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NYC police have arrested a man they believe to be the guy caught on cameraphone exposing himself to a woman on the city’s subway. Behold the power of the cameraphone. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo

Following yesterday’s update on the subway perv, two more examples of criminals being exposed via mobile phones popped up this morning: – A New York man has been able to give police images of the guy that stole his phone after the thief unknowingly uploaded all the photos he took of himself, his girlfriend, and [...]

I posted last Thursday a woman snapping a cameraphone picture of a guy that exposed himself to her on the New York City subway, and how she’d posted it on Flickr and given it to police. The story’s now a dual-meme phenomenon (with citizen journalism, sort of), as the New York Daily News ran the [...]

The idea of mobile sousveillance/coveillance/equiveillance has got legs. Today, Boing Boing links to a Flickr post by a woman that says she snapped a picture of a guy that exposed himself to her on the New York City subway. She later took the photo to police, hoping it would help them catch the guy, but [...]

I spotted a column by Dave Birch in the Guardian from last week (when it looks like Emily posted it on Textually as well) that’s pretty interesting about how mobile phones are being used to facilitate payments in African countries. It’s nothing advanced as Simpay or PayPal for mobiles or anything like that — it’s [...]

We told you last week how O2 UK managed to annoy mobloggers by sending MMS addressed to email addresses as a message with a link to a web page, instead of just sending the picture as an attachment. Alfie Dennen, who very smartly turned us and a bunch of other bloggers on to the issue, [...]

Following the ICE virus scam Russell wrote about, there are a couple more hoaxes making the rounds. The first one says that even if their phone has no signal, people riding the Tube in London can reach emergency services if they dial 112. The hoax says that “ALL phone companies have signed up” for a [...]

"I will refuse to register for an ID card and will donate ¨£10 to a legal defence fund but only if 10000 other people will also make this same pledge." So writes Phil Booth on PledgeBank. As I write, Mr Booth has attracted 10,003 people to his cause and the UK’s nascent anti-ID card movement [...]

It’s always a little frustrating when you have an idea and see someone else run with it. About 6 months ago I was trying to get a large German publisher to implement something similar to Scoopt – with no success – and now they’ve been scooped! Scoopt recognises that these days, the best photographs of [...]

The Firefox browser is evidence of community power in action – a bunch of bright techies get together to launch a better competitor that Microsoft is prepared to offer. And in taking on one of the world’s biggest and aggressive companies, their latest market share is 10.3% – with no marketing budget to speak of. [...]