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UK Church Offers Animal Blessings Via Twitter
May 18th 2012 - 08:55 GMT
A church in Surrey, UK plans to hold a service this weekend, where the vicar will offer a blessing to the parishioners pets - via Twitter....more

Study Finds Number of Battery-related Emergency Department Visits by Children More Than Doubles
May 15th 2012 - 08:33 GMT
Every 90 minutes, a child younger than 18 years of age is seen in a US emergency department for a battery-related problem...more

60% of Employees Expected to Work from Home in the Next Decade
May 14th 2012 - 17:57 GMT
More than half (60%) of employees will work from home in the next decade, according to the findings of a survey carried out by Virgin Media Business. Face-to-face meetings with customers and prospects will also change with 72 percent believing getting together in person will soon be a thing of the past....more

Two French Politicians Demand 466 Tweets Saying Sorry from Twitter User
May 2nd 2012 - 17:16 GMT
Two French politicians are suing a Twitter user, Baptiste Fluzin after he allegedly posted insulting messages about them on the Twitter website....more

Researchers Combat Disease with a Cell Phone, Google Maps and a Lot of Ingenuity
April 27th 2012 - 16:00 GMT
In the fight against emerging public health threats, early diagnosis of infectious diseases is crucial. And in poor and remote areas of the globe where conventional medical tools like microscopes and cytometers are unavailable, rapid diagnostic tests, or RDTs, are helping to make disease screening quicker and simpler....more

Tech Needs Girls: Leaders Draw Up Roadmap for Female Tech Education and Careers
April 27th 2012 - 08:11 GMT
Global leaders from the US, Europe, Africa and Asia joined together today to debate and define a roadmap that will help break down barriers and overturn outmoded attitudes in a bid get more girls into technology-related studies and careers....more

6.8 Million Birds Die Each Year at Communication Towers
April 26th 2012 - 08:52 GMT
More than 6 million birds die every year as they migrate from the United States and Canada to Central and South America, according to a new study published in the open access journal PLoS ONE. ...more

Two-and-a-half Years in Jail for Prolific Smartphone Robber
April 23rd 2012 - 18:38 GMT
A prolific teenage robber responsible for 18 smartphone thefts at a London railway station has been jailed for two-and-a-half years....more

USA's Consumer Electronics Industry Increased Recycling 53% in 2011
April 16th 2012 - 16:16 GMT
The USA's Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has reported that the country's consumer electronics (CE) industry dramatically increased its recycling in 2011....more

India Recommends SMS Verification on Medicines to Cut Down on Counterfeits
April 13th 2012 - 08:13 GMT
A high-level task force on pharmaceutical manufacturing has recommended the adoption of unique code verification technology and mobile SMS authentication for all domestic medicines produced in India. ...more

Too Engrossed in Sending a Text to See the Black Bear
April 11th 2012 - 12:37 GMT
Never text while walking because who knows you may encounter a bear anytime....more

BlackBerry Party Stabbing Victim Dies of Injuries
April 10th 2012 - 13:10 GMT
A man stabbed with a broken bottle at a BlackBerry hosted party in London last week has died of his injuries, the police have confirmed....more

Technologists Look to Improve Uses of Social Media During Crises
April 10th 2012 - 08:06 GMT
Technologists, government workers and activists are trying to find ways to improve the use of so-called crowd-sourced information during times of environmental and political crisis. Many lag far behind what businesses are already doing....more

New Submarine Cables Set to Revolutionize West African Internet
April 10th 2012 - 08:03 GMT
Slow downloads and faulty Internet connections could soon become distant memories in West Africa. Two underwater fiber-optic cables stretching from Europe down the western coast of Africa are set to go online in mid-2012....more

Tiny Firm Offers to Swap RIM's BlackBerry Assets for Shares
April 5th 2012 - 10:33 GMT
A tiny marketing company has issued a press release where it announced an offer to buy the entire BlackBerry assets held by Research in Motion...more

Gilgit Cell Phone Service Suspended
April 5th 2012 - 08:33 GMT
Pakistan's federal government April 4 jammed mobile phone service in Gilgit, a day after sectarian clashes caused at least 14 deaths and over 50 injuries in Gilgit and Chilas, ...more

Mobile Technology Helps Explore Nicotine Addiction
April 4th 2012 - 16:27 GMT
Some people quit smoking on the first try while others have to quit repeatedly. Using such mobile technology as hand-held computers and smartphones, a team of researchers from Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh is trying to find out why....more

Man Stabbed After Drunken Fight at BlackBerry Publicity Party
April 4th 2012 - 08:15 GMT
A party organised by Reasearch in Motion's publicity team for journalists and selected customers turned ugly last night after a man was stabbed with a broken bottle....more

Egyptian Entrepreneurs Hope Technology, Google Funding, Will Spur Economy
April 4th 2012 - 07:57 GMT
Several dozen technology entrepreneurs think they have what it takes to spur job creation, despite political uncertainty. They are taking part in a competition sponsored by Google, which will award a $200,000 prize to one business....more

Five Year in Jail with Hard Labour for Mobile Airtime Theft
March 26th 2012 - 17:46 GMT
A sales rep working for a Zambian phone and airtime retailer has been jailed for five years in jail - with hard labour, after being convicted of theft from his employer....more

