Lebanese boycott mobile phones for three hours in protest at high costs (AFP)

Grok Headline matches for Lebanese boycott mobile phones for three hours in protest at high costs (AFP)

Lebanese shun mobile phones for a day in
protest at high costs (AFP)

Lebanese shun mobile phones for a day in
protest at high costs (AFP) 08/16/2004 08:06 AM
AFP - Lebanese mobile phone users were urged to leave their portable telephones at home or switched off in protest at what is considered one of the costliest services in the world.

Lebanese Boycott Cell Phones in Protest
(AP)

Lebanese Boycott Cell Phones in Protest
(AP) 07/16/2004 06:53 AM
AP - Thousands of Lebanese went without their beloved cell phones to protest fees they believe are too high, the consumer advocacy group that helped organize the boycott said Friday.

Voting Marred by Boycott, Protest at
Afghan Debate

Voting Marred by Boycott, Protest at
Afghan Debate 01/01/2004 07:55 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 1 2004 6:48AM ET

The use of mobile phones in Latin
America continues to rise with
approximately 123 million mobile phones
in Latin America compared with 89
million fixed line phones

The use of mobile phones in Latin
America continues to rise with
approximately 123 million mobile phones
in Latin America compared with 89
million fixed line phones 07/21/2004 02:32 AM
Research and Markets are delighted to announce the addition of 2004 Latin America - Mobile Communications Market to their offering [PRWEB Jul 21, 2004]

Wi-Fi Phones May Help Cut Calling Costs

Wi-Fi Phones May Help Cut Calling Costs 05/10/2004 08:37 AM
San Jose Mercury News May 10 2004 1:16PM GMT

Howdy Corporation - Cheaper Global Phone
Calls Using Howdy's Unique IP Telephony
Technologies For Your Mobile Phones And
Desktop Phones

Howdy Corporation - Cheaper Global Phone
Calls Using Howdy's Unique IP Telephony
Technologies For Your Mobile Phones And
Desktop Phones 08/05/2004 03:56 AM
[PRWEB Aug 5, 2004]

Security high for Nigeria protest

Security high for Nigeria protest 05/03/2004 05:22 AM
Police deploy for a rally by opposition supporters in the capital Abuja which has been branded "illegal".

Sumea and T-Mobile partner to publish
official UEFA EURO 2004™ Java game for
mobile phones

Sumea and T-Mobile partner to publish
official UEFA EURO 2004™ Java game for
mobile phones 06/09/2004 02:37 AM
Sumea’s EURO 2004™ FOOTBALL Brings the Action From Portugal to T-Mobile Subscribers [PRWEB Jun 9, 2004]

The High Costs of Hacking

The High Costs of Hacking 06/17/2005 04:44 PM

NTT DoCoMo Turns Mobile Phones Into
Mobile Wallets

NTT DoCoMo Turns Mobile Phones Into
Mobile Wallets 06/17/2004 11:44 AM
MobileMag Jun 17 2004 3:34PM GMT

Howdy Corporation – Cheaper Global Phone
Calls Using Howdy’s Unique IP Telephony
Technologies For Your Mobile Phones And
Desktop Phones

Howdy Corporation – Cheaper Global Phone
Calls Using Howdy’s Unique IP Telephony
Technologies For Your Mobile Phones And
Desktop Phones 08/12/2004 02:07 AM
Howdy Corporation – Cheaper Global Phone Calls Using Howdy’s Unique IP Telephony Technologies For Your Mobile Phones And Desktop Phones [PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]

Nortel Sees Costs Too High

Nortel Sees Costs Too High 07/27/2004 09:32 AM
TheStreet.com Jul 27 2004 2:04PM GMT

Bangladesh mobile phone protest

Bangladesh mobile phone protest 03/17/2005 03:39 AM
Mobile telephone users in Bangladesh demonstrate in the capital Dhaka to demand cheaper call charges.

