At 2 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, television programs and radio shows will be interrupted with a familiar message: “This is a test. This is only a test.” It will be the first time the Federal Emergency Management Agency has attempted to alert the entire nation at once with its Emergency Alert System. While the program hopes to reach as many people as possible as quickly as possible, two means of communication are still missing from the system: the Internet and mobile phones. Read full article > >

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Where’s an Emergency Alert System for the Internet and the phone?

Shares in Asian makers of Android mobile phones rise after Google decides to buy Motorola’s handset business for $12.5bn.

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Google deal boost for phone firms

A leading composer has called for people who use mobile phones during concerts to be fined. How do you stop them?

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How do you stop mobiles in concerts?

For many, young people playing tinny music to each other on public transport on their mobile phones can be intensely irritating. Why do they do it?

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Why do people play music in public through a phone?

The News of the World owner formally apologises in court to the actress Sienna Miller for hacking into several of her mobile phones.

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Paper ‘sorry’ for Miller hacking

A “serious” security breach allowed “huge quantities” of drugs and mobile phones to get into a prison on the Isle of Wight, a report reveals.

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Lapse ‘allowed drugs into prison’

Some of the biggest high street retailers are planning to allow customers to pay for goods via their mobile phones.

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VIDEO: Cash or mobile: What would you pay with?

Plans to allow teachers in England to search pupils for mobile phones and examine their content are called “reckless” by a teaching union.

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Union attacks school phone powers

The cost of calling mobile phones from other networks and landlines is set to fall after regulator Ofcom imposes cuts.

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Mobile firm charges cut by Ofcom

National Lottery operator Camelot is refused permission to allow consumers to use its terminals to pay bills or top up mobile phones.

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Lottery bill-paying move blocked

A study by the National Institutes of Health in the US suggests that mobile phones could have an effect on the brain.

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Mobiles phones ‘affect the brain’

Prison authorities in Colombia say they are holding a girl who was caught trying to smuggle 74 mobile phones into a jail in the city of Medellin.

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Eleven-year-old smuggles mobiles into Colombian jail

The pressure group Liberty says new head teachers’ powers in England to search for mobile phones are more suited to terror investigations.

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Pupil phone searches ‘excessive’

Microsoft shows a full version of Windows running on chips usually found in mobile phones, a move it says will benefit portable gadgets.

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Microsoft uses mobile phone chips

Collapsible speakers pack hi-fi sound in an ultra-portable body Many portable speakers do little more in the way of design modifications than shrink a full-size speaker to a smaller, tinny version. The ultra-portable X-Mini Capsule Speaker , while still tiny, adds an expandable woofer that boasts immense sound for its size. Twisting the speaker opens an accordion-like patented bass enhancement to create even bigger resonance. A Red Dot award-winner, the speakers plug into laptops, mobile phones, gaming devices, and even link to each other for an on-the-go surround sound solution. We’ve been using an X-Mini at CH headquarters and at presentations, and it’s impressed us all with its booming sound. For an all-in-one device, the newest addition to the range, Happy , features a built-in SD/SDHC card slot so that you can play music on it. Rechargable through a USB cable, the super-useful range of five X-Mini speakers sell online for $20-80, depending on type.

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