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hop-on plans on exhibiting a universal mobile car charger at the 2005 CTIA Wireless Sho

networked_performance writes about psychogeography and cognitive mapping, a Mobility Paterson project, offering two suggestions for recording wireless experiences, using a term they coined, emotional GP

Following an earlier annoncement today by OMRON, of face recognition technology, Samsung has announced the launch of a 3D Movement Recognition Phon

Another option for people trying to isolate themselves from cell phone disturbances, by Ingrid Hora, "who has focused her attention on mundane eccentricities, such as talking to oneself or listening to other people's conversations

More than 10 million households across Australia will soon be able to send text messages from their home telephone units, reports the Sydney Morning Heral

Educationalists may rail against the increased use of 'txt' shorthand by children in their school work, and that is only proper, for there is a time and a place for everythin

A two-minute short film, "The Life of a Ringtone", shows what it takes to bring a ring tone from someone's imagination to another's cell phone and wins best student film awar

Following a previous post a couple of days ago, New Cell Phones Will Reach Out and Slap Someone, thanks to touch sensation technology, called haptics, New Scientist has a lengthy piece on Samsung's new mobile phone as well as other interesting applications of haptics technolog

Mobile phones are the essential accessory most of us never leave home withou

MobiDoms by MobiVend allows UK mobile users to order condoms by text messag

Australian jobseekers will be allowed to borrow a mobile phone from their job network provider until they find work under a new scheme approved last week, reports New

Space and Culture via Clipping

High school students are experiencing a chronic lack of sleep and worsening health due to long hours on email messages, cell phones and nighttime visits to brightly lit convenience stores, according to a study by a team of researchers in Fukuoka Prefecture, reports Japan Toda

Last week the administrators of Carver Middle School in Delray Beach (Florida) began strictly enforcing a ban on hooded sweaters and baggy apparel because of increased incidents of students hiding CDs, CD players, MP3 players, cell phones and inappropriate clothing underneath, reports the The Boca Raton New

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Roman Catholics around the world stopped Thursday to pray for Pope John Paul II as word spread that he had again been rushed to the hospital, where he underwent a tracheotomy to help him breathe, reports the Associated Pres

A free feature that lets users send short text messages to mobile phones from internet phone service Skype was being made available for testing starting on Thursda

Google has created Movie Search Help, enabling users to search for film titles, actors, directors, movie genres, famous lines or plot details - just in time for the Oscar

"The killer application in mobile service is decided by response time,” MIT Professor Nicholas Negropontesaid during an interview - celebrating the opening of the LG cell phone research labin Seou

They're mainly young, single and urba

A technique first used to cut headlight glare in rear-view mirrors is adapted to create an "electronic paper" display for MP3 players and cellphone

Samsung will release a mobile phone next month that tickle the person you talk to or basically slap them across the face, according to Live Scienc

Students at the Indian Institute of Technology have developed a pocket-sized turbine that attaches to your cellphone to charge it, reports Gizmod

A very interesting article on student cheating, from uh, the horse's mouth, published in a school paper by the students themselves of Montgomery Blair High in Silver Spring, Marylan

The New York Times has a story on Artificial Life's virtual girlfriend, Vivienn

A rapid alerting service that tells home computer users about serious internet security problems is being launched by the UK government, reports the BB

Blueserker explains how Paris Hilton's cell phone got hacke

More than three years after the terrorist attacks in 2001, the 11,000 men and women who serve as the border's front-line defense are overwhelmed, reports azcentra

MARTA rail cars (which travel throughout metropolitan Atlanta) will soon house monitors that will broadcast updated news segments from Channel 2 Action News, music and transit service informatio

In order to respond to any possible national disaster the ICT Ministry has sought dedicated radio spectrum for emergency communications services from the National Telecommunications Commission and is working on a framework for a disaster warning system, reports the Bankgok Post

Prism Holdings of South Africa has piloted a project that allows prepaid electricity consumers to access their free basic electricity entitlement using a mobile phone, reports allAfric

