reports on "the most surreptitious, smartest and almost foolproof move by mobile companies to fleece customer

In recent months a growing number of experts have identified and begun to study a distinct downside in that: cellphone use may be making us less autonomous and less capable of solving problems on our own, even when the answers are right in front of us, reports The New York Time

Mobile computing will be transformed by high-power batteries that can be charged in less than 10 minutes and by fiber batteries built into clothing, according to a September article in TechWeb, which somehow I misse

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The Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) has signed a memorandum of understanding with two leading mobile phone service providing operators to extend real-time stock information through text messaging, reportsThe Daily Star of Banglades

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US Magazine is launching end of October "US to the Minute", a text messaging service that will deliver breaking entertainment news and gossip to cell phones, reports Mia for Popgadge

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has announced that it is beginning work on a new standard for batteries used in mobile phones, according to InfoSync World

Motorola has announced commercial deployment of Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) solutions on a GPRS network in Asia Pacific for one of Taiwan's largest operators, Chunghwa Telecom, according to Cellular News

Hungarian tabloid trailblazer Blikk recently revealed the existence of a clinic in the eastern town of Gyula specializing in the treatment of Internet junkies and SMS "maniacs", according to a Hungarian pape

Escada and Siemens will be releasing this rather swankypants SL65 in time for Christmas, according to Shiny Shin

It looks more and more as if IM has outgrown its exclamatory roots in teenage chatter, reports reports the NYTime

Mobile phones have become a must-have item for every high-powered Japanese businessman, multi-tasking mum and self-respecting teenage

Wireless users no longer have to wait for the Sunday paper to arrive to find out why Charlie Brown is crying "Good Grief!" thanks to a licensing deal FunMail has inked with United Media, reports Wireless Wee

More than 110,000 Korean kids under 5 years old were reported to subscribe to mobile servic

With the penetration of keitai, it becomes more difficult (for parents) to grasp their children’s relationships and friendship

Personal information gathered from 1,700 cell phone subscribers was stolen from two agencies of KTF, the nation’s second-largest mobile carrier, reports Digital Chosunilb

During the National Day holiday, a type of mobile phone designed specifically for children appeared unannounced in Guangzhou, reports ChinaTechNew

Mobile Tracker via Unwire

Motorola, Baby Phat and Bloomingdale's today announced a new cell phone for the woman who has everythin

New equipment has made it possible for volcanologists to take better measurements without hiking up the volatile mountain and risking their lives, reports ABC Channel

German President Horst Koehler admonished the nation Wednesday to "write more love letters" instead of e-mail and phone text-messaging, reports Expatic

Phono Click's 'Call Your E-mail' application allows people to call a phone number to listen to their e-mail messages, and reply to them from anywhere in the world, reports AME Inf

An innovative text message service, called Flight Tracker, is to undergo a six-month trial, reports eyefortrave

In another example of business gets' the message, UK Sainsbury supermarket chain is using a web-based TextAnywhere application to send SMS messages to management staff situated around the warehouse, providing them with information about stock deliveries, transport delays and changes to delivery schedules so that alternative arrangements can be made if necessar

In one of the more ridiculous survey's ever reported, it seems twelve times more Americans want to chat to God for 15 minutes on their mobile phones, rather than speak to The Beast's Billie

While employees of Korea’s biggest conglomerate, Samsung stir up a controversy that the group illegally traced the location of employees through LBS of mobile carriers, SK Telecom, the largest mobile operator of Korea, decided to reinforce its LBS securit

The number of people having more than two handsets turned out to exceed five million, reports Telecoms Kore

The Korea Times reports that a lawmaker on Thursday argued the government has closed its eyes to the emerging problems of cell phone cloning by not implementing the authentication syste

This is way over my head, but according to The Latest Technology Research News, atomic clocks could power cell phone

I just noticed that one of my bookmarks, SMS Today, has a listing of Adult SMS Text Alerts, including links to pillow talk, naked babe pics, mini adult movies and strippers - all for your mobile phon

The sales of new mobile phones in Russia will reach 22-30 million in 2004, reports mosnew

Feel like a beer? If you live in the UK, you can sign up to the Good Pub Guide which has gone mobil

Japan's leading mobile communications company, today announced the launch of a roaming service to enable users of NTT DoCoMo's popular Mzone service to connect in flight on Boeing's SM high-speed Internet service beginning Oc

