Oz teens increasingly betting mobile phones, virginity

October 13th, 2009 SYDNEY - An online database will now allow mobile phone users to see how much radiation they may be exposed to because of their cells. According to a report carried out in www.news.com.au, the database, created by the Environmental Working Group in Washington, ranks more than 1000 mobiles by the amount of radiation they emit.

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 4th, 2009 LAHORE - Terrorists detained in different prisons across the country are planning attacks from prisons, Pakistan Interior Ministry sources said. According to a private television, top militant commanders, who are locked inside different prisons, are in constant touch with their associates through mobile phones and other communication equipment and are planning terror attacks from there.

September 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Mobile phones of Princes William and Harry may have been hacked, it has been suggested. Detective Chief Superintendent Philip Williams, from the Metropolitan Police, mentioned the probability.

September 3rd, 2009 LONDON - The mobile phones of British princes William and Harry may have been hacked into by tabloid reporters, a senior British police officer said. Detective Chief Superintendent Philip Williams of the Metropolitan Police spoke of his suspicion at a hearing Wednesday of the British parliament's select committee on culture, media and sport.

September 2nd, 2009 MELBOURNE - High school students in Australia reportedly filmed sex acts fearing that the Large Hadron Collider was about to end the world. According to the Courier-Mail, the police are investigating at least three teenagers from a Brisbane state high school for allegedly filming sex acts on a mobile phone, and distributing it to other students.

July 16th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Call it "materialism" or simple liking, but most people prefer to sacrifice breakfast than live without their mobile phones or favourite bag, a new Australian study has found. The research conducted by arnold and bolingbroke on the bequest of American Express focussed on the attachment Aussies have to the personal possessions they carry every day.

July 2nd, 2009 LOS ANGELES - A new satellite designed to allow the convergence of cellphones and satellite phones throughout the US was successfully launched Thursday, mobile communications provider TerreStar announced. Weighing 6,910 kg, TerreStar-1 is the largest commercial satellite ever and was launched by Arianespace from Kourou, French Guiana Tuesday.

June 1st, 2009 NEW YORK - Virginity auction girl Natalie Dylan will not be giving up her virtue anytime soon because the Aussie lad who bought the 22-year-old's virginity for 3.8 million dollars has backed off. Dylan, from California, admitted that the deal had fallen through.

May 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Alina Percea, the 18-year-old Romanian girl who auctioned off her virginity for 8,800 pounds, could lose half the money in tax, with the act classed as "tantamount to prostitution". Alina, who is a student in Germany, was paid in cash for a weekend of sex with the Italian businessman after she auctioned her virginity online.

May 20th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The 18-year-old Romanian girl who sold her virginity online for 20,000 dollars has revealed the details about her night with the winning bidder. Pretty Alina Percea had auctioned her virginity on a website so that she could afford to study computing at university, reports The Daily Telegraph.

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 - German teen Alina Percea's virginity has finally been auctioned off online at 9,000 pounds on April 23 to an unnamed Italian man. Percea, 18, who has been running the sale on German erotic website gesext.de, for the past month, plans on using the cash to go to university and to help her poor family back home in aracal, Romania "It was very exciting.

April 18th, 2009 LONDON - A teenage student in Germany, who is auctioning her virginity on the Internet, has revealed that three persons have raised bids up to more than 5,500 pounds ever since a doctor has confirmed that she is still innocent. Brunette Alina Percea was earlier not allowed to go on with the sales by the website, after one of her former teachers raised doubts she was still a virgin.