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To mark their 10th Anniversary, Epicurious will unveil key new features this year, amongst which is Epi to Go, enabling enables users to download recipes onto their mobile phones or PDA

The newest stars of the box office aren't Jamie Foxx or Leonardo DiCaprio - they're those in supporting roles as sneakers, cell phones and fizzy drink cans, reports The Age in an interesting article on product placement in film

The chief executive of Nokia said on Wednesday that he expected China to soon overtake the United States as the company's biggest market, reports the IH

Business

Palm Beah Post via Gizmodo reports that NBS star Shaquille O'Neal has actually had a cellular telephone imbedded in the sole bottom of one of his size-22 sneakers, the ones he wears in game

Celebrity presenters and performers at the 77th Annual Academy Awards will get the gift of global gab this year with the inclusion of the new Sprint PCS Phone by Samsung in their official Oscar gift baskets, reports mobiledi

People are becoming so dependent on their mobile phones that one in three are concerned that losing their phone would mean they lose their friends, reports the BB

James Dyson has invented a smartvacuum cleaner that can order its own spare parts - by cell phone, according to the The Su

Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman of India’s second-biggest mobile-phone network, says fishermen on the nation’s southern coast are using their cell phones while at sea to call traders and find out who’s paying the most for lobsters, reports Financial Expres

File under low tec

KTF and Samsung SDS announced Tuesday they would jointly develop a new service connecting TV and mobile phone, reports Telecoms Kore

Another hands-free cell phone kit - the recurring joke kin

Samsung has just launched the Anna Sui version of its Samsung E315, which sports one of Sui's typical hip chinoiserie design

Communicating using instant messenger, text messaging, even blogging are changing the way humans communicate, writes Wire

Booktopia, a Korean e-book service provider announced Tuesday it would offer mobile e-books made from film scenario

After the (upsetting) news last week of Nokia using Microsoft technology, some good gossi

This is one of the stranger features to come along, stick-on, wind-up wheels for your mobile phon

Wired, who doesn't nearly write enough about cell phones, has a feature today on cell phones' fashion appea

Wonderful Nokia history in Duncan Bartlett's article for the BBC on Nokia's battle to stay world's number one

-- Fredrik Idestam set up business on the banks of the river Nokia in Southern Finland in 1865 and the firm started by making items such as toilet paper and rubber boot

In Singapore, seven community agencies have come together to launch a nationwide campaign to help troubled teenagers facing unplanned pregnancies, reports Today Onlin

Chand Das, chief executive, ITC Ltd- greeting, gifting and stationery business, told Business Standard that the greeting card industry's business was stagnant over the last three years in India, but this fiscal the industry has been witnessing a 10 per cent fall in business due to the SMS and multi-messaging service

25% of all phone owners in Hong Kong are under 13 years old, with some as young as six, according to a survey of 613 households interviewed by the Ming Pao Daily New

Inmates and cell phones, a huge problem in Australia to

Your mobile phone could be your ticket to a site-specific play that takes you through the labyrinth of north Kolkata, report the Hindustan Times

"To take part, call 98318-80501 from February 26, the opening day for this two-month-long project, called CallCutt

Yahoo! sends driving directions to your phone reports Engadge

Hackers have apparently put the entire contents of Paris Hilton's cell phone on the Web - including the numbers of her famous friends, whose phones started ringing off the hook Saturday night, reports the New York Daily New

ATB,KIT,CUL8R,B4N! This simply means all the best, keep in touch, see you later and bye for now - All acronyms included in the latest version of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, reports the India Express Burea

The New York Post is reporting that illegal cell phone jammers are "selling like hotcakes" in New York Cit

Re-using old mobile phones is not just good for the environment, it has social benefits to

This sounds very coo

FresnoBee looks at how mobile phones have become so common that students and faculty recognize them as part of the college scen

An erotic TV commercial from French mobile operator SF

In 2004, 68% of all mobile phones shipped worldwide used color displays, with the remaining 32% being monochrom