Service Change at T-Mobile Deletes Dead Daughters Voicemail Messages
March 24th 2012 - 08:59 GMT
T-Mobile USA has been caught up in a very public moment of grief after a father told news media that voicemail messages from his dead daughter were deleted by the mobile network operator....more

To Combat Identity Theft, Protect Computer
March 19th 2012 - 14:54 GMT
Having a triple-threat combination of protective software on your computer greatly reduces your chances of identity theft, according to a study led by a Michigan State University criminologist....more

Kenya Plans 'Silicon Savannah' to Build on Tech Growth
March 19th 2012 - 14:47 GMT
It is hard to escape the images of "Konza City" in Kenya. Advertisements promoting the future high-tech hub, or "technopolis," appear daily in the country's newspapers and show regularly on the state television network....more

Reboot Encourages Taking a Break from Technology
March 19th 2012 - 11:05 GMT
Reboot says that it is using Facebook to unite technology addicts in a pledge to stop texting, tweeting and "checking in" for the third annual National Day of Unplugging (NDU)....more

Ericsson Supplying Mobile Broadband Optimised Computers to Schools
March 19th 2012 - 08:31 GMT
Eight secondary schools in Africa have now received the PC as a Service solution, a cloud-computing solution that provides schools with a low-maintenance model that is optimized for mobile broadband networks....more

US Radio Show Retracts Story Criticising Apple Factories in China
March 16th 2012 - 18:13 GMT
The US weekly radio show, This American Life is planning to retract a story they ran in January that accused China's Foxconn of serious abuses in its factories where Apple products are manufactured....more

Cell Phone Use in Pregnancy May Cause Behavioral Disorders in Offspring
March 15th 2012 - 15:09 GMT
Exposure to radiation from cell phones during pregnancy affects the brain development of offspring, potentially leading to hyperactivity, Yale School of Medicine researchers have determined....more

Smartphones Can Aid People with Schizophrenia
March 15th 2012 - 14:21 GMT
Psychiatry is employing smartphone technology as an innovative tool in the assessment and treatment of schizophrenia and other serious mental illness....more

Tesco Accidentally Prices the IPad 3 at Just $78 Per Tablet
March 13th 2012 - 18:49 GMT
A mistake by the UK supermarket, Tesco saw the new Apple iPad 3 offered for just £50 (US$78) ahead of its retail launch later this week....more

Why Mobile Phones Drive Economic Growth in the Developing World
March 13th 2012 - 16:14 GMT
The transformation of the mobile phone from yuppie plaything to a tool that drives economic growth in the developing world is arguably the biggest technology story of the first decade of the 21st century, according to Tom Standage, Digital Editor of The Economist magazine....more

UK to Track IPad Sales As Part of National Inflation Rate Calculator
March 13th 2012 - 09:51 GMT
The UK's Office of National Statistics is to start counting sales of tablet computers - such as Apple's iPad -- in its inflation calculations....more

Pakistan to Install Phone Jammers in Jails
March 13th 2012 - 07:28 GMT
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Department of Home and Tribal Affairs has ordered installation of cell phone jammers in all sensitive provincial prisons to thwart communication between detained militants and their networks,...more

Fake Apple IPhones Seized in China
March 12th 2012 - 11:45 GMT
Chinese law enforcement officials have seized a number of fake Apple iPhone products. However, these were not copies of the smartphone, but gas powered kitchen cookers....more

People Phoning Police to Report Stolen Phones Were Using the Phone They Claimed Was Stolen
March 7th 2012 - 10:11 GMT
Police in London, UK have commented on a number of reports of stolen phones that have been claimed by the public, and then turned out to be false....more

App Turns Tablet into Math Aid for Visually Impaired Students
March 5th 2012 - 17:04 GMT
Kira is one of two visually impaired high school students who are testing a new Android app, one designed to assist students like her in mastering algebra, geometry, graphing and other subjects that are particularly hard to comprehend without the aid of normal vision....more

Lebanese Security Arrest Two Landline Employees in Israeli Spy Allegations
March 4th 2012 - 16:39 GMT
Two employees of the Lebanese landline network, Ogero have been arrested and charged with spying for Israel....more

Autocorrect Mistake Leads to School Being Locked-Down
March 2nd 2012 - 11:52 GMT
Smartphones predictive text services sometimes struggle with the slang speak used by some of today's younger persons - and an attempt to autocorrect a misspelt word resulted in a school being closed due to fears of a lone gunman roaming the corridors....more

Car Spotted with "I Love Nokia" As a Number Plate
March 2nd 2012 - 11:00 GMT
Apple's fanboy culture is well known, but it seems that at least one employee at Nokia is sufficiently proud of his work to invest in a personalised number plate for his car....more

Airspan Supplies Communications System for Heathrow Airport's Driverless Passenger Pods
February 29th 2012 - 09:53 GMT
Airspan Networks says that it has provided the wireless network that controls a fleet of driverless "pods" used by Heathrow Airport to transfer passengers to a distant car park....more

Study: Brain Makes Call on Which Ear is Used for Cell Phone
February 21st 2012 - 17:21 GMT
A new study found a strong correlation between brain dominance and the ear used to listen to a cell phone, with more than 70 percent of participants holding their cell phone up to the ear on the same side as their dominant hand....more