On the road but desperately need to fix something on your web server? Wapsh (original link is dead - links to internet archive) allows you to remotely login into a unix shell via your wap-enabled mobile phone. Of course, it's probably slow as hell. And that's if you can get that far without wap crashing your phone. (Can you tell I don't think much of wap?)
French telecommunications comparison site Comparatel has just launched the Belgian version of their service. You can use it to compare telephony operator costs or internet service providers. Let's hope the opening of the local loop to competition in 2001 pushes prices, other than for international calls, right down.
Watch out for the tyre-slashing vigilante if you phone while you drive in the UK.
Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Cellphone use increases the accident risk of pedestrians too.
Electronic devices: sending a message that you don’t care.
Electronic devices: sending a message that you don't care.
They're deliberately creating TV content as a background to people's phone addiction now.
It’s O.K. to look at your phone all the time, the show seems to say, because Emily does it, too. The episodic plots are too thin to ever be confusing; when you glance back up at the television, chances are that you’ll find tracking shots of the Seine or cobblestoned alleyways, lovely but meaningless.
Do you need a new phone or can you just replace the battery instead?
An interesting deep dive into how your geolocation data gets exfiltrated by advertising networks via apps on your phone and sold to, not only the highest bidder, but basically any data broker, government agency, or other organisation that can afford it.
All of this, of course, despite you setting your phone to not allow these apps to track you.
By the way, the list of apps that do this (Google Docs) contained 2 apps I had installed on my phone. I'd take a look and see what apps you should be removing from yours.
