Category: Mobile Society

While mobile versions of the venerable scavenger hunt have been around for a while, some folks from Microsoft have come up with a cool little mashup application they call Pixie Hunt. It’s a Windows Mobile …

According to the Pew Research centre (via eMarketer) between 7% and 9% of US citizens have now cut the cord and rely solely on the mobile phone, eschewing a landline altogether. This is no longer …

Last August, I gave a speech at Wikimania (a conference for passionate Wikipedists) in which I envisioned a Real World Wikipedia. The idea I was promoting was that we could annotate our real world environment …

Proving that criminals aren‚Äôt the only people to be challenged by mobile technology, a man has paid a record amount for a mobile phone number. He paid $2.75 million for the number 666-6666 in Doha …

Here’s another one in our series of occasional posts about the mobile-challenged criminal fraternity. A Milwaukee man robbed a woman a gun point with two accomplices. They stole her handbag, which Americans call a purse, …