Of the ways to spot that you may be dating someone who is already married, I think it's time to take the "he/she only gives me his/her mobile number, not their home number" line off the tell-tale list of possible giveaways. "A bad sign is that he only gives you a cell phone number, not a home number, and gives you some excuse about how he's never home (so ... Read full entry

The crew at Sony Ericsson recently gave me one of their newest mobile phones, the C902 Cyber-shot to call my own for a couple of months. Given my love of taking photos I've been waiting for a chance to try out the phone's five mega-pixel camera up at the nearby UNSW campus ... Read full entry

With the increasing usage of IP telephony, and phones calls made via internet connections, Spam Over Internet Telephony, or SPIT, could become a far bigger problem than email spam. Spit is particularly annoying because a call is more intrusive than a spam email. What's more, spam filters don't block spit since the content of a call is only known once it has been made. Existing [but not ... Read full entry

Like the fax machine, which was invented in 1843, mobile phones have been around far longer than commonly perceived, with Lars Magnus Ericsson, founder of the Ericsson communications company, developing the concept in 1910, for use as a car phone. From 1910 on it appears that Lars Magnus Ericsson and his wife Hilda regularly worked the first car telephone. Yes, this was the man who founded Ericsson ... Read full entry

Apparently it's possible. Simon Usborne talks to eight people who live, and work, without a mobile phone. People become obsessed with looking at them and fiddling with them. It's all right if you're a teenager, but there's something pathetic about adults checking their mobiles all the time and texting. People get equally irritated by my failure to use one. If you're supposed to be meeting someone, they will ask for ... Read full entry