Smart phones: Gen next of mobile phones

Smart phones: Gen next of mobile phones 08/11/2004 02:57 AM
indiaexpress.com Aug 11 2004 6:56AM GMT

LG Mobile Phones and Verizon Wireless
Introduce the Next Advancement in
Wireless Phones - the VX7000 Camera Ph

LG Mobile Phones and Verizon Wireless
Introduce the Next Advancement in
Wireless Phones - the VX7000 Camera Ph 07/01/2004 10:28 AM
Linux Electrons Jul 1 2004 1:45PM GMT

High-Tech Clocks Cut Down on Overtime
Costs

High-Tech Clocks Cut Down on Overtime
Costs 01/02/2004 07:22 PM
Red Nova Jan 2 2004 6:43PM ET

Finnish engineering students protest
high numbers (Reuters)

Finnish engineering students protest
high numbers (Reuters) 04/14/2005 06:50 AM
Reuters - Finland's 40,000 engineering students walked out of their classes Wednesday to put pressure on the government to reduce the number of engineering places.

Oracle Users Take Aim at High Costs,
Security Silence

Oracle Users Take Aim at High Costs,
Security Silence 09/24/2004 08:07 PM
While Oracle gets high marks for its technology, customers rate it "significantly lower" than IBM in five categories, and fewer than half of IT professionals surveyed say they trust Oracle.

Airline executives decry high fuel costs

Airline executives decry high fuel costs 06/04/2004 01:08 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Fri Jun 4, 12:36 am GMT

protest tech: TXTmob and other mobile
update services

protest tech: TXTmob and other mobile
update services 08/30/2004 12:03 PM
Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing reader Chris says,

The TXTmob service came into force at the DNC protests, and has really taken off so far this week at the RNC protests, helping organize and coordinate events in real time. Here's a sample of some of the messages that were sent yesterday (there's a full archive on the site, but it requires registration:

15:51:05 Sun, Aug 29 morgan Over 1000 protesters have gathered in Central Park, seems calm at this time.
16:00:30 Sun, Aug 29 morgan Police are not allowing bicycles to ride on the streets in the Times Square area.
16:11:56 Sun, Aug 29 morgan Update: police have closed 6 Ave and all streets west of 6ave from 34 St to 59 St to bicycles
16:14:56 Sun, Aug 29 morgan Kiss-in in progress! 5Ave @ 41 on the steps of the library
16:23:38 Sun, Aug 29 morgan The crowd on the Great lawn of Central Park is growing, police seem calm
16:37:07 Sun, Aug 29 morgan The Kiss-in is marching toward Times Square, and the mouse-bloc actions in that area are begining

Link, and more info on smartmobs blog

High-tech workers protest employee stock
options proposal

High-tech workers protest employee stock
options proposal 06/25/2004 05:29 PM
San Jose Mercury News Jun 25 2004 9:36PM GMT

NEC Electronics Introduces 3G Mobile
Phone Chip; Enables High-Speed Serial
Data Transmission and Rotating High

NEC Electronics Introduces 3G Mobile
Phone Chip; Enables High-Speed Serial
Data Transmission and Rotating High 07/15/2004 10:14 PM
JCNN Jul 16 2004 0:38AM GMT

Intel CEO sees no chip plant for Brazil
because of high labour costs

Intel CEO sees no chip plant for Brazil
because of high labour costs 09/18/2004 01:34 PM
Canadian Press Sep 18 2004 4:31PM GMT

Indiagames to Bring “World Cyber Games
Mobile Competition”, the World’s Largest
Computer & Video Game Festival, to
Mobile Phones

Indiagames to Bring “World Cyber Games
Mobile Competition”, the World’s Largest
Computer & Video Game Festival, to
Mobile Phones 03/14/2005 05:26 PM
Indiagames secures global rights to bring the WCG Mobile Game Competition. [PRWEB Mar 7, 2005]

Teen mobile phone costs an increasing
crime motive: Australian judge (AFP)

Teen mobile phone costs an increasing
crime motive: Australian judge (AFP) 08/05/2004 11:19 PM
AFP - An Australian judge said that teenagers wanting the latest in mobile phone fashions could soon spur more robberies than drugs.

Popular High-End Phones

Popular High-End Phones 01/16/2004 11:32 AM
CELLPHONES are so plentiful these days, they seem to grow on trees. Regardless of who your carrier is, you will find no lack of choices among handsets.

