Delta has taken the next logical step and introduced the cell phone boarding pass. It had to come.

One of the major expenses of flying used to be, strange though it may appear, paper airline tickets.

First the telephone box disappeared. Then the public telephone started to look ailing. Now the wired phone is disappearing. Depending on your age you do all your communication on your cell phone. Indeed, for many young people if they lose their cellphone they lose their identity.

Many states of the USA are seriously thinking about making all mobile calls while driving illegal. Even those where BlueTooth or similar is used to allow hands-free calls.

Texas Instruments has unveiled new versions of its chips for advanced mobile features, including mini-projector technology it sees as the next big thing after the now ubiquitous cell phone camera.

Melbourne electronics importer Ruslan Kogan announced the Android Agora with plenty of panache. It was to be the first Android off the block.

Netbooks to be used to sell cell phones. This is a most unusual situation but it might just work. And if it does it will change the world of communications.

Samsung’s Emporio Armani Night Effect site is an odd name to have for a mobile phone. If one was of a suspicious mind one would say Emporio Armani had nothing to do with the design. Merely that Samsung showed what they were doing and Emporio Armani — not a known cell phone expert — said ‘that looks cool’, start paying the royalty.

Ryanair will allow cellphones in its planes. There is no such thing at the moment as air cellphone rage. There soon will be.

Cell phone distraction cause at the miniumn 2,600 deaths and 330,000 injuries in the United States every year, according to the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

China has about 650 million subscribers which makes it the largest mobile market in the world and with plenty of room to expand.  Microsoft wants a bit of or most of it and is working in that direction.