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Mobile Menaces Hang Up On Miss Manners

ARE mobile phones bad for your health?

With This Ringtone I Stay In Touch With Life As I Know It

THE greatest witness to Laura Fitzgerald's long-distance love affair has been the tiny screen of her mobile phone.

Spammers Find Mobile Targets

CONSUMERS are being fooled into paying for the annoying calls generated by telemarketers, as mobile phones become the latest target for spam mail.

Don't Like The Tone Of Politics? Try Another

THE House of Reps' speaker David Hawker is a nice bloke, but hardly a livewire. That's probably why he jazzes himself up from time to time with a mobile ringtone from the land of salsa and margaritas.

Does Your Ringtone Sound A Little Sickly?

Mobile phones are catching and transmitting viruses, writes Lia Timson.

Record Companies Chase The Profit From Mobile Ringtones

Rock bands have long prospered by living - and selling - images of hard living and self-indulgent poses. But sex, drugs and rock'n'roll are no longer enough. The definition of cool for some acts now includes mobile-phone ringtones.

Hark, Herald Mobiles Sing, Throw That Ringtone In The Bin

Prepare to be seriously irritated. This month hundreds of thousands of festive ring tones are expected to be downloaded to mobile phones, with Jingle Bells and Silent Night expected to top the charts.