Combating Mobile Phone Addiction

Korea

• 90% of the students age 14 to 19 have mobile phones,
• 38% of that send more than 1,000 text messages per month
• 44% are texting even during lectures

A Programm to fight mobile addiction among teenagers has been launched in South Korea.

They say exessive use of the mobile phone is not good for the health. Nowadays teenages world over are using it daily and are indeed addicted. And waste a lot of their parents money. Would other countries adopt the idea?

Read more on this anti addiction project

the M3

Mobitel has unleashed M3 it’s ‘super-3.5G’ service.

With an investment exceeding USD 200 million in its 2.5G/3.5G networks is now fully fledged to provide Mobitel customers with the best ‘super-3.5G’ not only in Sri Lanka but also in the whole of South Asia.

Equipped with a king size packet core powered by full duplex High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology, has a downlink rate of up to 7.2 Mbps and a uplink rate of up to 1.92 Mbps with the use of High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) technologies respectively.

• For more info catch the latest on press release
• Check out Mobitel broadband M3
• What on earth is HSPA, HSDPA and HSUPA ??

what the i?

Revolutionary PhoneiPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows you to make a call by simply tapping a name or number in your address book, a favourites list or a call log.

Widescreen iPodThe iPhone is a widescreen iPod with touch controls that lets you enjoy your content — including music, audiobooks, videos and TV shows — on a beautiful 3.5-inch display. It allows you to sync the content from the iTunes library on your PC or Mac and access it all with the touch of a finger.

Breakthrough Internet DeviceiPhone features a rich HTML email client and Safari ......................................................read a web page while downloading your email in the background over Wi-Fi or EDGE.

Its got the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse, the most advanced software ever engineered, and true state-of-the-art technology that will change the way you think about a mobile device.

interested what this is about? check the phone magazine here

AJAX the future?

Ben Higginbotham is predicting that the mobile develpment platform of the future would be AJAX.

The software not the cleaner mind you.

Could it be?

check it out on Technology Evangelist