SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2004 / 12

The tsunamis that devasted South East Asia over Christmas 2005 created a wave of solidarity without precedent around the world, with governments, simple citizens and private companies giving money generously to hel

More SMS donation campaigns for tsunami relief:

-- Organisers of Germany's biggest New Year's Eve party, to be held at the landmark Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, said party-goers could make donations to the UN Children's Fund by sending a text message to a special number, reports Associated Pres

Alert messages are being beamed through cellular phones to strictly avoid eating sea foods, as a dangerous virus is being spread through them, as a result of the tsunami tidal waves across the Indian ocean, reports New Keral

Those who design and use the wireless technology known as Short Message Service, say it could be used to jumpstart governments' warning networks, reports The New York Time

Italian mobile phone users have donated more than 11 million euros (15 million dollars) for the victims of the Asian tsunamis through a text messaging arrangement that seemed to set a trend, reports the AFP

With communication networks destroyed along much of South Asia's tsunami-ravaged coastline, getting messages of life and death across the globe has been challenging for family members and relief worker

Thursday, December 30, 2004

[Local medical officers are spraying something called Lysol all over the place in Mullaitiv

Ericsson using SMS Technology to aid Donations

Ericsson is aiding the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies with technology called Internet Payment Exchange, that allows anyone with a mobile telephone to make donations to the Red Cross' Tsunami disaster relief efforts in Asia, according to Asia Travel Tip

A desperate search using mobile phone tracking was mounted last night to trace Irish people missing in the worst disaster of modern times in which the death toll could now surpass 100,000, reports the Belfast Telegrap

Danish Telecommunications operator TDC has joined the growing list of operators offering it's mobile phone customers free calls and text messages from Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia and Thailand from Denmark, reports Cellular New

Thirty six stranded British tourists were rescued in Sri Lanka thanks to a mobile phone with one of them and technology that could pin-point the user, an official involved in the rescue told the Associated Pres

The Singapore Red Cross is expanding the number of ways Singaporeans can hel

The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association has issued 10 golden rules of mobile phone etiquette to minimise mobile phone frustration, reports The Australian New

The Swedish government puts the number of Swedes still unaccounted for in South East Asia at 1,500, reprots Radio Swede

In a generous gesture, Chatbar announces a free SMS service to help contact families and friends affected by Asian earthquak

Italian television Sky TG 24, has launched an innovative service to help Italian people in South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami, reports NAMC Worldwide Newsroo

Seong-ju Lee for Telecoms Korea reports on a new quaint SMS service just launched in a ski resort in the central Gangwon provinc

Alex Steffen points to this WorldChanging Essays of his colleague Jamais Cascio who asks "Can we prevent the next Tsunami 2004-type disaster?" and then finds the answer is yes -- if we use the right tools - such as SMS - and a smart mob approac

Ericsson has been selected by Chunghwa Telecom to provide indoor coverage to the world's tallest building, Taipei 101, reports Cellular New

As 12:20 pm today, Wednesday December 29 (Swiss time), Amazon has raised $993,43

Mobile phone subscribers in China topped 329 million at the end of November, with the world's largest cell phone market expected to hit 402 million in 2005, reports the Associated Pres

When the tsunami hit southeast Asia this week, it was instantly a disaster of historic proportions, and nothing could have prevented tha

Time Warner s in talks to offer cell phone service over Sprint Cor

At least 13 airports are sending motorists to "cell phone lots" to wait until the arriving travelers call for a ride, a new attempt to unplug road-clogging bottlenecks at passenger pickup spots, reports USA Today

Unfortunately, despite the ubiquity of cellphones in southeast Asia, text-messaging wasn't sufficiently harnessed to notify people of the coming tsunamis, reports The Wall Street Journa

A new service available in Florida allows home shoppers with cell phones to get information on for-sale homes in the form of a text message, reports Inman Real Estate New

Thirty six stranded British tourists caught up in the tsunami in Sri Lanka were rescued after local telephone companies used technology to pin-point one of their mobile phones, reports the Times Onlin

The Herald Sun Australia writes that the expected arrival of thousands of international visitors for the Deaflympics has fast-tracked a phone revolutio