New tools are making it easier for cellphone users who lose or break their phones to piece back together their phonebooks, reports the WS

You no longer have to put up with people talking loudly on their cell phones around you and forget about studies on why such behaviour is so annoyin

New Zealand's ASB Bank plans to send text messages to the mobile phones of customers when they want to make a "significant" transaction, said Clayton Wakefield, the group general manager of technology and operation

Japanese company Taito is now offering what Russel Beatty from Mobile Weblog calls Redjacking: sending marketing messages via Infrare

Dubai's eGovernment has launched a new 'pull' SMS service that allows mobile phone users to seek specific information from government departments by sending an SMS to one number, 4488, and receive a response to their inquiry on the mobile in real tim

Motorola Korea announced Tuesday the orange-colored handset that Russian tennis star, 17 year-ol Maria Sharapova used to call her mother in her home town after her winning - no not Wimbeldon - but the Hansol Korea Open championship- , reports Telecom Kore

Anne Galloway from Purse Lip Jaw looks back at the hype surrounding the first telephones, documented by films and stills from Vocational Guidance Film

RadioShack signed a multi-year agreement with Sam's Club to operate wireless kiosks in 542 Sam's Club locations across the countr

In Malaysia, Macro Kiosk and JobStree

A dedicated property market text-messaging service is giving estate agents the edge over their competitor

T–Mobile is to become the first German mobile operator to offer the push-to-talk (PTT) service, reports DMEurop

Samsung said Monday that a increasing number of US police officers use its handsets, reports Telecoms Korea

"SCH-i600 operates on MS Smartphone 2003 Operating System and features Info-Cop, a software that provides wireless access to police databas

SurfKitchen offers the means to run mobile phone screens into desktop displays, reports The Sunday Time

The pioneering adults of Textari-Helppi, Finland, are a group of volunteers lending a sympathetic ear or, as it were, eye to troubled teenagers - by text messaging, reports Virtual Finlan

Two officers have been removed from front-line duties with Greater Manchester Police after claims that they sent racist text messages on mobile phones, reports Manchester News

"An investigation has been launched after it was claimed that the word "n*****" was sent between the

China has brought its mobile phone network to the last of its ethnic minority regions previously cut off from communication with the outside world, according to state media, reports the AF

To stem spreading of rumours on the final day of Ganesh immersion in Ahmedabad and Vadodara, under orders from the police, most cellular operators across the state barred SMS on mobile phones from 2 pm to 12 midnight, reports The Times of Indi

The British Heart Foundation is launching a new weapon against smoking - sending supportive texts and e-mails to those trying to quit, according to the BB

The latest generation of mobile phones is vulnerable to hackers, security experts have warned, reports the BB

The Canadian [murmur] project, created by Shawn Micallef, James Roussel and Gabe Sawhney, relies on a simple concept: recordings of anecdotes and memories told by locals can be accessed by mobile phone (or payphon

Silence is an easy chair designed in 2002 by Antti Evävaara "for the undisturbed use of your mobile phon

California has adopted the Cell Phone Recycling Act of 2004, which will require retailers to have a system in place to collect used cell phones if they want to sell new ones, reports WirelessWeek (via The Featur

El Mundo informs that during the XVth congress of the Partido Popular taking place this weekend in Madrid, a giant screen has been installed to display SMS messages sent to the party leaders during the even

With mobile telecommunications, calls now connect people, not place

After the mobile phone carrying geek girl Barbie, Mattel India is updating its the text-messaging doll by giving her Instant Messaging talents:

The Barbie comes with a working mobile phone, with which girls can not only message Barbie, but also message their own friends who have a similar dol

SimpleTEXT is an audio/visual performance that focuses on the dynamic involvement of the audience through input from mobile device

Spanish company Code Factory has developed a screen magnifier to enable visually impaired people to better use mobile phones, reports BBC New

I'm off to London to see the Quee

Iraqis hail their mobile phone network as one of the few achievements in the country's reconstruction, but the technology is also being used to detonate bombs that cause daily death and destruction, reports Reuter

Businesses and service providers have to provide equal access to their services for people with disabilitie

The biggest bank of Korea, Kookmin Bank and the biggest mobile carrier, SK Telecom enter into an alliance in mobile banking, brightening prospect of the industry, reports Telecoms Kore

Two years ago, there were few mobile handsets visible at Colombo's Pettah market, Sri Lanka's fresh produce hu