SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2005 / 03

The BBC gives us an inside look into CeBIT, the world's largest hi-tech fair, opening its door in Hanover today, for a look at the latest gadgets for homes and businesse

Russell Buckley's list of the 14 Best Mobile Blogs has been picked up by Howard Rheingold on Featur

Siemens has already collaborated with fashion label Escada on a cell phone, the expensive SL65, and now the two are at it again, reports Shiny Shin

Only 1% of children under 9 owned cell phones in 2004, according to Yankee Grou

A sperm count survey for a study on the male reproductive system has been called off in India because of poor response from people, researchers said on Wednesday, reports newindpres

Every time we buy a high-tech electronic gadget, says Ian Redmond, we may be pushing the great apes closer to extinction, reports The Sydney Morning Heral

Siemens is to introduce a new mobile service called Animated Instant Voice Messages at CeBIT, which kicks off tomorrow in Hanover, Germany, reports The Registe

Can you hear me now?

Pokia Retro Phones of the Futur

CelebrityTextChat is a new SMS or "text messaging" service from AmericanIDC and Smart Entertainment that allows celebrities to be in direct contact with their fans through their mobile phone

In a bid to improve the collaboration functionality of its software Gates promised that Microsoft will build presence awareness into all future applications to integrate modes of communication including email, phone, instant messaging, SMS, video conferencing and web conferencin

Mobile phone use in Africa is growing faster than anywhere else in the world, according to a report, reports the BB

The first mobile phone virus capable of rifling through a phonebook and automatically sending a copy of itself to uninfected phones was discovered by anti-virus researchers on Monda

A text message service telling council tenants about housing repairs could be introduced, according to icSouthlondo

Philips Polymer Vision scientists are making enormous progress on the quality and usability of flexible screens that are ideal for mobile phone

Norwich-based feedback company Freeboon is considering exploiting the widespread use of mobile phones to give organisations a rapid insight into what their customers really think and says a number of high street businesses are already interested in the ide

Hundreds of people gathered in the city center of Tel Aviv, Israel for a pillow figh

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Mathew Bellows (GameSpot) and David Collier (Namco), go through 40 of the créme de la créme of mobile games from all over the worl

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A rechargeable (Li-ion) battery that can be fully charged in just 6 minutes, lasts 10 times as long as today's rechargeables and can provide bursts of electricity up to three times more powerful is showing promise in Altair's Nevada la

The Irish Tax Revenue Commissioners has said that text message enquiries for its service now equal telephone requests, following the introduction of an SMS facility on its website , reports Silicon Republi

A Tennessee man who was typing a text message on his cell phone as he traveled south on Interstate 65 died when he lost control of his pickup, which overturned as it went down an embankment, reports the Montgomery Advertise

KDDI has opened a playland for its mobile universe right in the heart of Tokyo fashion central -- Harajuku, reports Wireless Watch Japa

In a court case precedent, a convicted murderer is asking for a re-trial because the jurors used their cell phone

It turns out mobile gaming isn't just a guy thin

The first mobile-phone virus that spreads using the popular Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is circulating among Symbian Series 60 mobile phones, antivirus companies have warned, reports PCWorl

T2Me is a kind of push-to-talk voice chat software for mobile phones using GPR

The efficiency of cell-phone technology in rebuilding Iraq has a drawback in that insurgents are using the hand-held devices to orchestrate attacks and set off roadside bombs, reports the The Washington Times, in an interesting article on cell phones used to remotely set off improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the roadside devices that have killed scores of

Fourteen years after the Soviet Union collapsed along with its stuffy moral precepts, Russian politicians have decided that the country's fabled liberality has gone too fa

Nokia remains "interested" in fuel-cell technology, but a company spokesman denied reports that the company has put its commercial plans on hold since Nokia has never said it had immediate plans to commercialize fuel-cell product

An Israeli cellular phone company came out with a line catering to the fervently Orthodox community, reports The Times Online via JT

Microsoft researchers have put a new twist on telling time, creating a digital wall clock with hands for each member of the family, reports The Seattle Times via near near futur

Innovations often come down to little more than bringing together two existing technologies, and that is what Echovox is trying to do with its new instant messaging software for cellphones, reports the International Herald Tribun

