Lancaster Online.com: News : Driver on cell phone causes 4-car crash

Oops. Girl shows that it is hard to talk on the phone and drive at the same time.
Lancaster Online.com: News : Driver on cell phone causes 4-car crash

SMS Numbers From South Korea @ PhoneMag.com

SMS Numbers From South Korea @ PhoneMag.com

The Wired Are A Rude Bunch - Forbes.com

The Wired Are A Rude Bunch - Forbes.com

Welcome to Newsburst from CNET News.com

Here is a news reader that I like. You might want to register and try it out. It is from CNET. Welcome to Newsburst from CNET News.com

Telegraph | Connected | Explore coast by mobile

Citizen reporters become part of the 13 part documentary.Telegraph | Connected | Explore coast by mobile

Cell phones, cameras are no-nos at Warwick

Cell phones, cameras are no-nos at Warwick: "Cell phones are not allowed at the tournament the entire week. They can be distracting to players and tournament officials are promising they will be confiscated if fans are caught with them on the golf course."

Northwest Herald - Online

Northwest Herald - Online: "'The world's appetite for mobile phones has exceeded even the most optimistic expectations,' Ben Wood, a research vice president at Gartner, said in a statement."

Control Engineering - ZigBee adds to wireless mesh networking growth in industrial applications

More on zigbee and wireless mesh networking. Control Engineering - ZigBee adds to wireless mesh networking growth in industrial applications

Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Edinburgh - Cinema ban for mobiles in war on film pirates

Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Edinburgh - Cinema ban for mobiles in war on film pirates: "While they could not be used to pirate an entire film, the devices would allow parts of the latest blockbusters to be shown on-line months before they were due out in cinemas on general release, as well as using movie images for unauthorised purposes."

Gartner: A billion cell phones by 2009 | Tech News on ZDNet

Wow. And how many will have phones?Gartner: A billion cell phones by 2009 | Tech News on ZDNet: "Sales of cell phones are on pace to reach a billion annually by the end of the decade, when nearly 40 percent of the world's population will own a mobile handset, according to a Gartner report."

Here is a provocative post about phonecams and taking pictures of things like troop movements or terrorist attacks.

Reader's Representative: When citizens become the journalists

Minnesota Star Tribune offers tips on being a citizen photojournalist-- and starts with $50 for a black and white photo they run inside the paper...
Reader's Representative: When citizens become the journalists

The Korea Herald : The Nation's No.1 English Newspaper

The Korea Herald : The Nation's No.1 English Newspaper

AAS Features and Articles: Jumping ahead twelve months... convergence more and more a reality

What is the "one device" going to be in our converged future. This writer says we already know that it is going to be the phonecam (mp3, gamestation, etc. ) AAS Features and Articles: Jumping ahead twelve months... convergence more and more a reality

Chicago Tribune news : Technology

This was bound to happen-- "stealing" wifi and getting busted for it. Note to the reporter who covered the story--a guy like this probably uses IM or SKYPE, not the telephone...
Chicago Tribune news : Technology: "By Associated Press
Published July 6, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT



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First Draft by Tim Porter: London Bombings: The Unread Newspaper

This is an important article that shows how citizen reporters and newspapers and other mainstream media fit together today. It puts what many people have been saying into a real world context. It makes the abstract discussion concrete. I am going to make my students read this in the Fall. First Draft by Tim Porter: London Bombings: The Unread Newspaper

Newsday.com: Cell Phone Cameras a New Tool for TV News

TV stations use video from phonecams in London bombing incident. This is the first time that major TV stations have used the grainy but immediate footage that comes from phonecams. However, they call it a "portend of things to come."

If you haven't read "Transmetropolitan" by Warren Ellis, you might want to page through this graphic nove. There are characters who are just citizens who walk around the metropolis "wired up" with "feedcams" so that any news they witness can be immediately broadcast to the Internet and everyone who is connected to the "feed." It is coming...Newsday.com: Cell Phone Cameras a New Tool for TV News

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea

More on "Dog poop girl" story of cyber "posse" and online "shaming." from CJR Daily

How extensive was this cyberposse coverage? Photos from Yahoo Korea

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea

Search Engine Journal » London Bomb Blast Heard Across Internet

Search Engine Journal » London Bomb Blast Heard Across Internet

"today’s London Bombing was interestingly enough one of the first examples of world news instantly documented by groups of mobile, unassuming and unintentional journalists. With the world wired together by wireless mobility, the BBC and CNN’s of the global media received first account footage of the events from cell phones, hand held mobile PC’s, and digital cameras."

RED HERRING | Cheap Phones for Third World

Wiring the world...RED HERRING | Cheap Phones for Third World

WeatherBug(R) Mobile & Sprint Deliver First Live Local Weather Conditions to Java-Enabled Handhelds

Neighborhood weather, live, from your phonecam. WeatherBug(R) Mobile & Sprint Deliver First Live Local Weather Conditions to Java-Enabled Handhelds

Moving Beyond Ringtones

Coming in 2006 is "Cyworld" and "minihomepys" or minihomepages from SK Telecomm of Korea. This is a web "place" where the user has an avatar and can buy accessories for the avatar. One beautifies one's minihomepy with wallpapers and background music. The site costs nothing. The revenue is generated from user's buying the various decorations for their minihomepy. Note the trend in cellphones toward generating revenue beyond ringtones. Its coming to the USA next year....Moving Beyond Ringtones: "The primary appeal of the cell phone is its ubiquity; nationally, more than 60 percent of people carry a cell phone, making the potential audience huge. The success and profitability of other add-on functions, such as picture messaging, ringtones and various entertainment services, is bolstering the case that the cell phone could become the Holy Grail of consumer electronics: the all-in-one device."

Calling the shots - Icon - Technology - theage.com.au

Calling the shots - Icon - Technology - theage.com.au This is an interesting idea that phonecams are different from cameras because they are immediate.

"Twenty years ago at a concert, fans would have held up lighters," Hjorth says. "Now they hold up camera phones." They can check out the photo or video when they get home because, after all, the experience "has to be mediated - that's how you know it's real".