A few days ago I found a small box in my office. Inside a mobile phone packed in sand and nails. A what? A mobile phone inside a plastic bag full of sand and nails. There was a hand written letter: “Dear Andreas, attached is a very tough phone. I’m curious if you can break [...]

In the last eight years, different banks again and again tried to establish banking via mobile phone. Indeed, the only ones interested in it seemed to be the banks themselves. Even in October 2007, the thought of mobile banking made the US-Americans still yawn.
With the beginning of the new year, or maybe even a [...]

German Ministry of Transport Allows Mobile Phone Usage in Planes
One relaxing advantage the plane has had up to now, compared to other means of transport: you couldn’t be unnerved neither by too loud headphones nor by music-like noises from mobile phone speakers of minors. Any gadget just had to stay turned off.
This in the true [...]

Australian study reveals astounding findings
Trouble maker. Gadfly. Money pit. Disturber. Bugger. There are many terms for mobile phones and just as many reproaches behind them. Up to now also academic research has acted on the assumption that the mobile not only creates blessing and security but makes e.g. work intrude into leisure time and [...]