dwango in Japan has released a fishing game that allows players to catch fish using a camera phone and QR codes. There are over 100 kinds of fish as well as unknown creatures and driftwood, which are encoded in different...

A mother and her daughter were taken to hospital with head injuries after being attacked by a gang with baseball bats, reports BBC News. The 48-year-old mother and her two daughters, aged 23 and 17, were walking home by the...

The next 12 months looks set to be the year mobile TV takes off, reports BBC news. Technology consultancy Strategy Analytics predicts that mobile firms will have about 50 million users of mobile TV by 2009, generating an estimated £3.5bn...

Ringtonia is making a pause until December 30. Emily is having a well-deserved holiday in Gstaad and i'll be in Berlin until Friday. I'll be online though, so if you have any irresistible story for textually, ringtonia or picturephoning, don't...

A new project will allow the growing number of Bluetooth-enabled camera phone users to organise their digital photo albums by automatically identifying and labelling the people and places within each snap, as they are taken, writes New Scientist. The concept,...

New York City will offer a free, live satellite feed of New Year's Eve in Times Square to video providers, plus a package of B-roll footage available Dec. 29, with behind-the-scenes and making-of footage, writes Broadcasting Cable. Eight cameras will...

SK Telecom Co. embraces the mottos "center of life" and "heart of pleasure", offering services ranging from mobile banking and mobile shopping to sophisticated music services, mobile bookstore, mobile coupon and telematics, writes Korea Herald. The article lists the impressive...

Emily annouced a few days ago that Italian cell phone company 3G had won the right to distribute feature films on cellphones just 10 days after they premiere in theaters. They are planning to offer their customers the ability to...

Samsung Electronics is to unveil the first handset PR movie in the world, Anyfilm, on the Christmas Eve, announces Telecoms Korea. Anyfilm consists of three 8-minute movies and one interactive film whose story can be changed according to each viewer’s...

Marc Davis at Yahoo's Berkeley research lab is working on a a camera phone concept that uses cell tower proximity to figure out where a picture is being taken, and takes names based on nearby Bluetooth mobile devices, then annotates the picture with that information. [via The Raw Feed ]

Time Magazine have chosen Adam Stacey's cameraphone picture as one of the Best Photos of the Year 2005 - of his experience on the london underground during the attack in London on the 7th of July 2005.

In Shinjuku, Tokyo, some street lamps were RFID tagged for the purpose of deliverying information to citizens - information about nearby stores, public facilities, etc. Attached to each street lamp was a so-called "information panel" that has an RFID tag embedded in it. The local goverment plans to tag more street lamps next year aiming at tagging all 10,000 street lamps in the region.... [via RFID in Japan]

This is wild. According to Cinematical, an Italian cell phone company has won the right to distribute feature films on cellphones just 10 days after they premiere in theaters. Memoirs of a Geisha will be available for downloading onto cell phones as early as December 27.

PC users in Scandinavia with 3 can send MMS, using text, voice, images and video to mobile phone users

A group of season ticket holders at Atlanta's Philips Arena can use RFID-enabled cell phones to download video clips and pictures of players—and, eventually, to make purchases. [via RFID Journal]

Swedish telecoms supplier Ericsson and Swiss operator Sunrise have announced a managed services contract to launch mobile TV services with video on demand in Switzerland.

Japanese users will now be able to download key scenes from the most successful movies of the last few decades to their mobile phones. The list of movies includes titles such as 'The Mummy Returns', 'American Pie', 'Apollo 13','Jurassic Park','Blues Brothers' and 'E. T.', among others.

NanoTV, produced by AnyScreen.com, launches today with a trial phase of its news and information service conceived and developed for mobile phones. This trial will be available in Switzerland on Swisscom’s Mobile Replay TV platform and run until March 31, 2006.

Ever wonder what Santa does before and after Xmas? You can find out on Nokia's new video blog, Santa.Spotting.com, which publishes Santa-off-duty-clips sent in from around the world.

A gang of youths who kicked a bar manager to death during one of their regular rampages of happy slapping violence were convicted of manslaughter yesterday.