TECHBITS: Mobile protest, wireless
motes, grim IT jobs outlook, offline
commerce, pool-playing robot

TECHBITS: Mobile protest, wireless
motes, grim IT jobs outlook, offline
commerce, pool-playing robot 08/11/2004 05:24 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Aug 11 2004 7:38PM GMT

Nokia to secure high-end phones

Nokia to secure high-end phones 08/27/2004 02:07 PM

Australia to Get New High-Tech Pay
Phones (AP)

Australia to Get New High-Tech Pay
Phones (AP) 03/24/2005 12:18 AM
AP - Coming to Australia: New pay phones with color touch screens and high-speed Internet connections for sending text, photo and video messages.

Australia to Get New High-Tech Pay
Phones

Australia to Get New High-Tech Pay
Phones 03/23/2005 11:01 PM
AP via Newsday Mar 24 2005 3:24AM GMT

Q&A: 3G mobile phones

Q&A: 3G mobile phones 08/20/2004 01:02 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Thu Aug 19, 10:43 am GMT

Mobile Phones Shouldn't Be TVs

Mobile Phones Shouldn't Be TVs 11/17/2003 05:45 AM
In the past few months three major mobile phone makers (Sony, Samsung and Nokia) have announced plans to add TV tuners to their mobile phones and one major carrier (Sprint PCS) has launched a painfully slow (2 frames per second!) streaming TV option for some of their subscribers. The whole thing reminds me of the hype around portable TVs that were popular for a week or two in the eighties as the second coming of the walkman system. The idea was that if you liked carrying around your radio, wouldn't you like to carry around your TV as well? The answer turned out to be a big fat no, and most of the people who bought the TVs realized they never actually needed to watch TVs when they were out and about - because they were out and about doing something. So, why is the industry making the same mistake? Douglas Rushkoff thinks it's even worse, because having the mobile phone industry focusing on silly things like adding television to phones means they're spending less attention on improving the real reason people buy mobile phones: to have good voice calls. All the money and effort being spent on adding TVs no one wants could be better spent improving the mobile phone networks. He also has an interesting categorization of screen device "scales": inch, foot, yard. Inch devices (PDAs, phones) are for personal content or small bits of content - not for massive data retrieval. Foot devices (TVs, monitors) work as well for data input and data retrieval - and can be shared by just a few people at the same time. Yard devices (movie screens, big screen TVs, whiteboards) are better designed for one-to-many broadcast communication. He points out that realizing the basic size of the screen suggests the type of applications it's good for - and focusing too much on applications out of the sensible realm doesn't make sense.

Let Them Eat Mobile Phones

Let Them Eat Mobile Phones 09/22/2004 09:15 PM
Reuters is reporting that African leaders want to buy a bunch of mobile phones because "there are more telephones in Manhattan than in all Africa." Apparently, if you just add mobile phones to a bunch of poor countries, all else will be solved. I've taken a deeper look at this story over at TheFeature, where I compare the situation to the famous "cargo cults" of the South Pacific in World War II, where a confusion over the big picture (and cause and effect) led groups of people to think they could solve all their problems by mimicking the basic actions of others, but not getting to the root causes of the situation. I do think that technology can be a huge help to developing nations, but ad hoc solutions to "just add technology X" are never going to help unless the real issues are addressed first.

Big market for high-tech phones, says
Motorola

Big market for high-tech phones, says
Motorola 08/10/2004 07:20 PM
thestar.com.my Aug 10 2004 11:10PM GMT

Mobile phones to the rescue

Mobile phones to the rescue 01/05/2005 10:01 PM
ZDNet Australia Jan 6 2005 1:47AM GMT

Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying

Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying 04/13/2004 07:20 AM

Mobile phones rot your balls

Mobile phones rot your balls 06/28/2004 06:54 AM
Hello Moto. Goodbye Mojo

mobile phones are seeing more threats

mobile phones are seeing more threats 12/29/2004 08:44 PM
TechSpot Dec 30 2004 12:49AM GMT

LG launches 3G mobile phones

LG launches 3G mobile phones 02/01/2005 09:37 PM
The Tribune Feb 1 2005 10:53PM GMT
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