Norwegian telecommunications operator Telenor said Tuesday its Thai unit Total Access Communication PCL has set up mobile phones for free local calling in areas struck by tidal wave

Tsunami eyewitness Sanjay (aka "Morquendi") is a blogger and TV producer who lives and works in Sri Lanka, one of the areas hardest hit by the disaste

It seems almost indecent to be blogging today, when tens of thousands have been hit by the tsunamis that devastated Southern Asia - but I'm trying to pick up anything I find related to cell phones and how they may have helped - or could have helped mor

For those of us in the West who have so often wondered and envied the immense uptake of mobile voice and internet services in Japan, Mizuko Ito offers a wonderful insight into this particular phenomenon in her paper titled "Personal Portable Pedestrian: Lessons from Japanese Mobile Phone Use

Wireless Watch Japan closes out the year with a look at one of the most advanced bit of aftermarket cellphone modding we've seen--LEDs galore in an bewildering range of patterns, fitted under your keypad or (by the look of it) into holes drilled in the outer cas

A reassuring article on cell phone viruses by The Wall Street Journal today, stating that the "virus threat to cellphones is, for now, purely academic

A special SMS message service in Bahrein set up to encourage boys and girls to make fun calls to each other has been banned because it contravenes Islamic values, reports The Gulf Daily New

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Next year, seven out of ten Samsung phones on the market will be camera phones, reports Seong-ju Lee for Telecoms Kore

Samsung to Increase Camera Phone to 66% Next Year

Next year, seven out of ten Samsung phones on the market will be camera phones, reports Seong-ju Lee for Telecoms Kore

Phone companies in the US have eliminated more than a million traditional pay phones in the past eight years, many of them in phone booth

Dutch airliner KLM starts in February 2005 with an sms and e-mail service during flight

Phone Scoop has published a usefull Cell Phone Recycling Guid

The Pontif's Midnight Mass on Xmas Eve as well as his Christmas Day message and blessing will be broadcast by cell phone this year, reports Reuter

The Chicago Tribune looks into the increasing power of cell phones and how they are fast shaping innovative forms of compact culture: such as cell phone-size literatur

Lloyds TSB Internet Banking has launched a free text alert service for both personal and business banking customers to receive regular updates of their account balance, reports 160character

Lindbergh Field, San Diego's International airport, is offering a free 50-space "cell-phone waiting lot", where drivers can wait for deplaning passengers to call them before they pick them up at the cur

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A new payment method being offered by Waltham Pizza is giving new meaning to the phrase "call out for pizz

SK Telecom, unveiled Thursday a new handset for people with visual disabilities, reports Seong-ju Lee for Telecoms Kore

Tired of cell phones that have a million features? Product developer Dave Simmons from Nokizon labs in Boston believe consumers are ready for the next step in portable communication, reports The Washington Obfuscato

Mobile advertising is rushing to find its way into handsets everywher

Tuesday a world primer took place of a massive smswave during the Europecup basketball match in Amsterdam of the Demon Astronauts against the French Strassbour

I'm a little sorry to hear this, being a long time fan of Tegic's T

Two of the world's top mobile phone makers said more research is needed into the potential for cell phone radiation to damage DNA, following a laboratory study by 12 European institutes which found harmful effects, reports Reuter

Following up on yesterday's story of a Malaysian bride left at the alter by text message, the BBC reports that her ex-fiancé football player looks set to be shown the red card by his team for jilting he

From Bamboo Trading Company via Sugar 'N Spicy

Bell Telephone System ran this holiday paper advertisement, taken from a 1957 magazine, which explains the idea of giving additional telephones for Christma

Disembodied Voices ," 2004 is a five projector multi-sensory interactive installation in which the viewer moves through a series of experiences exploring the differences between public and private life and how the global phenomenon of cell-phone conversations-those half public, disembodied conversations have become a ubiquitous irritant in contemporary societ

The intersection of healthcare, peer support, online community, and mobile devices seems to me to be a fruitful on

Although it seems certain the government will approve the use of cellphones on commercial flights, it seems to be a stretch to think that an airplane cabin will be filled with people jabbering away on their phone

