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Bluetooth Big Brother uses mobiles and laptops to track thousands of Britons Last updated at 12:04pm on 21.07.08    Thousands of people in Bath are unaware their movements may have been tracked through their bluetooth mobiles Thousands of Britons' movements have been covertly tracked by scanners placed in streets, pubs and offices for a technology experiment.  The Cityware project run by the University of Bath has secretly placed scanners around the Somerset city, with the first 10 installed 2006. The scanners pick up bluetooth radio signals transmitted from mobile phones and laptops. In a scene reminiscent of the Will Smith...

Bank employees said a man wearing a ski mask and carrying a pistol was thwarted in an attempt to rob the bank because the doors were locked. The man fled the scene. and he was unable to complete the heist,

Mobile phone use linked to behavioural problems in children By David Thomas Last Updated: 12:06AM BST 19/05/2008 The children of mothers who use mobile phones while pregnant are more likely to develop behavioural problems, new research suggests. A study of more than 13,000 children in Denmark claims to show a link between use of handheld telephones by pregnant women and problems such as hyperactivity in their children. The risks are increased if the child then uses a mobile themselves before the age of seven, according to the report to be published in the journal Epidemiology. The study raises renewed questions...

Archbishop-elect Thomas John Rodi Vatican City, Apr 2, 2008 / 10:08 am (CNA).- Today the Holy Father appointed Bishop Thomas John Rodi of Biloxi, Mississippi as Archbishop of Mobile, Alabama.  The archbishop-elect will also serve as the temporary Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Biloxi until another bishop is appointed.Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Bishop Rodi was ordained a priest in 1978.  He will be installed as archbishop on June 6, 2008.As the archbishop of Mobile, he will succeed Archbishop Oscar Hugh Lipscomb who submitted his resignation to the Vatican after reaching the retirement age of 75 over a...

An Alabama high school student walked into the school gym Thursday morning and shot himself in front of 150 other students, WKRG.com reported. Jajuan Homes, 18, reportedly fired one shot into the ceiling of the gym at Davidson High School in Mobile before turning the revolver on himself as other students watched.

Alabama And Mobile Excited Over $40 Billion Deal By Emily Forrester Last Updated: Feb 29 2008 - 9:49 pm Alabama, Mobile, and Mobile County leaders are excited about the $40 billion tanker project deal that the United States Air Force Awarded to EADS and Northrop Grumman. Here are some of the enthusiastic comments for area and state leaders: * Alabama Governor Bob Riley: "To say this is a great day for Alabama is a monumental understatement. This will go down in history as one of our greatest days." *Mobile Mayor Sam Jones: "In my judgment, the best proposal won. Mobile...

The U.S. Air Force today named Northrop Grumman Corp. and EADS North America to build its next-generation fleet of aerial refueling tankers, spurning a bid from rival Boeing Co. with a decision that could bring an aircraft assembly plant to Mobile. The Air Force made its choice after a fierce competition between the two teams for one of the single largest defense contracts in U.S. history. Estimated at up to $40 billion, the deal includes 179 planes to be delivered over the next 10-15 years. Boeing was considered a heavy favorite due mainly to its political clout and its legacy...

Radiation From Mobile Phones Changes Protein Expression In Living People, Study SuggestsA new study on effects of mobile phone radiation on human skin strengthens the results of the human cell line analyses: living tissue responds to mobile phone radiation. (Credit: iStockphoto/Luis Pedrosa) ScienceDaily (Feb. 25, 2008) — A new study completed by the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) on effects of mobile phone radiation on human skin strengthens the results of the human cell line analyses: living tissue responds to mobile phone radiation. Earlier studies have shown that mobile phone radiation (radiofrequency modulated electromagnetic fields; RF-EMF) alters protein...

