Wired: A few columns ago, I mentioned my longing for a Treo 650. It’s a cell phone, yes, but it’s also a camera, an MP3 player, a phone book, an organizer. You can browse the web, check your e-mail, chat over IM, create spreadsheets and edit Microsoft Word documents, all from a device that fits in a shirt pocket. With […]

Forbes.com: In the past, telecom for kids didn’t get much more complex than two tin cans connected by a length of string. But times have changed. Children have become voracious consumers of cellular communication and today are the fastest-growing and most profitable segment of the mobile telephone world. As the overall cellular marketplace nears saturation, young consumers are bringing new […]

Virgin Mobile has revealed that the days of visiting church to confess your sins are becoming a thing of the past, as mobile users are now turning to their phones to own up to their worst sins. Virgin Mobile Bites features a service called ‘Sin to Win’, in which customers are invited to send in their sins in order to […]

Washington Post: Whenever his cell phone rings, which is a lot, Delvon Murray, 18, hears “My Boo,” the Alicia Keys-Usher duet. Whenever his girlfriend’s cell phone rings, she hears “In Love Wit Chu” from hip-hop artist Da Brat. These days, your cell phone identity goes beyond whether you get free weekend minutes or an expanded nationwide calling plan. It’s in […]

TheFeature.com: Lenses that mimic how the human eye works could prove the next innovation in cameraphones. Even as the megapixel count of cameraphones increases, image quality is still limited by their tiny fixed-focus lenses, which among other drawbacks, don’t gather light well. But one French company is developing liquid-lens technology that uses electrically charged fluids to change the shape of […]