International mobile phone users should refrain from sending text messages to the Philippines for the time being as intended recipients will not be able to receive them, though messages sent will still be charged accordingly, reports Borneo Bulleti

A survey on the attitudes to Swedish 3G users has overturned the old adage that women like to talk and men like to play game

Concerned about the Health and Safety dangers of snowballs? Now you can now send snowballs by mobile phone and actually benefit kids charity NSPCC at the same time, according to Mike Grenville for 160character

A cellphone ban at South Florida's federal courthouses has created a new marke

The number of unwanted text messages and phone calls via mobile phone surpasses that of desktop spam mail by a big margin, according to the Korea Information Security Agency, reportsThe Korea Time

SK Telecom announced Tuesday that it's NATE service will provide customers with viewing access to 80 selected art masterpieces from the collection of "400 Years of Western Art from Poussin to Matisse" now being exhibited at Seoul Arts Cente

I'm not really sure how this works, it doesn't seem to be about infrared or bluetooth, it's a new interface for cell phone data exchange based on a lazy susan metapho

An estimated 57 percent of the

With new functions to send e-mail, take pictures and listen to music, the mobile phone has turned into a portable minicompute

Ten days ago, 12,000 workers went on strike in Shenzhen at the factory of a supplier of Wal-Mar

A jilted Malaysian bride was left waiting on her wedding dais after her groom called off the engagement via a mobile phone text message, a report said Monday, reports the Borneo Bulleti

Another day, another bad news for mobile phone addicts who care for their healt

Broadcast TV association EBU (European Broadcasting Union) has launched a pan-European mobile interactive quiz show to educate broadcasters on the potential of SMS interactivity, writes New Media Ag

Mobile phones in Japan have become a crucial identity statement, with accessories like straps, antenna rings, photo stickers and fake gems reflecting the owner's personalit

Artisan Bread, a bakery in Kent (England) that plots planetary movements and uses a special calendar to work out the best time to make the bread, fears that emissions from a phone mast will disrupt "subtle forces" which help to make its "cosmic bread

A book compiled from the comments people sent in SMS in Antwerp and Leeds has been freely published onlin

Today, Sprint will introduce a radio service that allows people to listen to music over their phones, whether through an earpiece or the phone itself, announces The New York Time

British newspaper The Telegraph reports of a new social study that shows how texting has had a complex effect on teenagers, allowing them to avoid face-to-face contact and to communicate in ways they would not have dared befor

Scoop, by Anna Hiltunen, is an information reactive table with memory, a kind of messageboard to be used with portable device

Every year, the people of the Trobriand Islands in New Guinea exchange ornamental seashell armbands and necklaces to bind their circle of fishing communities to each other, explains New Scientist (via plsj

Gay News reports that a new survey, by Harris Interactive and Witeck-Combs Communications, reveals LGBT adults are more tech savvy than their straight counterparts and willing to pay for the latest advance

As the popularity of SMS explodes across the United States, some fear for the health of America's thumbs, writes The Times-Picayun

The Sunday Mail reports that Italian tourist Antonio Casale, on an international flight from Sydney, caused a major security alert when he sent several SMS to his wife saying the plane had been hijacked by Islamic terrorist

Philip Hirschfeld 's EM Shelter Booth project will be presented on Sunday 19 and Monday 20, at the Tisch School of the Arts' (New York) Winter Sho

On Sunday 19 and Monday 20, students of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (Tisch School of the Arts in New York) will present their work at the Winter Sho

After proposing lifting the ban on use of mobile phones during commercial flights, the Federal Communications Commission is flooded with hundreds of e-mails from travelers who want to keep the ban in place and preserve their peace and quiet, reports Wired

Off to Vienna, back on Tuesda

Engadget picked up on an interesting story from FederalNewsRadio, claiming the real reason behind The FCC's reconsidering allowing passengers to use their cell phones while they fly is because Federal Air Marshals asked them t

Tan Tock Seng Hospital may allow mobile phones to be used around the hospital - even in operating theatres, reports Channel News Asi

Australian users of mobile phones will soon be able to dial 195-PORN, according to the Sydney Morning Herald

But tough rules aimed at protecting children from adult services, expected to range from blue video to sex text, will require potential users to first show photograph identification and request access in writin

