JAPAN��S CRISIS

"We��re very worried. We want to search, but there��s no gasoline, electricity, running water or cell phones ��� it feels like you��re dying."

Rod Back On Mobile Blowers

Michael Evans notes the Americans call them cell phones.

Pulse Of A Master Helps Raise The Dead To New Highs

BOOK REVIEWS: Cell By Stephen King; Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished By Rocky Wood with David Rawsthorne and Norma Blackburn

Smugglers Given Phones To Call Contact

Australian police will be asked to help trace calls on phones used in the Bali heroin operation

Bit-players That Can Put The Pep Into Pinot . . . And Much More

THE newest stars of the box office aren't Jamie Foxx or Leonardo DiCaprio - they're those in supporting roles as sneakers, cell phones and fizzy drink cans.

Extra Year For Having 'cell' Phone

A PRISONER caught with a mobile phone and charger in his cell has been sentenced to an extra 12 months in jail just days before he was scheduled for release.

Mobile And Disposable

Cell phones are fast becoming a throwaway accessory.

The Latest Trend: Trend Spotting

Teenagers are watching mini-soaps and reading love stories on their mobile phones, while baby boomers are sucking on Vodka-flavoured ice-creams and making love on quality mattresses.

The More Mobile, The Better Say Gen Y

TEENAGERS are watching soaps and reading love stories over their mobile phones, while baby boomers are sucking on vodka-flavoured ice-creams and making love on high-quality mattresses.

Pm Scolds Rookie Lawmakers

IT was a typical scolding session by a Japanese elder to today's young people: Stop reading comic books and put away the mobile phones when you're supposed to be paying attention.

I Smuggled In Phones Under Duress, Prison Officer Says

A prison officer who was paid $8000 to smuggle contraband including mobile phones into the country's most secure jail said yesterday he did so out of fear of a powerful prisoner. Cale David Urosevic , 26, told the Independent Commission Against Corruption he was not motivated by financial gain but felt threatened, harassed and intimidated by an inmate in Goulburn's Super Max.

Cell Mates

Mobiles have become an essential of teenagers' lives - so much so that they have no qualms about buying ``hot" phones, writes Bettina Arndt.

High-tech Jammers To Beat Cell Phones

JAMMING devices should be installed in top jails in New South Wales to stop convicted criminals communicating by mobile phone with their associates on the outside.

Cell Phone Scandal: Murderers On The Line

A high-level investigation is under way into how two of the state's worst criminals managed to smuggle mobile phones into the country's highest-security prison.

Walkie-talkie Idea Popular

IN a throwback to a time before mobile phones were invented, US wireless telephone companies are hoping a World War II-vintage communications concept will attract new customers.

Desperate Plea From The Sky For Help

There was not even the grace of instant death. Instead, there was time to call from the sky over Virginia to loved ones, fingers pumping cell phones, voices saying quick, final goodbyes.

Ringing In The Changes To `moby' Technology

Portable wireless Net access is not all it's cracked up to be. Mobile phones have become as ubiquitous as mobile timepieces. Indeed, one market study has found that in Finland there are actually more mobile phones than wristwatches. Finland leads the world in mobile phone penetration, but the rest of the world is not far behind.

Hospital Warns Staff: Avoid Mobile Phones

In a landmark health policy directive, Royal North Shore Hospital has advised its staff to avoid using mobile phones to minimise any potential risk from microwaves. The hospital's executive director, Professor Norbert Berends, said the policy was a precaution to help staff concerned about their

Anger As Police Track Mobile Phones

Privacy groups and civil libertarians expressed outrage yesterday that police are effectively monitoring mobile phone users without their knowledge. Police can track suspected criminals with mobile telephones to within several hundred metres by studying signals transmitted from the phones to nea

Cell Phone Thefts On The Rise, Say Police

IN AN attempt to counter the thousands of mobile phones stolen every year, Victoria Police and the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association have teamed up to produce a brochure. Their action is prompted by concerns over the sharp rise in thefts - from 3000 in 1994-5 to more than 12,200 i