Hugms connects to your mobile phone via Bluetooth and then when you squeeze it, is sends a “hug” text message to the person of your choosing.

UK paramedics have launched a campaign with Vodafone to encourage mobile phone owners to program emergency contact details into their phones:

By entering the acronym ICE – for In Case of Emergency – into the mobile’s phone book, users can log the name and number of someone who should be contacted in an emergency.

So that paramedics [...]

After all, since more than a quarter of the people on the planet already carry cell phones, and hundreds of millions are joining them every year, why should they bring along credit and debit cards when a mobile device can make payments just as well? This is not new, in fact this is already a [...]

INDEX: is a world event for design and innovation set to take place every four years in Copenhagen. INDEX: is launched in 2005.

Among the nominees: Mobile.Seed - It is a fully biodegradable mobile phone that contains a visible seed inside. One can plant it as a different disposal mode, and after a while a flower [...]

17-year-old boy and 19-year-old girl, both UAE nationals, were each sentenced to spend one month in jail. The teenagers were exchanging “indecent” pictures through their cellphones and sending pornographic pictures through email. The Dubai Court of First Instance heard that one of the girl’s friends was jealous of the relationship she had with her male [...]

NASA is developing a subvocal speech system that could enable you to make a phone call while keeping your lips sealed. How do you talk to someone without opening your mouth? Psychics call it telepathy. NASA refers to it as subvocal speech. Scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center in California have developed a system [...]

AwareFashion are clothes that react to invisible communication technology in the surrounding and thus enable the wearer to sense their immediate digital environment. The detection device is hidden in a detachable pocket and the fiber optics sewed into the cloth. When a mobile is near, small light spots appear on the sleeve.

Good news for mobile phone users. Emirati government licenses new telecom company with 1.08 billion dollars, breaking Etisalat�s monopoly.

Palestinian youths do not buy mobiles just to hear them ring.
�We send SMS alerts to university students in the Gaza Strip informing them about exam and registration dates and keep them updated on the latest developments in their respective universities. All they need is just o send us their full names, their universities and their mobile numbers.”

The following article was published in Washington Post yesterday. The author made it sound as if the Gulf countries are the only people in the world using the sms’s for social, political, etc… reasons. He made it sound so strange that made me wonder after I read it, SO? What is strange? I just can’t [...]