A recent study with end users of mobile messaging devices in organizations reveals just how critically dependant we have become on our handsets. Among other things the survey revealed that:
* 35% respondents said that if there cell phones were to conk off, it would critically impact their ability to make critical, time-sensitive decisions.
* On forgetting [...]

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Police in Australia’s New South Wales have issued a reminded to the public that using a hand held mobile phone whilst driving is illegal. This was done after more than 1000 people were caught in one day.
A total of 1199 motorists were detected driving whilst using a hand-held mobile phone last Wednesday as police conducted [...]

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Mobile video reporting is still meeting with resistance from African citizens and even some journalists, said Ameyaw Debrah, a Ghanaian mobile reporter, at the Digital Citizen Indaba 3.0 in Grahstown, South Africa. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/090908-despite-potential-mobile-reporting-still.html?hpg1=bn
Those who are used to being interviewed in front of large television cameras fail to take journalists seriously when they produce mobile phones [...]

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Man Booker has announced the shortlist of books for this year’s prize and is making extracts from them available to download free to mobile for the first time. For the first time Man Booker Prize has partnered with mobile site GoSpoken to make extracts from the six shortlisted books available to download free onto mobile [...]

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It’s incredible but true. Comedian Lee Hurst is the latest performer to succumb to “mobile rage” according to reports, after last week mauling the mobile phone of a punter who was paying him undue attention at a gig in Surrey.
Hurst’s fit was sparked by the winking lights of a mobile phone somewhere in his audience [...]

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Comedy Time, Inc., a leading provider of short-form made for mobile comedy content for mobile devices have announced the availability of a comedy application for BlackBerry (R) smart phones. These customers can now view Comedy Time programming by downloading the application from the website. The application, created by Versaly Entertainment offers a line-up of the [...]

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More than half of Australia’s mobile phone users have used content on their mobile phone created by others, while one third are regularly sharing the content they create, according to the Australian Mobile Phone Lifestyle Index. Other findings of the survey are: of the third of mobile phone users regularly sharing content they create, 96 [...]

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Prisons in Pakistan don’t normally restrict the use (or misuse) of mobile phones hence the practice is widespread in the province, according to sources in the Prisons Department, who recently confessed this to a Daily Times reporter.
Talking to Daily Times, a senior Prisons Department official said that the department administration had been launching crackdowns to [...]

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In New South Wales, the police have begun to check phone records of drivers involved in fatal accidents to see if they were talking or texting at the time.
Their findings? Almost 1300 more motorists in New South Wales have been caught talking on their phone, without a handsfree kit, in the first six months of [...]

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Mobile phone companies have long offered free handsets to customers in order to sign up for contracts but now they are offering free laptops!
Carphone Warehouse started giving away laptops with its home broadband package last September. Now mobile operators are following suit.
Last month Orange became the first operator to offer laptops in its shops and [...]

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