In a country where nearly every facet of society is controlled, North Korean authorities are encountering a new foe: the cellphon

Something to think abou

Apple and Motorola are hinting that they will officially unveil a mobile phone version of iTunes in January, completely bypassing carriers, reports InfoSync Worl

Force-sensing fabric companyEleksen will show a fabric keyboard and joystick at the beginning of next yea

Japan's NTT DoCoMo said Wednesday that, since July, it has sold one million phones that can be used to make payments, reports Mobile Pipelin

Regina Lynn's sex column in Wired this Friday is dedicated to cell phone models that function as sex toy

Singaporean mobile accessory specialist StrapYa has some interesting paraphanalia to dangle from your cell phone, according to Asia C/ne

Your old cell phone can help a soldier call home, reports WBOCT

To promote the launch of the DVD of

Engadget reports that President Bush has a plan to shut the whole GPS system down in the event of a national crisis in order to prevent its use by terrorist

Top Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo said on Thursday it would launch a 3G phone equipped for use overseas and including a video conferencing function, getting a leg-up on its closest rival, KDDI Cor

China's cellular phone users sent 176 billion short text messages in the first 10 months of this year, according to figures released by the Ministry of Information Industry, relayed by Lates Future News

Highlights on cellphones and online fantasy teams alter how fans view games, reports The Christian Science Monito

Chung Jae-suk, deputy culture news editor of the JoongAng Ilbo on privacy issue surrounding Korea's telecoms handing over the students SMS to the police, following the cheating scheme on the SAT

A hoax e-mail circulating the Internet has millions of Americans scurrying to add their cell phones to a national Do Not Call list to avoid telemarketer

How young is too young? That's the question being asked in the wake of claims from child advocates that the trend of promoting technology to tots has gone too far, reports The New Zealand Heral

Giving your cell phone the feel of Christma

Telecom New Zealand says its Santaline campaign is getting some surprising results -- including many requests from lonelyhearts, reports The National Business Revie

Nokia on Wednesday announced new measures to fight counterfeit batteries, reports NewsRoom Finlan

The company's latest removable storage product is only a quarter of the size of a standard multimedia memory card, reports c/net Asi

Martin Parr's project hows people talking on mobile phones all over the worl

The wireless airwaves may get a bit more crowded next year following the announcement that Intellisync's goAnywhere technology, unveiled this week, will give users of low-cost feature phones the same push e-mail capability that is now only available on pricier smart phone

Mini-projectors will make it easier to find stock in a warehouse, reports the Sidney Morning Heral

A group of Singaporeans who are against the idea of building a casino here have taken their petition into cyberspace and are also preparing their online petition to accept signatures through SMS, reports Channel News Asi

The Cell Phone Lighter looks just like a real cell phon

Every mobile device needs to know the time down to the quadrillionth of a secon

Beijing Mobile's new "Qin Zi Tong" SMS service has officially begun this wee

Mforma has signed a multimillion dollar, multiterritory contract with Marvel that will mean its 5,000 comic-book characters will be available for the creation of new mobile games, a majority of which will be developed in the UK, reports The Guardia

The Internet's key oversight agency gave a preliminary nod Monday to new domain names targeting mobile services and the jobs market, reports the Associated Pres

Sending an SMS in France it's too expensive:

Much of the online world was glued to computer screens Monday to hear the jury in the Scott Peterson double-murder trial call for the death penalty, reports New

Brain Tumour helmets with Microwaves, by Australian artist Ian Haig, explores the impact of microwaves and their role in producing brain tumors, as in technologies such as mobile phone

This season's gizmos blur the boundaries of computers, electronics, and telecom, reports European Business Wee

The Malaysian Daily Express reports that a woman sent a text message to her own phone number, calling the thief who had stolen her handbag with her cell phone, requesting he keep everything, but return her ID car

Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) today announced the launch of the new Tarjim service, which allows mobile users to receive translations between Arabic and English of words or phrases, reports Ame Info

If you are lost and in England, simply send an SMS with "txtmethere" to short code 83200 and they will help you find your wa

UK mobile phone users could soon be able to check their bank balances using their handset in an initiative from the Link cash machine network, reports the BBC

