Category: Mobile Society

Wired’s Jargon Watch has a couple of interesting new words. Smexting has been coined to describe the habit of sending an sms, while having a cigarette outside an office or pub, where people have been …

I noted a little while ago that Russell Beattie is back from his blogging hiatus, and if you haven’t bookmarked his site or subscribed to his feed, you should. He’s got a great post on …

Newfangled devices like mobile phones are often dismissed by old-school cultural elitists with disdain, while more forward-thinking types see them as a way to draw the wider public into the arts. A couple stories have …

Last week, Nokia announced several new handsets for emerging markets. At first glance, they look like what you’d expect: basic devices without the flashy features of the company’s high-end handsets. However, a couple of the …

This story’s been kicking around for a few days, but it’s worth posting. A new law’s been approved in France that’s aimed at criminalizing happy slapping — the disgusting practice of filming assaults (generally with …