Heavy mobile phone use a cancer risk By Lucy Cockcroft Last Updated: 1:09am GMT 18/02/2008 People who use a mobile phone for hours a day are 50 per cent more likely to develop mouth cancer than those who do not talk on them at all, new research has shown. The study also suggests that mobile users who live in rural areas may be at an increased risk of cancer because handsets need to emit more radiation to locate fewer antennas. Studies in recent years have found no link between cancer and mobile phone use Research author Dr. Siegal Sadetzki, a...

India has already built the world's cheapest car – the £1,250 Tata Nano – now the country has unveiled the telecoms equivalent: the £10 "people's phone". The mobile handset, developed by Spice, the Indian telecoms group that is listed in Bombay and worth £1 billion, is angled at the very lowest end of the market. This means the phone has jettisoned all "non-essential" features – such as a screen. "It is just a phone," said Bhupendra Kumar Modi, the Spice chairman, who hopes to sell about 10 million in the next year. Mobile phones priced under about £20 account for...

Mobile no. 1 Friday, February 01, 2008By JEFF AMYBusiness Reporter Mobile County will have the fastest growing economy over the next five years among all 363 American metropolitan areas, according to a new forecast by Moody's Economy.com, growing 34.31 percent from 2007 through 2012. Forbes.com highlighted that projection in a story published Wednesday. The Web site arm of the business magazine credited the $3.7 billion ThyssenKrupp AG steel mill, Austal USA's continued growth in shipbuilding, and the possible Northrop Grumman/EADS airplane assembly plants as among Mobile's strengths. Forbes also cited the city's port and highway access as positives. Such an...

Headaches linked to mobile phones By Lewis Carter Last Updated: 1:02am GMT 21/01/2008 Radiation from mobile phones damages sleep and causes headaches, according to a study by telephone makers. People using a handset before going to bed take longer to reach deeper stages of sleep and spend less time in them, researchers found. This gives their bodies less time to repair wear and tear during the day, and gives them headaches. advertisementThe findings are particularly alarming for children and teenagers, most of whom, surveys suggest, use their phones late at night. The young need plenty of sleep and failure to...

A 33-year-old South Korean quarry worker was found dead with a burning mobile phone stuck to his chest, police and the doctor who examined the man said today. The man, who was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital, had burns on his chest, fractured ribs and internal bleeding, the doctor said. "When he was admitted into the emergency room, the melted mobile phone was stuck to the left side of his shirt," said Kim Hoon, professor at emergency department at Chungbuk National University Hospital, who examined the victim. "I cannot think of any other cause of his death other...

Mobile phone study to establish long-term risks By Nic Fleming Science Correspondent Last Updated: 3:42am BST 08/09/2007 Ministers will launch a multi-million pound, large-scale study next week into long-term health risks of mobile phone use. Some experts warn that children should only make mobile phone calls in emergencies The decision indicates that mobile phone use has not yet been given a clean bill of health even though a Government committee is poised to report that research shows no proven health hazards associated with mobiles. The Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) programme, which has provided funding for 28 studies since...

Mobile phone use and cancer linked By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent Last Updated: 2:11am BST 30/08/2007 Fresh fears over the health hazards linked to using mobile phones have been raised after scientists found that handset radiation could trigger cell division. Mobile phone radiation could trigger cell division A study found that exposure to mobile phone signals for just five minutes stimulated human cells to split in two - a process that occurs naturally when tissue grows or rejuvenates, but that is also central to the development of cancer. Previous research on the safety of mobile use has led to conflicting...

Soldiers Bring Mobile Communications to Battlefield New vehicle gives commanders more choices, faster. By Spc. Ben Hutto3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, Iraq, Aug. 21, 2007 — Staff Sgt. Matthew Hancock looked over the schematics the 82nd Airborne had put together for a mobile tactical operations center and knew that he could build something similar for his battalion. "This is the first time a mechanized Army unit has engineered, built and deployed a vehicle like this. We are proud of what we’ve done. We feel like we have raised the bar for the Army."Staff...

Staff of the “Reader’s Digest” magazine has organized a series of unusual experiments around the world. The journalists “lost” 960 mobile phones in 32 countries and got 654 back, which means that the average world’s honesty level is 68%.

