photo credit: Naomi Campbell 2010

Once again Naomi Campbell is in the news for using her cell phone as a weapon. The first week of March, Naomi allegedly hit her limo driver with her cell phone while he was driving her to the set of a movie. (The driver later recanted his story, but under what duress?) Read the rest of this entry »

photo credit: Naomi Campbell

Super model, Naomi Campbell is on the run after assaulting her driver in downtown Manhattan. Apparently she whacked him on the back of the head. This is nothing new for the supermodel. In 2006, Naomi hit her maid with a cell phone and was sentenced to serve two days of anger management classes and five days of community service cleaning up Sanitation offices. In 2008 she was sentenced to 200 hours of community service after she pleaded guilty to being abusive towards a British Airways crew at London’s Heathrow Airport. Read the rest of this entry »

photo credit: Motoblur in action

Motorola is looking to bring its new Motoblur UI to the cable TV world. If your cable TV interface is like most, it is only a step up from DOS. Motorola plans to change the look, feel and use of the cable TV interface with their new Smartphone, Motoblur, already shipping pre-loaded on the new Cliq XT and BackFlip Smartphones. Read the rest of this entry »

photo credit: Cell Phone Personal Assistant

Toshiba is developing a technology that will make your cell phone act like your own personal secretary. The cell phone will notice your behavioral patterns to display things like train schedules, recommended nearby favorite restaurants, and other frequently used sites. It will supposedly learn the ins and outs of your lifestyle, and help by displaying this info to you when prompted. Read the rest of this entry »

photo credit: Cell Phone Causes Sterility

Carrying your cell phone in your pocket is like carrying around a mini-microwave. GQ Magazine posted a story that research shows carrying your cell phone in your pocket may make you sterile. Does this mean we have the answer to overpopulation? Read the rest of this entry »

photo credit: Cuffed While Texting

Authorities in Iowa City, Iowa, reported that a man was arrested for “liberating” a cell phone from a gym and sending unauthorized text messages from the stolen device. In the 18 hours the alleged thief had the phone, he sent 500 text messages. That equates out to sending a text message every 2 minutes. Read the rest of this entry »

photo credit: Cell Phone Cubby

Schools are looking to purchase cell phone signal jammers. The misuse of cell phones during class is causing the teachers to fight back. Not only is it a huge distraction during class while teachers are trying to actually teach, but there is also concern that cheating is more prevalent with the ongoing texting. Read the rest of this entry »

photo credit: Versace Designer Phones

Versace has announced that it will design and release a designer cell phone this spring. Donatella Versace created this new mobile phone with French manufacterurs ModeLabs Group SA. It will reportedly retail for more than Christian Dior’s 2008 cell phone, which costs €3,500, or about $5,000. Read the rest of this entry »

photo credit: ITU Mobile Usage Chart

An unbelievable 2/3 of the planet’s population uses cell phones. At the end of 2009, 4.6 billion people were cell phone subscribers. This is up from 1 billion users in 2002. Even in developing countries the number of cell phone users was up to 50% of the population.

67% of all people on Earth use cell phones!

The ITU (International Telecommunications Union) predicted we would reach 5 billion cell phone subscribers by the end of 2010. (See my blog 5 Billion Cell Phone Subscribers in 2010.) And according to the ITU, the cost for cell phone service has become less expensive, dropping by about 15% globally between 2008 and 2009.

Also included in this report were statistics for Internet usage. While cell phone subscriptions are rising rapidly, Internet access is not rising as rapidly. At the end of 2009, 25.9% of the population had broadband Internet access. Compared to the 67% using cell phones, Internet access isn’t spreading as quickly. The exception to these statistics is China, which accounts for about one third of people in developing countries with Internet Access.

I have said it before. The trend is for people to ditch their land line phones in favor of only having cell phone service. With the dropping prices from the major cell phone service providers, it only makes sense to keep the mobile phones over the stationary land lines. (See my blog New MagicJack for Cell Phones.) And with the growing popularity of Smartphones that provide effective Internet access, I see the numbers of cell phone subscribers rising even more rapidly.

photo credit: 5 Billion Cell Phones

5 billion cell phone subscribers by 2010 was the announcement made last week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the industry’s biggest trade show. We had 4.6 billion in 2009, so the prediction isn’t a wild guess. Read the rest of this entry »