The Korea Times reports that more than

The AP via CNN has an insightful article on Ben and Mena Trott, the husband-and-wife team, founders of six apart, a company which produces the software publishing program, Movable Type, and a hosted service, TypePa

Business Week [via YPulse] writes about a Barbie prepaid cell phone -- a real working one, to be presented at the American International Toy Fair this weekend in NY, which is different than the text messaging Barbie phones written about before, where the doll came packaged with two cell phones for text messaging (one for the doll and one for the little girl

Cell phones, power lines, and diet have all been investigated as possible causes of brain tumors yet definitive answers continue to elude scientist

A wonderful article today about a colossal star burst which occured in December and how astronomers around the world were notified by SM

The world's first mobile phone virus, Cabir, has spread to the United States from its birthplace in the Philippines eight months ago, a security research firm said on Friday, reports Reuter

This is really wil

Australia's Network Ten is offering viewers the chance to vote by SMS between two different endings to an episode of popular TV show Law & Order, reports C21 Medi

Following an earlier story today on Random House's foray into educational content over cellphones, a brother and sister team from Leeds are offering a text messaging service to aid young people's literacy skills, reports Evening Pos

The much written about virtual keyboard, will be selling at Radio Shack as a stand alone uni

Bullying, a recurring issue in school playground

Yet another study on cell phone radiation, this time with good new

A preliminary study by Australian scientists has shown that radio waves similar to the frequency emitted by mobile phones can cause DNA damage to mice sperm, reports Xinhua, via Keralanex

Industry buzz continues following Hop-on's announcement earlier this week that it already had a sub- $40 cell phone for sal

Chinese mobile phone users sent a record 11 billion text messages during the week-long Spring Festival holiday, ringing in the Lunar New Year in style, Xinhua news agency said on Friday, reports Reuter

According to Phone Scoop, Motorola has entered a co-marketing alliance with Skype, the internet telephony servic

Online flowers service FlowersDirec

The New York Times reports that Random House announced that it had acquired a minority stake in Vocel, a San Diego start-up company that offers educational content to subscribers over cellphones for a monthly fe

Spotted on wonderful near near future, a chair to host your mobile phone while you sit and cha

The New York Times offers an early glimpse of some of the toys scheduled for release next holiday season which will be on display at the American International Toy Fair's as of next Sunday, in New Yor

To be filed under deranged teenage

Due to shortage of blood, Magen David Adom, Israel's official emergency blood bank, asked mobile operator Cellcom yesterday to send an urgent SMS to all subscribers, asking them to donate bloo

To be filed under heartwarmin

It looks like music phones are the next big thin

Following yesterday's post on the Ring Phone, today brings us Jason Bradbury's Glove Phon

- A candy bar phone

- A flip phone (also clamshell, or folder phone) - A slide phone

Some interesting facts from favorite Seong-ju Lee at Telecoms Kore

When walking down busy city streets you can witness hundreds of people in their own private worlds, talking, listening, sending text messages on their mobile phone

Prepaid cellphones, which let users pay in advance for their cellphone service instead of signing a contract, are huge in Europe and much of Asi

He may have been locked up in a Dutch prison cell for almost a decade, but Curtis Warren is still the name in Liverpool's underworld - thanks to cell phones smuggled into prison, reports icLiverpoo

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), based in Geneva, whose standards are used in 100 nations, has brokered an accord to help authorities assess the potential health risks facing mobile phone users, reports CN

In Korea where the wireless penetration rate reaches 75 percent, mobile fraud is increasingly becoming a challenge for law enforcement, reports The Korea Heral

At the 3GSM show in Cannes, LG was showing off a rearview mirror for cars that displays phone caller ID information in the middle of the mirror's face, reports MobileBur

Read about Hypertag’s new wearable tags being used by field marketers to hand out ringtones to fans at gigs and to greet homecomng rugby fans at the airport with national anthem ringtone

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Mallik of Malvani (India) received an abusive text message sent by an obviously disgruntled employee of his service provider Airtel - and decided to take the matter to court when the company did not take action, reports MidDa

