Japanese teens addicted to mobile phones: survey (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Mobile phones are taking centre stage in the lives of Japanese teenagers, who often send or receive dozens of emails a day while eating, attending school or even taking a bath, according to survey.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Mobile Phones as Banking Tools for the Poor (AnandTech)
Bill Gates’ charitable foundation has pledged $12.5M in efforts toward helping poor people worldwide gain access to banking through mobile phones. …
Source: www.dailytech.com
Maha bans use of mobile phones in schools (The Economic Times)
Maharashtra government has banned use of mobile phones in public and private schools upto class 10 across the state.
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com
MotoSport plans to drive product alerts to customers mobile phones (InternetRetailer.com)
Personalization software vendor Certona Corp. has added a new software-as-a-service offering that pushes behaviorally targeted and requested product content out to subscribed customers via e-mail or mobile device.
Source: www.internetretailer.com
Mumbai Attack Probe Links Mobile Phones to Italy, Corriere Says (Bloomberg)
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — Mobile phones used by terrorists in the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai were activated by a payment from Brescia, Italy, Corriere della Sera reported, citing Indian intelligence shared with European anti-terrorism investigators.
Source: www.bloomberg.com
Southern Oregon newspapers available on mobile phones (The Portland Business Journal)
Ashland Daily Tidings and Medford Mail Tribune are among the Ottaway Newspapers now available on mobile-friendly products, such as phones.
Source: www.bizjournals.com
Funambol Releases Free Open Source MobileWe Update for BlackBerry, Symbian and Billions of Mobile Phones (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Funambol, the leading provider of open source push email and mobile sync for users worldwide, today announced the immediate availability of an important new release of its open source MobileWe software for billions of mobile phones.
Source: biz.yahoo.com
JB Hi-Fi caught selling used phones as new (iTNews)
JB Hi-Fi claims a ‘procedural error’ led to one of its stores selling used mobile phones as new - a glitch that has seen the retailer dragged over the coals by the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission.
Source: www.itnews.com.au