South Korea student cheating by SMS continue

The notion of the cellphone as necessity may not be universally agreed, but if you're in doubt about whether the device is transforming American life just try wresting one away from a teenager you kno

Games tailored for cell phones are increasingly adding community-oriented elements, such as tournaments for top scores, head-to-head combat or chatting with other players, reports the Associated Pres

This is wild, New

The advent of wireless calling via the Internet will shake up the cellular world, according to the WS

According to The New York Times, the United States continues to think of a cellphone as a device for talking, not text messaging - and expects carriers to be disappointed by data sale

From steel to oil to cars to credit cards, China is poised to become the world's biggest producer and market for many goods and services, reports The New York Time

Electronic toys are what kids really want for Christmas according to The San Francisco Chronicle, the Robosapien dancing and belching robot, combat video games and kid friendly portable DVD players topping wish lists, with traditional toys losing groun

An interesting article in Bosto

A UK policeman on trial, allegedly seduced a girl of 15 through "sex texts" and persuaded her to perform a sex act on him in his car before buying her a hamburger, reports The Mirro

More than 25,000 students are expected to receive their HSC results via SMS on Friday, almost double the number who registered for the service last year, reports The Sydney Morning Heral

The Nokia Spy Phone looks and acts like a normal cellphone, but it allows the spy to listen in at any time whether the owner is on the phone or not, according to Engagde

It's Brazil's turn to offer cell phone litteratur

Planning a vacation in Boston, Denver or San Antonio? Don't forget your cell phon

Not related to cell phones - though there are some telecom companies here - just interesting to anyone who follows domain names: "The 100 Oldest Currently Registered

Cosmetics brand Maybelline New York has launched a mobile-based campaign to distribute discount coupons in The Netherland

The growing popularity of text messaging among older sections of the population is continuing to fuel a dramatic growth in the number sent to a record 25 billion per year, reports The Guardia

This should be the last of the posts on the SMS cheating scheme in South Korea, as the police is winding down their pharaonic investigatio

One of the best selling Xmas gifts is sure to be the text messaging Barbie, "an urban dweller with all the accessories required of a city girl

mfaith, a text messaging Bible service is enhancing its service for the holiday season by offering carefully selected verses surrounding the birth of Jesu

In February 2005, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will welcome its first Boeing 777 offering an SMS and e-mail service for passengers in World Business Class and Economy Clas

Russel Grant, Europe’s leading astrologer has teamed up with SMS Media Group to deliver his award winning daily horoscopes via text message to cell phones throughout the U

US mobile phone operators Sprint and Nextel are in talks about a merger to create a company worth an estimated $60bn-70bn, reports the BB

European Union (EU) telecoms regulators are to investigate whether fees charged when mobile phones are used abroad are too high, reports the BB

mozilla is planning to release a version of Minimo (Mini-Mozilla browser for portable devices) for mobile phone

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Government officials say the e-mails are an urban myth; there is no list of cell phone numbers being turned over to telemarketers, and telemarketers are barred from calling cell phone numbers, reports The Washington Pos

Mobile phone subscribers around the globe totalled nearly

Atkins, which is facing a slowdown in sales of its packaged foods and smaller numbers of consumers following low-carbohydrate diets, said early next year dieters will be able to pay for software that will help them track the carbohydrate contents of foods, as well as their own daily carb intake on mobile phones and handheld computers, reports New

The day may finally be coming when you will be allowed to make calls on your own cellphone from an airliner, reports the NY Time

New cell phone models are constantly hitting the market with new must-have gadgets, like camera

A bomb threat at Lincoln Middle School forced the evacuation of about 250 students Wednesday morning, reports The Advocat

A bomb threat at Lincoln Middle School forced the evacuation of about 250 students Wednesday morning, reports The Advocat

Scribbled love notes cover the walls around the tiny marble balcony where the mythical Juliet is said to have pined for Romeo, but Verona wants amorous visitors to go digital in the interest of preservatio

Nearly half of mobile phone users want a guide on 'text etiquette', a study by research company YouGov has found, reports PThe Registe

New Scientist reports that a smart phone that can detect radiation may soon be helping the police to find the raw materials for radioactive "dirty bomb" before they are deploye

