Optus Releases New BlackBerry Plans

Optus has just released two Blackberry plans that offer unlimited email from just $9.99.

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Today's fact A truffle is an exotic fungus used in French cooking and is found by specially trained pigs in often obscure locations

Chile And China Head Down The Free Trade Route

CHILE and China have agreed terms for a free trade agreement to remove trade tariffs, according to Chilean Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker.

Hands-free Calls Lose Favour

It could be only a matter of time before phone use by car drivers is outlawed. Hands-free calls are legal but a growing body of evidence suggests these pose as serious a safety risk as calls made on a mobile held by the driver.

Mobile Madness

Hand-held mobile phones in vehicles are outlawed in some states and countries but safety regulators might not have gone far enough, writes CHRISTOPHER JENSEN. Drivers who use a mobile phone are four times as likely to be involved in an injury-inflicting crash, according to a new study conducted in Perth.

Loveable Russell In No-man's Land

YOU know, for all his brawling and temper tantrums, there is something so endearing about Russell Crowe's devotion to his wife that it's hard not to forgive him for allegedly throwing a faulty phone at a New York hotel clerk with "attitude".

Ring My Bell

Form, fashion and function. Mobile phones have it all, which makes it hard to choose.

A True Case Of Life And Death

Film review: CELLULAR **** (M, 94 minutes) On general release from Thursday

Cellular Gold

Yokohoma Metal business manager Saburo Masaoka displays gold ingot bars in his office in Sagamihara, Japan. Yokohama Metal salvaged 50kg of gold and 1000kg of silver from 3.5million disposed cellular phones collected across the country last year.

Cellular Phones Cancer Link Passes Scrutiny

THE CELLULAR Telecommunications Industry Association has moved to allay fears of a link between cellular phones and brain cancer. In an announcement last week, the association said that after reviewing research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation, it has not found evidence that cellular phon

Digital Cellular Technology Offers Many Advantages

MOBILE communications, for most telephone users, means cellular phones. The trouble with cellular telephones is that they rely on base stations, and these have only a short range - typically 30 km at best - and require a considerable investment in the network itself. No base station, no normal

Cellular Phone Thieves Are Getting A Quick Line In

CELLULAR phones are now in active use in most civilised countries of the world. Unknown to many outside of the manufacturing field, however, is that they are not the most secure of devices when it comes to billing. Take a landline phone by comparison. Unless a potential thief can break int