Mobile firm asks people to apply for top job by text

September 27th, 2009 LONDON - British security agency MI5 is urging women to apply for 25,000 pounds per year mobile surveillance officer roles. The unusual step comes at a time when the security services are suggested to be desperately short of women to carry out surveillance operations on the 2,000 terror suspects, being monitored up and down the country.

September 14th, 2009 LONDON - Britons keep almost 90 million unused phone handsets at home after they upgrade to new models, according to a countrywide survey. The research revealed that 52 per cent keep unused phones at home in case a current handset is stolen, lost or broken.

September 9th, 2009 CHICAGO - C-Sam, a technology company founded by Sam Pitroda, and Germany-based Giesecke and Devrient, have signed an agreement to integrate and leverage their respective expertise in the area of transactions over mobile phones. The pact allows them to offer customers a comprehensive secure transaction platform for mobile payments and other value added services such as mobile banking, money-transfers, ticketing, bill and premium payments and advertising.

September 2nd, 2009 British safety video on texting an Internet hitLONDON — A graphic public service announcement from British police about the dangers of sending text messages while driving has become a global Internet hit. Gwent Police in Wales say an extract from their video has been viewed more than 6 million times on YouTube and other sites.

August 22nd, 2009 TAIPEI - China Mobile Ltd, the world's largest mobile phone carrier, has decided to pick Taiwan's electronics giant Hon Hai Group as its supplier of electronic readers, a top company official said Saturday. "We have picked Hong Hai Group to make electronic readers for us and we believe the electronic reader market will be huge," said Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, on the second day of his nine-day visit to Taiwan.

August 14th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - As the race for Malaysian Indian Congress Youth chief intensifies, a hate text campaign against the main contenders for the post through text messages is on. Mobile phones of 527 delegates were reportedly flooded with short messages questioning the eligibility of the main candidate.

August 8th, 2009 LONDON - In a new technological breakthrough, a portable device has been developed to enable deaf-blind people to have face-to-face conversations. The DeafBlind Communicator (DBC) consists of a Braille note-taker linked by Bluetooth to a mobile phone, and it allows the user to make phone calls using a text relay service and to communicate by SMS.

July 26th, 2009 LONDON - The way text messages are composed using technological jargon and abbreviations is a new threat to clear language, the Plain English Campaign has warned on its 30th anniversary. The organisation likens incomprehensible instruction manuals and the 'text speak' associated with mobile phones and the internet to the hard-to-understand legal language of 'small print'.

June 22nd, 2009 SYDNEY - One in four Australians have caught their partners cheating on them through a text message, according to a new survey. The survey commissioned by Telstra's State of the Nation has found that four in 10 Aussies send up to seven text messages a day, while one in three use texts to tell others about major events like births or promotions.

May 26th, 2009 LONDON - Despite various campaigns, nearly 500,000 motorists are using hand-held mobile phones while driving, a new UK study has found. And the worst culprits are drivers of trucks and vans, the study found.

May 4th, 2009 TOKYO - A mobile phone has been launched in Japan that will help the country's citizens locate the nearest public toilet in double quick time. According to The Telegraph, users of the mobile lavatory locator are able to upload the free software from the Check A Toilet website.

April 24th, 2009 LONDON - A Nepali telecom firm is set to be the first to offer mobile coverage at the top of Mount Everest. Nepal Telecom said that it would set up mobile towers in Thakdin, Manjo, Pheriche and Gorak Shep, to bring the summit within the network coverage.

April 22nd, 2009 LONDON - A Japanese firm is launching a solar-powered waterproof mobile phone that can be entirely operated by exposure to sunlight. The new phone is a sunlight-powered device, which will be sold by mobile phone company KDDI from June, reports The Telegraph.

April 22nd, 2009 EU lawmakers approve new price cap on text messageSTRASBOURG, France — EU lawmakers voted Wednesday for a new price cap that will cut the cost of sending text messages from abroad by nearly two-thirds. Phone users will pay a maximum of 11 euro cents (14 cents) for sending text messages from another European Union nation starting July 1, down from the current average cost of 28 euro cents (36 cents).

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - If cellphone networks called botnets have their way, many mobile phones may soon become useless zombies. Botnets are networks of hacked computers recruited to assist in cybercrime without their owners realizing that their cell phones are being hacked.