People in the southern Chinese boom town of Shenzhen are now able to better locate themselves by referencing a city map on their mobile phones, reports China View via Smart Mob

It's the time of year parents start looking around for summer camps for their childre

The Thai government has unveiled plans to build a simulated tsunami attraction in the region worst hit by the disaster to draw tourists back to the area, reports the Sydney Morning Heral

Following yesterday's post on Virgin Mobile's 'Pee Strip' magazine Insert - part of a venereal disease themed marketing campaign for the launch of it's Canadian mobile phone service, Virgin is in the news again for offending nurses and demeaning their professio

Postal workers in Scarborough sorted mail by the lights of their mobile phones to save Mother's Day after a power cut in the town centre, reports UK's Scarborough Toda

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Newly redesigned Volkswagen Passat automobiles sold in Europe will come with a special Bluetooth-based hands-free unit, the German automaker and Nokia said Friday, according to Mobile Pipelin

Pervasive gaming and location based mobile phone games are become more and more sophisticate

Sharpshooting phones are pass

There is something known as going too fa

KTF, South Korea's second largest mobile operator, recently launched “Join Us Together KTF (JUST KTF)”, a program in which any one helping add subscribers could get paid according to their performanc

"Make way for The Mobiles" is a newly released SYNAPSE report (pdf) produced by The Media Center on mobility as a cultural imperativ

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MTN Rwanda says that in the past year, it has provided over 1,600 GSM based payphones for rural communities, bringing communications to areas that are often not served by landline phone networks, reports Cellular New

In what they claim is a world first, creditgat

Cell phones aren't ringing these days in this Himalayan nation: Small businessmen can't take orders, children can't phone their parents and political activists can't call around to organize a decent-sized protest, reports USA Toda

Another isolation-from-cell-phones ide

Archie Comics has awarded the worldwide wireless/mobile rights for content based on its characters, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, Reggie and, of course, Archie exclusively to Nazara Technologies

Content included in the Archie Comics entertainment - Nazara agreement encompasses mobile phone games, wallpapers, screensavers, comic panels or strips and MMS greeting card

Singapore is planning to regulate the sale of pre-paid mobile phone cards following evidence terrorists have used them to help carry out attacks, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng revealed, reports the AF

John Galliano leading the way for Christian Dior, shows short jackets at the Paris Spring fashion show with cargo pockets on the sleeves to carry cell phone

Virgin Mobile in Australia is sponsoring a new SMS-based comedy show called 160characters, which stars the audience, a Virgin Mobile phone and six cast members, reports Mike Grenville for 160character

With many students incurring record-high debts, universities and colleges across in Canada are taking a firm stance against mobile phone and credit card companies that target students on campus, reports The Gatewa

Mink Media yesterday launched two new blogs, the UK shopping blog Closet Spy and the techno gizmo blog Bleepblo

In late January, billboards with the cryptic message "inNw?" began appearing across the countr

A new service in the UK is allowing residents to report environmental problems by text message, according to the Paddington Time

Momentum in the global handset market is expected to continue into 2005 after growth last year exceeded even the most optimistic forecasts, technology research company Gartner In

Twenty percent of middle school and high school students, some 120,000 pupils, did not show up for school Tuesday after a group of students initiated a strike in protest of planned reforms in the education system, reports Haaretz - Israel New

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Cell phones have been known to trigger explosionss, but this time, bombs were made to look like cell phone

According to a Los Angeles security consulting firm that went skulking outside the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood on Sunday, as many as 100 people who walked the red carpet were carrying cellphones vulnerable to the kind of privacy invasion that recently gained Paris Hilton a new round of unwanted notoriet

Harvard Business School examines Flytxt wireless company's success with young people joining text-based 'clubs' affiliated with certain brand

IN Network is an extended cell phone life-art performance about distance, communication, intimacy, telepresence, and living together while apart, reports network_performanc

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Kevin Truitt, the principal of Mission High School in San Francisco, has struggled for years with students talking on their cell phones in class or text messaging under their desk

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Forty-six Thai students have been banned from the military for life after they tried to cheat in an army entrance examination by concealing mobile phones in their shoes, reports the Borneo Bulleti