Mobile phone companies are ripping off holidaymakers, the European Commission claimed, reports This is Londo

Detectives investigating the murder of Dawn Walker have set up a special hotline allowing witnesses to text with potentially-vital information, reports The Evening Sta

In November 2004 Siemens announced the "Siemens Design Challenge" - a competition for best new mobile phone desig

Japan's NTT DoCoMo President Masao Nakamura in Cannes, confronts the profound social impact of cell phones on the Japanese populatio

Fears that growth will fizzle out in the mobile industry after most people in the West have signed up for phones are greatly exaggerated - if this year's 3GSM World Congress is anything to go by, reports the BB

Sport Illustrated scours the globe to find the most beautiful women for its annual swimsuit issue, and now mobile users can download them onto their cell phone

MobileKeeper

This is a rather unusual work of ar

A new chip developed by Texas Instruments which combines a modem and a computer processor on one bit of silicon instead of two could make phones cheaper and more powerful, reports the BB

Southern Illinois University plans to launch a text-messaging service this semester that would deliver announcements from professors and advertisers directly to students' cell phone

A successful fund raising campaign by SMS as led to the pairing of two gorillas at the Johannesburg Zoo, which officials hope will lead to offsprin

The University of California-Santa Barbara with help from IBM, overhauled its parking system a year and a half ago, enabling mobile users to pay for their parking meters with their cell phone

It has to be sleek, silver and perhaps have a built-in swivel to

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Karan Sachdev, a second year B Com student of Delhi University, became the Indian SMS king, by punching a confusing message of 160 characters in 66 seconds - beating the previous record by one second - in a tense competition in the Capital on Saturday, reports the Times of Indi

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This is bad news for me because I'm a Nokia fan and dislike Microsof

Motorola will enter emerging markets with ultra low-cost mobile phones aimed at 3 billion consumers who cannot yet afford to make wireless calls, reports Reuter

Cell phones have been compared to cigarettes, chocolate and even cars, but this is a first for bottled wate

Japanese Nanzu Musen Denki C

Among the more unusual technologies on display at next week's big mobile show in Cannes will be a mobile phone that can be used as a computer mouse, reports the BB

The Wall Street Journal looks into the many ways the constant presence of cellphones has changed how we communicat

Though this may remind some of you of other ways cell phones can be used to convey, uh, vibrant emotions, this one is appropriate for Valentine's Da

My friend Rohit Gupta as written an essay on whether text messaging is protected by any existing copyright la

Text messaging is used as a first by Coastguards in a rescue missio

Israeli company Ituran has developped a new system called PAL - an alternative and more reliable tracking device than the Global Positioning System (GPS

To file under random stat

Many centuries of rural tradition are brought to an end this week in the UK as hunting with hounds is banne

Cell phones have affected the bottom line of one consumers goods company in India, who blames the falling profits on price cuts and mobile users diverting their spending to mobile phone

This is yet another story related to inmates running their business from behind bars, thanks to cell phone

With Valentine's Day coming up tomorrow, don't miss Dialling your way out of dates from hell, posted in Ringtoni

According to a survey into the changing nature of Britain's attitudes to sex, women are now in charge, and new technology is blamed (or, in some cases, welcomed) for making it easier to cheat on a partne

An interesting side of effect of students having cell phones is pointed out in this article from The Boston Globe, where the principal of a high school describes how parents on the outside can be informed of a situation on campus, before the teachers are even aware of i

Mobile operator T-Mobile UK has put in place Content Lock, a filtering mechanisms for protecting children from accessing illegal or 18+ content on mobile phone

Australian publisher Pacific Magazines has just launched what it claims is the world's first magazine devoted to the world of text messaging, reports The Ag

The Washington Post reports that across the country, wired phones are becoming obsolete in college

Martina Zavagno who runs Adverblog has opened an interesting new blog called Making Money Out of Mobile (Mmoom), dedicated to the people and the Companies that "are" making money out of mobile (or at least are trying t

Korean-made cellular phones are rapidly gaining popularity among consumers in northern Europe, including those in Finland and Denmark, reports Digital Chosunilb