Hidden Dimensions - Apple is Outsmarting the iPhone's Competition Friday, July 13th, 2007 at 1:15 PM - by John Martellaro "You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose." - Benjamin Lipson There are people with good sense, industry experience, and a feel for the wireless market who see the iPhone as just another smartphone. One with limitations and some serious weaknesses in terms of big business. I don't think they're looking deep enough, or with an Apple perspective, or with a view to the future. The Apple iPhone is going to make some serious inroads into our...

Bush defends freedom, even for Jeff Sessions Friday, June 22, 2007By BRIAN LYMAN Capital Bureau President Bush repeated common themes of his presidency at a fundraiser in Mobile on Thursday, saying the United States must stay in Iraq, the government must cut taxes and Republicans like Jeff Sessions must stay in the U.S. Senate. "We are facing ideologues with a vision of how they want the world to look," Bush told a crowd of about 850 people at the Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center. "They can't stand freedom. They can't stand the idea of people expressing their vision in...

WASHINGTON -- A Fort Worth congresswoman wants manufactured and mobile homes to come equipped with weather radios. Congresswoman Kay Granger's proposal comes after this week's deaths of at least six people in flooding in North Texas. The Fort Worth Republican is co-sponsoring legislation requiring that every manufactured home be supplied with a weather radio. The radio would automatically carry emergency broadcasts of the National Weather Service. The requirement would be part of the federal manufactured home construction and safety standards. The bill is named after CJ Martin, a two-year-old boy killed in a 2005 tornado. His mother helped get a...

Daphne teacher chargedPolice say Kathy Chason lied about being raped by an officer Saturday, June 16, 2007NADIA M. TAYLOR Staff Reporter A Daphne High School teacher on a leave of absence was charged Friday with filing a false report after police said she lied about being raped by a Mobile police officer in an effort to reconcile with her ex-husband. Kathy Chason, 48, of Mobile was arrested and taken to Mobile County Metro Jail, police said. Chason told police that she was walking near Interstate 65 and Airport Boulevard late on June 3, headed from a restaurant to the Ramada...

Officials: 9-year-old poisoned his family Thursday, May 17, 2007By SUSAN DAKERStaff Reporter A 9-year-old Irvington boy was charged Wednesday with four counts of third-degree assault for poisoning his stepmother and siblings, according to the Mobile County Sheriff's Office. About 10 a.m. Wednesday, the boy confessed to putting TetraAqua Aquasafe water conditioner in his stepmother's drink on Saturday, sheriff's spokeswoman Kate Johnson said. Sometime this week the 30-year-old stepmother fell ill and is now being treated in the Intensive Care Unit at Mobile Infirmary West, Johnson said. The woman's injuries are not life-threatening, Johnson said. The 9-year-old also admitted to sheriff's...

A jeweller shot in the chest during an armed robbery escaped injury because the bullet hit his mobile phone, a court heard yesterday. Shop manager Darren Prior, 25, was chasing the raider who had looted his shop of diamond rings worth £50,000. Despite the raider firing a "warning shot" past him, Mr Prior continued the pursuit down an alleyway, where the gunman suddenly stopped and turned before firing at him from just 20 feet away. Store manager Darren Prior was shot during an armed robbery, but escaped injury because the bullet hit his mobile phone

Operators deploy equipment to detect VoIP traffic over their networks.Mobile phone operators around the world are investing in equipment to counter what they see as a growing threat to their voice revenues from Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). The moves add impetus to a petition that leading VoIP player Skype lodged with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last month demanding that mobile phone network operators allow their customers access to VoIP services via their mobile phones. The gear in question is Deep Packet Investigation (DPI) equipment, which analyses and identifies data packets as they flow across a carrier’s network....

