Talk about flying blind. The Irish Times is reporting that an air-traffic controller used SMS text messages to help an instrument-less pilot land safely. When a twin-engined Piper aircraft lost power to all its avionics systems (electrical power, communications and weather radar) in a “serious incident,” the pilot used his mobile phone to call a nearby airport’s [...]

Any parent that's had their tween-to-teenaged child rack up stratospheric wireless bills knows intimately how expensive a few text messages can get. With a 160-character limit on every SMS text message, it can take more than a few text messages to express your thoughts - at 5 to 10 cents per message, those thoughts can [...]

Sure, cellphones are great. If you're reading this, you probably don't need anyone to convince you that all the convergence we're seeing in the mobile phone industry is a good thing. But, does that mean we should use our mobile phones in as many aspects of our lives as possible? Perhaps. According to a recent study [...]

If your compulsive urge to surf the internet, hammer out an email, or tip-tap a text message is starting to interfere with your daily activities, you might be glad (or not) to hear that you're facing addiction straight in the face. Forget that "texter's thumb" of yours, that need for internet/email/text messaging could soon be [...]