Candidates backed by Islamic clerics won races in the Saudi Arabian capital in the kingdom's first regular balloting, an election observer said Friday, reports the Associated Pres

Making the ordinary precious and valuable is at the heart of the art of Sidney Mobell, whose work is exhibiting at the Smithsonian museum in Washington DC, in a show titled The Jeweled Art of Sidney Mobel

In the half-ruined Chechen capital, a vast majority of inhabitants still consider running water and standard telephone lines a luxury, and few can afford a mobile phon

Members of the UK Parliament who interrupt the session with text message noises or ring tones can expect to be admonished by the Leader of the House, reports Silico

Good news for Boston commuters, they will soon be able to use their mobile phones and PDAs at four of the city's busiest subway stations by this fall, according to The Associated Pres

For the second year, Cingular Wireless, an industry leader in wireless safety and courtesy education, has commissioned a survey of adult cell phone users to determine if and how wireless technology has affected their love live

Canada Post Ottawa has come up with a service called fetch, that lets consumers interact instantly and anonymously with advertiser

Revenue from mobile phone gambling is set to exceed all other forms, according to a new repor

Cell phones that double as Internet phones will become available in the United States, Europe and Asia by March, reports NY Time

Nokia today introduced their new service called "Nokia Xpress audio messaging which allows users to send voice clips over their cell network, reports Mobilema

More than 8,000 local motorists have been caught in less than a year putting road users' lives at risk by using mobile phones while they drive, reports the Belfast Telegrap

By teaming up with Mobile 365, London 2012 enables British sports fans to show their support by texting LONDON to the cross-operator short code "8201

The European Commission has written to the mobile phone operators Vodafone and T-Mobile to challenge "the high rates" they charge for international roaming, reports the BB

A bill that was passed in Little Rock last week by the House and is now headed on to the Senate could mean a lot of help for the Crittenden County Detention Facilit

Hasbro will be rolling out ChatNow, a cellular phone-like communication system aimed at kids who want a cell phone, but whose parents don't want to pay airtime charges, reports Reuter

This is been written up before, but it's in the news again and is always fu

Two different articles today on alternative technology for batterie

According to Beijing Mobile, it handled more than one billion outgoing short messages on Tuesday's Lunar New Year's Eve alone, reports Channelnewsasi

Nokia has released a shell for its series 3220 mobile phone that will enable consumers to use the hand set for making contactless payments, according to finextr

firefly is a great new voice-only phone for kid

According to a report from the University of S

A man the FBI calls the "Can You Hear Me Now" robber hit another bank Tuesday night in Auburn, Washington, reports kirot

Security experts warn that as cell phones become more sophisticated, they become more vulnerable to viruses, worms and hack attempt

The growth of text messaging has offered a lifeline to shy teenagers who would otherwise struggle to communicate, a study has found, reports The Telegrap

MasterCard has joined with mblox, a mobile messaging infrastructure specialist, to add an SMS option to its Aristion fraud detection system and is making Aristion Communicator available to banks, reports PC Adviso

A website devoted to handbags with a special section on fashion bags for cell phones

With beads and sequin

4Info is a new mobile search service in the United State

Proxidatin

Moblog, a system developed by SingTel, does away with the need for a PC to communicate with blogger

Joe Boxer and Smartphones have teamed up to bring underwear to your cell phone, reports Mobilema

India's Supreme Court has urged the government to crack down on unsolicited calls and 'spam' text messages sent to mobile phone users, reports the BB

The number of Indian subscribers for landline and mobile phone services is soaring, putting the country on track to have 250 million users by 2007, reports the AF

Mobile firm Echovox (headquartered in Geneva) has launched a mobile Instant Messaging (IM) service, billed as a cheaper and more interactive alternative to traditional text messagin

Maui Games is offering its proprietary technology to embed advertising in cell phone games to cell phone game publishers and developers, reports mobent

I'm glad to learn that there is a convention which dissalows governments interrupting communicatio