112 is the new Europe-wide emergency numbe

"Americans like to keep it short on their cell phones: Last year, the average call lasted

The Washington Post reports that the Federal Communications Commission is considering loosening a ban on using cell phones in airplane

The untraceability of the current cash cards for subscription-free mobile phones is a boon to professional criminals according to Norwegian police, reports Aftenposte

Virgin Mobile has broken ranks with the $11 billion mobile phone industry by vowing not to target children younger than 10 in its marketing, reports The Sydney Morning Heral

Mobile media firm Enpocket is bringing greeting cards to mobile users, through a deal with Hallmark's cards…

Subscribers can click and select branded images and text, before sending them to a friend with personalised message

As technology's influence in the lives of young people becomes ever greater, a few teens and twentysomethings are unplugging — getting away from the Internet and other high-tech gadgets, at least for a while, reports The Associated Pres

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology in Germany are working on a tiny digital projector small enough to fit in a cell phone, reports Twin Factor via The Raw Fee

The University of Alberta researchers are working on a super cell phone that needs to be charged just once a yea

In what is considered a world-first technology, beds of leaf lettuce are ripening safely indoors at a factory in Hikari, 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Tokyo, under red light-emitting diodes (LEDs) which help illuminate mobile phones, reports the AF

Intel commissioned Harris Interactive, best known for the Harris Poll, to look at differences between male and female attitudes toward technolog

Hey Anita, a provider of enhanced messaging software for mobile operators, has unveiled version

Korean experts found that electromagnetic radiation (EMR) emitted by cell phones does no harm to human body, reports favorite By Seong-ju Lee for Telecom's Kore

Absenteeism is on the increase in many Australian government schools and much of it is unexplained reports the The Ag

Faster, better or funkier hardware alone is not going to help phone firms sell more handsets, research suggests, reports the BB

Cell-phone manufacturer Pantech & Curitel said Tuesday that it has succeeded in developing the world's first mobile phone using Zigbee technology, a short distance communication technology used for home-networking systems, telematics and military operations that can, for example, aid navigation and control how cool your fridge is, reports Digital Chosunilb

Recognizing the need for easier and less-intrusive monitoring of vital signs, medical companies are enlisting an everyday device: the cellphon

Mobile marketing technology company Hypertag has followed up its latest moves to turn outdoor posters into infra-red data points mobile phones with a Bluetooth version, reports Netimperativ

Invigilators* in Kashmir have been accused of using mobile phones to help their "blue-eyed" students during the annual class X examinations, a report said on Monday, reports the The Hindustan Time

The Cat book cover prototype meows when it detects strong magnetic fields nearb

Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has said the group is in talks with a Chinese company over setting up a mobile phone service in mainland China, reports the BB

High school freshmen and sophomores suspected of involvement in the mobile phone cheating scandal for this year’s college entrance exam will be permitted to take the College Scholastic Ability Test, reports The Korea Time

The Council of the European Union is proposing under a draft framework decision that phone companies, mobile companies and internet service providers are to store all information on the people EU citizens called or phoned and places from which those comunications were made for a period of at least one year, reports Public Technolog

Vodafone has announced plans to make its Speaking Phone solution available in several additional markets for blind and low-vision customer

Virgin Mobile has revealed that the days of visiting church to confess your sins are becoming a thing of the past, as mobile users are now turning to their phones to own up to their worst sins, according to Response Sourc

After nearly a decade of debate, no one can say for sure whether radiation from cell phones is harmful to humans or no

South Pacific Tyres implemented today the first deal reached in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission which prevents its workers from using mobiles while at work, reports The Sydney Morning Heral

Rumour has it that Apple has been showing off a prototype for an iPhon

It may appear at first glance an unchanged scene of rural life in sub-Saharan Africa, reports the BB

Sun Data, a handset accessory company, announced it developed AirBeam that can display SMS or image stored in handsets in the air using LED, reports Seong-ju Lee for Telecoms Kore

Sweden's minister of the environment, Lena Sommestad, Monday voiced fears that a lack of information on radiation from mobile telephones and radio base stations could lead to unwarranted legislatio

