While Palestinians and Israelis are moving ahead with peace talks, Israel will allow the Palestinians to set up a new cell phone network to meet growing demand. Israel controls all frequencies for cell phones in the West Bank and Gaza, and ever since violence erupted between the sides in 2000, Israel’s defense ministry has turned…

Before you say “WTF,” let me emphasize that this is actually nice and planet-loving idea with the point to welcome Christmas without cutting any trees. Apparently, Taiwan’s port city Kaohsiung will gather 50,000 people on Shidai Avenue in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, to form the shape of a giant Christmas tree. The participants will hold up…

Remember EU’s directive that limits how much mobile operators can charge for roaming? It is/was the profit killer for the high-margin businesses like mobile operators and it seemed only natural we’ll see them complaining about the decision. And they’ve just started their appeal process.. Just recently, four of the leading mobile operators in UK were…

In case you thought that $10 “unlimited mobile browsing plan” allows you to tether your phone to your computer, think again. A Canadian man from Calgary thought tethering was included in the price, hence he went forward using its mobile phone like a modem all the time. After a month of downloading HD movies and…

Don’t you just love the stories involving numbers from China and India? For one thing I love them — they show us just how much mobile industry is growing. Last year, Chinese mobile phone users send 429 billion text messages! Or to put it in a perspective, an average of 967 SMS were sent per…

Young nerds in Australia should thank mobile technology for providing the new ways to report and stop bullying. Apparently, schools around the country will get the new “Bully buttons,” which students push when they are being bullied. Instantly, if there are surveillance cameras around, they’re swinging around and record the area around the button. In…

Thanks to the mobile technology, people in South Africa can easily find out their HIV status. In order to do that, they need to SMS the word “HIV” to 31771 followed by their post code or town name, and they’ll get an SMS back with two nearest testing locations. In addition to fixed locations, six…

While we all know when it comes to mobile technology, Japan is THE most advanced market on the planet, we were shocked to learn that half of the top ten selling works of fiction in H1 2007 were composed on mobile phones. Now you may be thinking we’re talking about 10 books in total, but…

While I do agree it’s the arguable fact that mobile phones have improved our daily lives, some people — including the truly yours — certainly think so. And I’m sure I’m not the only one… While we’re on the subject of improving lives with mobile technology, apparently homeless people are also increasing using mobile phones.…