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One of our favorite MH pals, Helen Keegan, agreed to complete the arduous 17-question, erm, questionnaire over at SMS Text News, so go check it out to see what makes her mobile mind tick. (We’re in no way linking to this because of all the nice things she said about us. Honest.)
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Apparently a Japanese macaque monkey at a zoo in Russia isn’t a fan of cameraphones, as it’s taken to grabbing them out of people’s hands (via Picturephoning) when they try to snap pictures of him and his family. He’s already taken a dozen handsets, only some of which have been recovered intact. Could this evolve [...]

Prompted by our visit to yesteryear with the Notificator, I started browsing last night through some of the other images on Modern Mechanix.
How about the very first ringtone dating back to the 1950’s?

And the first video phone from 1956, which became about as popular as person-to-person video calls are today.

In case you thought that Vertu [...]

Via The Daily Irrelevant
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The new Bud ad
If only all advertising was as good as this.

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kfed gets the boot on his sidekick 2 limited edition (Celebrity Gear Watch)
Hey K-Fed.. what’s up dawg? Well, apparently Mr. Spears was caught as off guard as the rest of us with the news that Brit wanted a divorce.. He was filming some reality show when he started texting with Britney on his Sidekick 2 [...]

I’ve been messing around with Net News Wire and its ability to sync up to NewsGator Online, thinking that might be a nice way to read RSS feeds on my mobile device (something I don’t really do anyway, but still). So I get everything synced with a minimum of fuss, eventually located the page where [...]

From The Register – Vodafone outage caused by robbery:
Cable stealing thieves were responsible for a network outage that left some Vodafone UK customers without service for most of yesterday.
A spokeswoman was unable to explain what the cables were for, but confirmed that the theft in north Wales caused the network downtime for most of Sunday.
She [...]

Thanks to an anonymous MobHappy reader for sending this wicked piece of satire from The Onion. Ouch.
Verizon Introduces New Charge-You-At-Whim Plan
NEW YORK—Verizon Communications, Inc. announced a new service package for its wireless and residential customers that would charge them widely varying, but always high, fees every month depending how the communications giant feels at the [...]