Solar-powered parking meters capable of accepting credit cards and payment via mobile phone are to be installed in central Sydney, reports The Brisbane Courier Mai

Australian telephone companies may have to make contracts simpler so customers do not rack up unexpectedly high bills under a plan being considered by the federal government, reports the The Sydney Morning Heral

URL Manager Pro developer Alco Blom has released the first public beta version of SMS Mac, a plug-in for Apple's Address Book utility that lets users send a Short Message Service message to any cell phone number in the world over the Interne

A 911 dispatcher in Ogden needed a little help of her own Sunday when the cell phone in her jacket exploded, a Motorola V-300 camera-phone, reports the Desert Morning New

Targeting elderly customers, a Czech company has started manufacturing extra large cellular phones, an official said Monday, reports the Associated Pres

With cellphones an essential part of every girl's wardrobe, it's no longer enough to have the coolest hardwar

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MTV has renamed its Asia Awards 2005 as MTV Asia Aid, reports 160character

More PDA than cell phone related, but so fabulous I'm including it her

Mobile phone reception is worse in London than anywhere else in the UK, research suggests, according to the BB

Cell phone subscriptions across the European Union are leveling off, according to statistics released Monday by the EU head office, reports Forbe

Samsung Mobile on Monday announced the launch of a nationwide contest to find India’s fastest SMSer, reports The Economic Time

UK general manager Lianne Sharman told TechDigest "that Napster is in talks with manufacturers and networks about offering Napster to go on mobile phone

Mersey TV, the maker of UK Channel 4's teen soap 'Hollyoaks ', is hoping to cash in on the mobile text alert trend by offering subscribers unseen exerts of the show, reports Revolution Magazin

Treasuremytext offers the world’s first integration of SMS and iPo

The new government in Nepal, which snapped all communication lines after declaring emergency Feb 1, has started a "two-way telephone service" for civilians, including foreigners, for a limited period each day, reports WebIndi

Something which just doesn't seem to be abetting, cyberbullyin

According to the New Straits Times, there seems to be no end to the Malaysian habit of scandal-mongering and that the more malicious and improbable the allegations contained in poison-pen (text) messages, the more likely they are to be believe

Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait has become the first bank in Kuwait to implement the RiskSecure Anti Money Laundering solution, reports Strateg

Cycling magazine Rider News, reports that Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad has published text messages sent between former Quickstep cyclist Johan Museeuw and veterinarian José Landuyt, discussing the intake of medication/drug

Cell phones and other portable devices are ideal for on-the-go and emergency situations—unless the battery's dea

Not related to cell phones, but interesting as new technology will enable cars to automatically make an emergency phone call in case of an accident - and also very frightening because apparently before the crash, it's the car that decides on it's own to slam on the brake

Today people take laptops to wireless hot spots in coffee bars and airports to check their e-mail messages and to explore the Internet, reports The New York Time

In another example of cell phones used to track criminals, a Florida couple accused of torturing and starving five adopted children were captured Friday in southeastern Utah after police tracked them through their cell phones, reports the Associated Pres

Thailand's 25 million mobile phone customers received a polite reminder to vote in Thailand's weekend election, in a text message sent around the country, reports the AF

Phone numbers of the world’s leading soccer stars as well as other famous people are being sold over the internet by a Romanian student after she found a mobile phone belonging to shamed ex-Chelsea soccer player Adrian Mutu, according to the Irish Examine

"Cellphones" is a new rock musical playing in New York written & directed by William Electric Black, where audience members get calls from the cas

It's so amazing that this can happen in today's worl

Shipping in Nigeria is gradually being repositioned to face modern challenges in international trade, reports AllAfric

Technology hungry Norwegians set records as they spent $$

A blend of mobile technology and award-winning software is letting Chemists enjoy a drink at the bar while keeping and eye on the lab, reports the BB

This is a good idea and makes perfect sens

The Bihar government has finally installed four jamming machines at a prison in Patna to stop high-profile prisoners from using mobile telephones, reports The Hindustan Time

