Chinese police will monitor mobile phone payment platforms, focusing on larger transactions, as a key part of their efforts to close down pornographic websites, informs Interfax China. "As everyone knows, pornographic photos and service providers set their prices fairly high....

South Koreans may look at their mobile phones with some trepidation in the new year because prosecutors will start telling people they have been indicted via text messages, writes CNN. "Most people in South Korea have mobile phones and since...

Textually 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...

All Maggie Bergara wanted for Christmas was a quiet car, explains Record Online. As the woman began fantasizing about buying "one of those zappers" in October, she wondered: "Can we do this?" The Federal Communications Commission has some objections....

Make a wish by a cellphone and spread good karma to your beloved ones! Tree is a symbol of eternity and long life in Asian culture. People in Asian countries worship trees just as they worship other gods. Besides...

Cellphone charms are now sporting little display plates powered by solar, that you can hang on your mobile phone. Asian store CellphoneGeek offers Solar Power Flash Plates to fix on your cell phone. They feature Snoopy, Doraemon, Winnie, Angel...

China has begun building large-scale trial networks based on a home-grown third-generation mobile telephone standard, writes The Australian. Construction of the networks in Shanghai and other cities is the strongest evidence yet of China's determination to create a central role...

Computers and mobiles phones are playing an increasingly valuable role in helping doctors and patients monitor conditions such as diabetes on a daily basis, explains BBC News. And government ministers believe that new technology can also be harnessed to help...

A woman's row with her boyfriend about a mobile phone suddenly went quiet - when she swallowed the handset whole, writes BBC news. Police in Blue Springs, Missouri, said they were called out by a man who said his girlfriend...

NEC announced a new "customer relationship support solution" for personalized in-store services that match customers' preferences and personal traits. Customers shows either "RFID-chipped mobile phone straps" or customer loyalty cards to an in-store RFID device. Then, their purchase histories, preferences,...

FaithMobile promises to keep "the active modern community connected to the inspirational word of God." FaithMobile allows subscribers "to practice the presence of God any moment of the day – listening in traffic, reading during the lunch break, being inspired...

The Finnish city's bus operator, Koskilinjat, and transportation applications provider Buscom are testing a system that lets passengers use mobile phones as transit cards, reveals RFID journal. The trial, set to last until next summer, has begun with 10 employees...

What kind of cellphone is best for a 5-year-old? Millions of parents think that parent-child separations occur almost every day, brought about by play dates, after-school activities, getting lost at the mall, parents working late and the shuttling between divorced...

Despite a huge increase in interest in SMS technology within the non-governmental organisation sector, many find the technology out of reach due to a combination of lack of expertise, a lack of direction, and cost. Designed with the needs of...

The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry in Japan plans to develop an emergency-broadcast system capable of automatically turning on cell phones so it can send a warning alarm and information to them in case of a major earthquake or other...

The ritual of exchanging business cards could beome a thing of the past after Japanese researchers devised a way to swap data just through a handshake, writes Baku Today. If two people each wear a 50-gram (1.75-ounce) device the size...

An Austrian man who used an oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler for his cell phone voice mail has been sentenced to two months in prison, reports WISTV. Police accidentally came across the message --which includes the repeating of the...

British Airways has launched its global mobile messaging strategy for customers and staff, reports Netimperative. The customer service benefit of mobile was proved this week, with BA using it to help cope with disruptions caused by the Hemel Hempstead oil...

Thanks to wireless laptops, Internet-enabled cell phones and telecommuting, some say, the bus and subway strike has not caused the utter chaos that many people had expected, explains CNN. "We're open for business as usual," said Selena Morris, spokeswoman for...

Already 98 per cent of Finns have a mobile phone. Nearly half the population relies exclusively on a mobile phone, writes NewsRoom Finland. Only two per cent of Finns anymore depend solely on a fixed-line telephone, according to a survey...