Mobile phone use 'linked to tumour' By Nic Fleming Last Updated: 2:08am GMT 25/01/2007 Long-term users of mobile phones are significantly more likely to develop a certain type of brain tumour on the side of the head where they hold their handsets, according to new research. The results seem to suggest health risks in people who have regularly used mobiles for over 10 years A large-scale study found that those who had regularly used mobiles for longer than 10 years were almost 40 per cent more likely to develop nervous system tumours called gliomas near to where they hold their...

Ok....I still stare at some guy or lady walking around the store talking to him/herself...even when I know they have this stuck in their ear.. But ...this will really having me looking hard...People walking around WalMart watching TV...Talking to themselves... MicroOptical myvu Personal media viewer for the video iPod® for ideo iPod and iPod photos * viewer with binocular LCD display: * attached in-ear headphones with interchangeable rubber sleeves * up to 6 hours playback with rechargeable battery * AC adapter * 12-volt adapter for car use * Car Use???? MicroOptical myvu Personal media viewer

COMEDY CENTRAL Mobile, a division of Viacom's (NYSE: VIA) MTV Networks, announced today plans for the launch of "South Park Mobile," a newly developed application that enables mobile users to access the network's Emmy Award-winning content from a central hub on their wireless devices...

Mobile's bid to build refueling tankers for the U.S. Air Force is getting a push from U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who urged Pentagon officials in a recent letter to keep questions about a global trade dispute out of the tanker competition. The dispute, pending before the World Trade Organization, concerns the government subsidies that Boeing Co. and Airbus receive to develop commercial aircraft. Some in Congress have said the money Airbus gets in Europe should make its airplanes ineligible for defense contracts in the U.S.

Apple has worked the kinks out of its new cellular handset, according to American Technology Research senior analyst Shaw Wu, and the phone is ready for production. "Handsets are a tricky and competitive business, but an enormous opportunity for Apple," the analyst wrote in a research note obtained by MacNN. "We believe the new Apple handset will be a major player and competitor set to disrupt yet another industry." Wu admits that Apple's "go to market" strategy for the new phone is yet unknown, but is confident the company will time its launch opportunistically and that the new handset is...

WASHINGTON, Sep. 4, 2006 -- Bruce Gorman is driven, literally, in demonstrating his belief that Americans should close ranks against terrorism and never forget the people who were killed during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Bruce Gorman poses inside his 36-foot-long International bus parked on the Pentagon’s north parking lot Sept. 2. Photo by Gerry J. Gilmore  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Gorman retired from the Navy in January as a petty officer first class with 20 years’ service. Since then, the 47-year-old former religious program specialist has poured time, energy and money into a...

Nokia's days as the world's number one mobile phone vendor could be numbered, according to analysts. A new report from Strategy Analytics found that over the last four quarters, Motorola has averaged growth of around 52 percent, while Nokia has managed just 32 percent.

Mobile is setting records for dryness Tuesday, July 18, 2006 By BILL FINCH Environment Editor As severe drought creeps deeper into southwest Alabama, the dryness in Mobile is shattering records. The first 6½ months of 2006 has been the driest such period ever recorded in 165 years of record-keeping in Mobile, according to data from the National Weather Service. Mobile received less than 15 inches through the end of June this year; in 1938, the driest year ever recorded in the city, rainfall through June totaled almost 16 inches. Unless conditions turn around quickly, this drought may soon leave the...

Consumer spending on mobile networking applications -- mobile search, movie downloads and other innovative applications -- surged in the United States and overseas during the just-completed quarter, sources tell UPI's Networking. Leading mobile operators including Cingular Wireless, Vodafone, Orange and Telefonica are seeing sales increases. Smart-phone users, researchers said, are driving the trend. By Gene Koprowski

/begin my translation Exclusive: One of Missiles N. Korea Test-fired is SS-22Its range is extended to 1,000 km, and can carry 500 kg nuclear warhead2006-07-10 04:18:47   Of six missiles N. Korea launched on July 5th, which are suspected to be Nodong and Scud missiles, one could be N. Korean version of SS-22 medium range missile(s.) A high-level N. Korean defector I met told me about what Japanese Defense Agency suspects to be 'new type of Scud' as follows: "N. Korean military prefer Scud to Nodong. Nodong requires a lot of time for injecting (liquid) fuel and charge, making easy to be detected. Starting...