In 2020, whipping out your mobile phone to make a call will be quaintly pass

People cycling while talking on their mobile phone is such a common site in London that the Tories are tabling an amendment to the Road Safety Bill which would, "make cyclists liable for the same fines as drivers for using a mobile", reports the Londonis

Police will investigate an additional 1,625 college entrance exam-takers suspected of cheating by using cell phones as they sorted out 20,703 cases of text messages containing both letters and Arabic numerals and rescanned 260,000 text messages comprising only Arabic numerals, reports The Korea Time

Students who bully by email and SMS could be suspended from NSW schools from next year, under tough new rules announced today, reports The Age Autrali

Three gamblers who have used a James Bond-style laser device to win more than £1-million ($

SK Group's new headquarters in Euljiro 2-ga in central Seoul is a uniquely designed building attracting attention from passers-by with its reflective surface

Australian voters already reeling from mail-outs and recorded messages from politicians are about to be bombarded by text-happy MPs, reports the The Herald Su

Contradicting their previous position which was not to preserve text messages, The Korea Times reports today that wireless operators are coming around and will be keeping text message record

Violent and badly behaved students face tough new disciplinary action next year, reports the Australian The Daily Telegrap

The investigation into Gwangju’s exam cheating scheme using mobile phones during the national college entrance exam continues - and the number of students involved keeps risin

Switzerland's incumbent telephone operator, Swisscom, this week blocked some 130,000 prepaid mobile phone numbers because their owners failed to register them by an end-of-October deadline, reports the Dow Jones

"Company spokesman Sepp Huber said Swisscom was required by Swiss law to block the unregistered number

Washington,

Seattle-based company GloVentures plans to release early 2005 Glofun RayGun, a GPS ghost-hunting game for mobile phones, reports near near futur

Engadget reports on rumors of an Apple / Motorola phon

KTF, Korea's second-largest mobile service provider, announced yesterday that starting next year, text messages generated by its customers will not be saved by the company, reports JoongAng Dail

A Christmas tree that can receive text messages has been unveiled at London's Tate Britain art gallery, reports the BB

Kids text messaging while watching a movie becomes critics' tool to measure audience interes

Dexit which collects vast amounts of money each year on behalf of its clients, has implemented an ingenious SMS notification process by which consumers are pre-notified of imminent collection

Will the telephone's transition from appliance to fashion accessory change the ways we think of ourselves and interact with each other? Howard Rheingold explains how for (newly designed) TheFeatur

South African wireless operator Cell C is to launch a new competition that it hopes will take the teenage market by storm, as the operator seeks the country's fastest SMSers, reports ITWe

Few people in the world replace their handsets more frequently than Koreans, reports Telecom Kore

All primary school children in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, are to be supplied with an emergency personal handyphone system next fiscal year to protect them from crimes such as being kidnapped, according to the Daily Yomiuri Onlin

An advent calendar for mobile phone

Expect to see satellite radio and cell phone services converging within five years, XM Satellite Radio chief executive officer Hugh Panero says, reports New

Josh Nimoy's RibbonType project allows people to type a character to a kinetic sculpture with a mobile device and see it respond by forming the approximate typographic shape through contorting a thin white ribbo

French mobile operator Orange is launching a new programme for blind peopl

In Watertown, Mas

Pantech GI100 is the first mobile phone with fingerprint recognition technology and

The Incredibles has broken into the top 50 all-time-domestic blockbuster

Mobile technology company Echovox has launched a cross-network MMS Chat service, which enables users to add pictures, sound and video content to their discussion

Non-governmental organisation One World is launching in Kenya a new SMS service to coincide with the World Aids Day on Wednesday, writes BBC New

Andrew Corporation will install the world's first 3G wireless network of its kind for use in a public transportation system to upgrade the Hong Kong mass transit railway's underground communications networ

According to telefonos moviles, Romanian authorities have banned text messages featuring offensive comments about the candidates for the country's Presidenc

Flashstickers are stickers to attach on your mobile phone which start to flash with incoming call

A survey, commissioned by Motorola Australia's Personal Communications Sector, found that 70 precent of 16-34 year olds questioned planned to send text messages this Christma

New road safety measures have been unveiled in the U