Yenra: The Firefly phone is the first and only mobile phone explicitly designed for tweens that satisfies parents’ concerns about unrestricted mobile phone use and monthly costs. The Firefly phone is a pioneering voice-only phone designed for the smaller hands of kids aged eight to twelve years old. With just five keys instead of a regular dial pad, parents use […]

icSouthlondon: A text message service telling council tenants about housing repairs could be introduced. Under the scheme tenants’ representatives will get an alert about “one-off jobs” on things such as communal lighting and stairwells. But recipients will not be able to reply and messages won’t be worded in trendy teen speak, authority chiefs have promised. Lambeth council computer expert David […]

InfoWorld: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB is readying a series of multimedia kiosks that it hopes will save operators, retailers and users time and money when it comes to fixing common phone faults. The company showed an early sample of the kiosks in its booth at the 3GSM World Congress. A common remedy for mobile phone performance problems is to […]

IndiaDaily: Over 34 million mobile phone subscribers in Russia can now add colour to their sexual life the Indian way, albeit by listening to passages from the “Kamasutra” on their mobile phones. An advertisement for Russia’s largest GSM operator Mobile Tele Systems entices its subscribers to use the new service to “master new sensations” and “listen to passages from the […]

Adverblog: Swisscom Mobile, the Swiss Post and The Communication Museum have launched a cool initiative to engage users with MMS. In English it would be called “Swiss Mobile – A Country on the Go” in German it’s “Swiss mobil – Ein Land unterwegs”. The three partners are going to create the first series of stamps made with photographs taken with […]

Wireless Developer Network: The digital images of Sweethearts® candy, the famous tiny pastel-colored candy hearts with sayings such as “Be Mine,” will be brought to wireless handsets by FunMail, a leading wireless entertainment company. In a deal brokered by Brand Central, The New England Confectionery Company (NECCO®) has licensed FunMail the rights to provide wireless wallpaper images of its world-famous […]

NewsFactor: Ogo from Cingular provides mobile workers with a relatively inexpensive way to send and receive e-mail and SMS messages. It will appeal to small businesses that want to communicate with their employees but do not need all the features of complicated PDAs or smartphones. Developed under the direction of AT&T Wireless, the pocket-sized Ogo is a low-cost, data-only terminal […]

The Mobile Technology Weblog: SMSeenHuis (“Text a House”) is a Dutch service that allows mobile users to text the Real Estate boards outside residential houses. In response, they get details of asking price, address, number of rooms and square footage, along with the Real Estate Agent contact details. Participating real estate agents pay a EUR 20 fee (USD 27 / […]

Textually: A new service launching this week lets people’s mobile phone rule their life. Subscribers to “This Mobile Will Change Your Life” receive SMS text message orders which they must carry out immediately, in Mission Impossible-style. Orders vary from the straightforward (“kiss the nearest tall stranger”) to the hazardous (“Walk into a police station, tell them you’re finally giving yourself […]

Yahoo! News: For the average Japanese teenager, a cell phone is a must-have item, used for email, taking photos and keeping track of dates, in addition to the simple phone call. But a quick stroll around the hip Shibuya district of Tokyo shows that cell phones in Japan have also become an important identity statement, with accessories like straps, antenna […]