WASHINGTON, July 5, 2006 – The new al Qaeda in Iraq leader is an explosives expert who could opt to increase insurgent attacks using car and truck bombs, a senior U.S. military officer said in Baghdad today. Army Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell, a spokesman for Multinational Force Iraq, told reporters that it would be prudent to expect a rise in attacks with such devices in light of Egyptian Abu Ayyub al-Masri's reputation. Masri's predecessor as the head of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed June 7 during a U.S. aerial bombing raid. Caldwell said security is...

Well on a lark I decided to browse to www.freerepublic.com/ with my new Motorola V323 picture phone. What surprised me initially was how simple it was to browse the site. Logging in was simple, browsing messages was fairly easy. I must say, it's nice to know I can check into FR on the road from time to time. Now, unless you have a more functional device than my little picture phone, I will say that responding to posts or posting new threads might be a bit cumbersome, but not at all impossible. Finally, I would like to commend the FR...

Baxley wants Riley to delay decision on LNG terminal Thursday, June 01, 2006 By SALLIE OWEN Capital Bureau MONTGOMERY -- Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley called on Gov. Bob Riley to delay his decision on a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal for six months, which would be after the November general election. "The governor should not rush to make any decision about the project without complete knowledge of its impact on the marine habitat off the Alabama coast," said Baxley in a statement released Wednesday. The proposed facility would be located south of Dauphin Island. Baxley is a candidate for governor...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has banned 3G mobile phones after a complaint from his wife and her friends about receiving pornography on them. "I have written to the Minister of Telecommunications to delay the use of certain mobile phones," Hun Sen told an assembly of Buddhist monks in Phnom Penh on Friday. "We can wait 10 more years until we have managed to improve morality in society." Hun Sen, a one-eyed former Khmer Rouge soldier who has been in charge for the past 20 years, said his wife had signed a petition asking him to...

CHICAGO, May 12 (UPI) -- This Mother's Day, show mom you really care. Send her a text message -- with love. Experts tell UPI's Wireless World that increasingly, moms are using text messaging and mobile phones to manage their communications with family and friends. Whether a text message -- rather than flowers, a personal visit and quality time -- will suffice is up to your mom and her alone, and any information provided herein is for educational purposes only. This columnist should not be held responsible for any adverse reactions from your respective mothers. "The first annual T9 Texting Outlook...

The Palm OS is about to get into the fast lane. A little more than four months after Palm released the Windows Mobile-based Treo 700w on Verizon Wireless' EV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized) network, it is set to announce a Palm OS version that can connect to EV-DO networks, CNET News.com has learned. The company on Monday will unveil the new model, which is expected to be called the 700p, according to sources familiar with its plans. A Palm representative declined to comment for this story. Palm enthusiast sites have been buzzing about the 700p ever since Palm broke with tradition...

Primary, Carnival on track to clash Mobile officials horrified by bill that would put 2008 presidential primary on Fat Tuesday Wednesday, April 19, 2006 By DAN MURTAUGH Staff Reporter Mobile County officials said it would be a logistical nightmare if Alabama's 2008 presidential primary fell on Fat Tuesday, as a bill just out of the Legislature proposes. "Oh, it's going to be awful," said Mobile County Probate Judge Don Davis. "There's no practical way we can conduct an election on Mardi Gras Day." The bill, which would move Alabama's presidential primary from the first Tuesday in June to the first...

Reality check for the much-hyped Origami PC Ina Fried, for News.com Bill Gates' vision of an ultramobile PC seemed like a winner: a device with all-day battery life, yet small enough to fit in a pocket and much cheaper than a laptop. But as devices begin to roll out a year later, reality still trails Microsoft's ambitions. The first generation of devices, being announced Thursday, are bigger, pricier and more power hungry than the software maker had hoped. Microsoft acknowledges that instead of a mass-market hit riding a wave of prelaunch hype, these devices are likely to appeal only to...

