Top Stories (Weekend of June 24/25, 2006)
– Celebrities love their T-Mobile Sidekick 3 221 pictures of all the celebs who turned out for the T-Mobile Sidekick 3 launch party. Jessica Simpson, Eva Longoria, Mischa Barton, Nicole Richie, and, of course, everyone’s favourite, Paris Hilton, plus many, many more. Strangely enough, though, no Lindsay Lohan. EgoTastic – Mobile texting speeds can help diagnose stroke A difficulty in sending mobile-phone text messages could be an early symptom of neurological disease, doctors have warned. A team of researchers in Dublin has coined the phrase Dystextia to alert phone-users who notice a slowdown in their text-typing speed to be aware of potential neurological problems. TimesOnline – Playboy to have hardcore adult content on mobile phones too Playboy Enterprises‘ latest acquisition of hardcore adult entertainment Club Jenna (a business founded by porn star Jenna Jameson) has implications for the mobile content too. With the acquisition, the company expects to rapidly ramp up film production, roll out about 30 features in the first year and use them for delivery through not just DVDs, but also through TV channels, video-on-demand services and even mobile phones. MocoNews – Your cellphone is coming out! A new mobile content portal for the gay and lesbian community called Medialicious.TV has just launched. Featuring original ringtones and wallpapers from leading LGBT and LGBT-friendly celebrities, musicians, comedians and artists, the Medialicious initiative evolved from changes in the media industry that have opened up opportunities for new voices to tell their stories. Ringtonia – Motorla RAZR V3 Blue launched by Cingular Cingular has become the first US carrier (Rogers has it in Canada) to release Motorola’s RAZR V3 in Blue. The features remain the same as all other RAZR V3’s. Cingular is selling the blue RAZR V3 for $99 after a $50 mail-in rebate. It also carries the pink, black and original silver versions of the device. MobileTracker – Office staff put texting before work Half of office workers spend more time e-mailing or texting friends than actually working in order to achieve a better work-life balance, say researchers. But the trend, identified as cyber socialising, causes thousands of workplace errors costing businesses £761 million each year in lost data. Telegraph