No health risk for kids from mobile phones: German study (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Radiation from mobile phones has no short-term health impact on children and teenagers, a new German government study showed on Monday.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Shoppers to use mobile phones to scan product information (Computing.co.uk)
Bryan Glick, Computing , Tuesday 13 January 2009 at 10:37:00 Retailers and manufacturers working on plan to allow customers to retrieve product details by scanning bar codes with a camera phone Retailers and consumer goods manufacturers are working on a project that could see customers using mobile phones to retrieve vital nutritional information about products while in store. …
Source: rss.feedsportal.com
Privacy Groups File Mobile Marketing Complaint With FTC (PC World via Yahoo! News)
Two privacy groups on Tuesday asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to regulate how mobile marketers can use consumers’ personal information, saying many people don’t know when their information is being collected from cell phones and how it’s being used.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Study sees no eye cancer risk from mobile phones (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Regular mobile phone use does not appear to increase a person's risk of getting a type of cancer called melanoma of the eye, German researchers said on Tuesday.
Source: nz.news.yahoo.com
NEC Develops Speech Interpretation Software for Mobile Phones (Japan Corporate News)
Tokyo, Jan 5, 2009 – (JCN Newswire) – NEC Corporation announced today the development of automatic software for mobile phones that quickly and accurately provides interpretation of words and phrases commonly associated with travel.
Source: www.japancorp.net