Define Tease is launching its newest entrant into the T-shirt market, Define Text, or dtxt, which asks “get the message?”

dtxt takes the "new speak" of text messaging and offers an original design with captivating acronyms printed on the t-shirt’s front and their meanings spelled out on the bac

Arcade which is part of Project Blinklights is an interactive light installation, allowing mobile users to play games such as Tetris, Pong or Pacman which are displayed on Buildings, by using their mobile phone

Ghosts is a digital sculpture that plays with the notion of 'instant' communication, such as email, web chat and text message

That title from Ananova certainly caught my attentio

This is the last day to vote for near near future at the Fifth Annual Weblog Awards, in both best european blog and best computers or technology weblog categorie

Travellers back from Tanzania share their experience in the Sun Newspapers, and one of the things that struck them most, was how cell phones have become ubiquitous in Afric

Text messaging technology can help find the owners of lost and stolen property, according to an article today in The Registe

This is rather unusual, but apparently perfectly lega

My fried Rohit Gupta forwarded thi

A cell phone decorated with 247 diamonds is up for bidding in an online auction, reports Seong-ju Lee Telecoms Kore

General Wireless has launched an application that enables standard Microsoft Outlook programs to send and receive MMS messages, reports Cellular New

Encouraged by new calling plans, the elderly are increasingly viewing the cellphone not as a device for emergencies but as an everyday convenience, reports the NY Time

Expect a Nokia cellphone in the near future to feel different, reports IT AsiaOn

A former Portsmouth police officer was found guilty of assault Tuesday in what authorities call a case of cell phone rage, reports KIROTV

In the future, mobile phone users will be able to leave messages anywhere in the form of what might be termed electronic post-its, reports Telecom Pape

With Valentine's Day coming up, FunMail is offering sweatheart candy as wallpaper for mobile phone

A school bus driver who had been drinking was tracked down by authorities after one of his passengers called 911 from a cell phone and reported the man was asleep at the whee

Deprived of their flat-screen televisions, cellphones, pizza deliveries and long visits from lovers, inmates at Mexico's top security prison complained on Monday they are being treated "like dogs", reports IO

EXideas features a number of MessageEase solutions designed to make it easier for folks to text message on their cellphones, which we know is growing beyond just the youth market, reports Wireless Weblo

CHL Technologies, has signed an agreement with Lenovo for the latter to embed CHL's Mobile Book Software Technology and fully illustrated books into its cell phones, reports China Tech New

A new study has found that cellphone use in traffic causes younger drivers to drive like older drivers, with slower reaction times and larger error rates in detecting changes, reports MSNB

Many in the grips of grief will find it hard to face a visit to the grave of a loved one, while some may be unable to make the journe

Like the name on your designer jeans, it appears the brand on your wireless phone determines your rung on the social ladder, at least in the United States, reprots TelecomWe

ThrillEX (Sydney) has just launched theSMSZon

The US Congress Joint Committee on Taxation has suggested that the existing 3% telecommunications tax could be extended to all forms of modern communications, including broadband, mobile phones and voice over IP, reports Computer Weekl

Japan's top mobile operator NTT DoCoMo said it will offer text-messaging with five other Asian countries and advanced sound systems on phones, after predicting tough times ahead for the market, reports the AF

The Delhi government Tuesday banned teachers and students of government-aided schools from using mobile phones during school hours, reports WebIndi

Plans for a "zero tolerance" approach to "low-level disruption" in England's schools are due to be set out by Education Secretary Ruth Kelly, reports BB

Connectotel has launched a free beta service to send text messages to Skype cell phone user

Tennis fans could send messages to players via screens on court if plans by mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson come to fruition, reports Reuter

wi-fi supply sells «Year of the Rooster» faceplates for Nokia models 3390 and 339

China has targeted fortune-telling as its next target in a crackdown on illegal telephone content after going after phone sex, reports Reuter

Recycling specialist, Eurosource Europe, has decided to hook up with Tsunami fund raising co-ordinators, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), to encourage people to donate their old mobile phones, reports The Inquire