Peace group to march in protest of Iraq warOrganizer says well-known activist Cindy Sheehan has agreed to participate Thursday, March 02, 2006 By GEORGE WERNETH A six-day march to protest the war in Iraq will begin March 14 in Mobile, make stops on the Mississippi coast and end in New Orleans, a spokesman for the local chapter of Veterans for Peace announced Wednesday. The spokesman, Paul Robinson, said that anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, whose son, Casey, a U.S. soldier, was killed in Iraq, has agreed to participate, although he did not know Wednesday where she would join the march. Sheehan...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2006 – The era of the "weekend warrior" is over, the Defense Department's senior civilian in charge of the Guard and Reserve said here today. America's reserve components, consisting of 1.1 million Guard and Reserve members, are restructuring to become more capable of being mobilized like their active-duty brethren, Thomas F. Hall, the assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs, told American Forces Press Service and Pentagon Channel reporters at an interview. This transformation, Hall said, is taking place because of new national security realities that have emerged as the result of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist...

SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 10, 2006 - In furthering its mission to assist military families in need, Operation Homefront has made ten mobile homes available to military families in the Gulfport, Mississippi area. Navy Seabee John Rench will be first among those receiving a home. Having lost everything and exhausting all other government and private sector resources, Rench will accept delivery of his mobile home even as the ruins of his former residence still remain. Also first in line is Seabea Amber Osteen who will move in along with her 4-month-old daughter and husband, who suffers from spina bifida. The...

CHICAGO, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Consumer interest in mobile Internet access continues to climb, and computer industry leaders including Intel Corp. and others are now calling for the creation of a global roaming standard for wireless, experts tell United Press International's Wireless World. Current standards like WiFi and WiMax cannot take wireless to the next level -- international roaming -- because convergence of technologies is creating new demands on networks. By Gene Koprowski

MacOSXRumors notes that Apple has filed for a trademark for the term "Mobile Me": The name appears to be under a number of descriptive categories including "telecommunication services", "portable digital electronic devices and software related thereto", "providing digital music from local or global communications networks" and "computer services". The trademark was filed on January 5th 2006 at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The rumor site suggests that this may have to do with Apple's speculated entry into the mobile phone market, but appears it may have to do with providing iTunes wirelessly over cell phone networks.

Mobile economy big winner after Katrina Wednesday, January 11, 2006 By ANDREA JAMES Business Reporter When talking about the fallout from Hurricane Katrina, economists often lump Alabama with Mississippi and Louisiana, but a new federal report indicates that the states' economic conditions are drastically different. In the third quarter of 2005, Mississippi had the highest unemployment rate in the country at 7.9 percent, followed by Louisiana at 7.6 percent. Alabama's figure was among the nation's lowest -- just under 4 percent. In quarterly job growth, Alabama ranked 29th nationally, while Mississippi and Louisiana experienced net losses and finished among the...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The government is getting out of the way of next-generation mobile broadband services -- a new niche being developed by cell-phone companies -- by preparing to spend $936 million to move its radio communications onto an obscure segment of the spectrum, experts are telling United Press International's Wireless World. "With 90 megahertz of additional spectrum, today's cellular carriers will be tomorrow's next-generation broadband providers," Michael D. Gallagher, assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information, said in a statement. By Gene Koprowski

So, if you’re an over-protective parent, move to Vietnam. If you need some extra attention, go to London. Gentlemen, if you’re concerned about your performance, Chinese women might not be your best bet. Ladies, if you hate taking the pill, you might like a Brazilian. Or a Swede When it comes to unplanned pregnancies, the worry warts come from Hong Kong, Poland, and Serbia Montenegro. And as for who’s getting lucky the most...you can still safely leave it to the French. Everybody is thinking about sex. Last year mobile phone firms spent billions of pounds on networks that will soon...