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A Chilean psychic has been receiving digital photos from the Virgin Mary. How often to you read an opening line like that? Ananova reported in their 'Quirkies' section Ricardo Gonzales has received images from Mary. The MMS messages were of divine representations. Not wanting to be deceived in...

You might remember that Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton both use diamond encrusted T-Mobile Sidekicks. Well, that was until both celebrities had them stolen during a night at Shelter in LA. The following day both celebs pushed through the gawkerazzi into the Beverly Hills' T-Mobile location and...

Cingular Wireless, America's largest carrier, has just announced that they too will stop offering customers the option of downloading racy images, videos, and violent games despite the profits foreshadowed by European and Asian wireless providers. "We're not going to offer adult content; we're not...

So you think that zit looked big in the mirror this morning? Just wait until it's on one of the jumbo screens in downtown Toronto. Nokia has launched a campaign that focuses on putting your picture on electronic billboards across Toronto during the holiday season. The Say Hello Toronto campaign...

Are you tired of your Nokia phone blowing up in your face? I am. Nokia has started a program to stop the sale of conterfeit batteries that have sullied their good name. Nokia will label each new battery with a holographic label containing a series of symbols. In addition, a 20-digit authentication...

I can't count the times I've read that 'conclusively' cell phones damage your brain. Then soon after a contradictory report claims otherwise. Well, the latest report, titled the Reflex Study, was carried out over a four year period by the German research group Verum. They concluded that radio waves...

The International Telecommunication Union recently reported that 1.5 billion people globally are subscribed to cellular services. This number is slightly less than fixed line telephone service, but continues to rise. By the end of this year, the report said, global revenues from mobile networks were...

NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries announced today that they will start selling the F901iC 3G FOMA® handset, the latest model in the 901i series, nationwide on December 24, 2004. This is not the sexiest of the new FOMA phones, but its screen colors, sound, video capability,...

The Apple/Motorola cell phone should be in the hands of eager Apple fans soon. "We've said we have something coming on this in the first half of 2005 and we're definitely on schedule for that. Hopefully you'll be able to see more about it soon," says Eddy Cue, vice president in charge of...

You gotta love DoCoMo. Not only do they deliver some of the sexiest cell phones on the planet, but now they've achieved 100Mbps download speeds in lab tests. Moreover, these speeds were reached when the receiver was both stationary and moving up to 30km/sec. I'm not going to bore you with the...

Napster recently announced that it has teamed up with Dwango to sell ringtones as part of a new service called Napster Mobile. The official press release reads like it was put together by a over zealous teenager with his first thesaurus, but we think we know what's happening. Napster will develop...

Don't you love those oral history headphones you can get at museums? Well now, thanks to a project called [murmur], you don't need to confine your history lesson to those "no flash photography" corridors. [murmur] collects and curates stories set in specific Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal...

Mobile clubbing, the form of flash mobbing involving dance moves, doesn't appeal to me. The latest version however is the type of public gyrating I could get used to. Get Alerted (via cell phone). Show up with pillow. Knock the stuffing out of each other.Mobile Pillow Fighting

Samsung will start to produce a higher capacity thumb-nail sized memory card for cell phones in the first quarter of 2005. Announced recently, Samsung has already provided undisclosed cell phone makers with the cards to test and presumably design new phones around. The MMCmicro cards are 14mm by...

A low-carb diet for my portly cellular phone, you say? Well, not quite. Atkins will soon unveil a set of mobile software for Atkins dieters. "Atkins 2Go", developed by Digital Chocolate, allows dieters to track their personal weight loss statistics and gives them access to carbohydrate food...

Recently an ill-boding email has been making its rounds to American cell phones users. The email states that telemarketers will soon be allowed to bother you on your cell phone. It then gives details on how to register at the government's national do-not-call list. Lois Greisman, the Federal Trade...