Deutsche BA, a smaller German airline, has started a new service that allows flyers to check in via MMS. The mechanism is simple; approximately three hours before a passenger is scheduled for a flight, the airline will send a barcode via MMS to the passengers cell phone. Once the passenger arrives at the [...]

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According to Moscow based Kaspersky Labs, a new Trojan horse that is able to infect almost any mobile phone or PDA is in the wild. The Trojan called “RedBrowser” targets traditional mobile phones running Java as well as the newer generation of SmartPhones.
The Trojan dupes users by offering free Internet browsing, but instead sends [...]

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A research group, Mobile Antivirus Researchers Association (MARA), has found the first mobile phone to PC virus. Thankfully, it appears that the virus was sent directly to them instead of being found in the wild.
The virus included the following message, left apparently for the research staff to find, stating “This is proof-of-concept code for [...]

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Cell phones often get the rap as being facilitators of bad manners in public, but the San Jose Museum of Art has the novel idea of getting it’s patrons to listen instead of talk.
During a current exibit, “Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement,” the museum may have become the first to offer tours to the [...]

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Cornice’s is making two notable announcements at 3GSM:

The Cornice Dragon Series Micro Hard Drive will be launching in 8- and 10-gigabyte capacities.
Cornice Hard Drives will be inside the Samsung i300 Mobile Smartphone

[via Cornice]

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Today at the DEMO 06 conference in Phoenix, AZ new startup called Sharpcast is promising to seamlessly connect your computer, cell phone, and web photo albums together. Sharpcast promises “instantaneous backup of mobile phone pictures, speedy catalog recovery and other completely worry-free photo features”.
From the Sharpcast Web Site:

Access your photos on your phone and [...]

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PC Pro thinks the next big thing in mobile phones is better text input. T9 is good, but it is going to get some competition. Look for a MobileTracker piece on this topic in the coming weeks.

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Following up our story on Tuesday, we have found an airline that is going to allow passengers to use non-voice functions of their mobile phones while flying. Don’t celebrate too much though–it’s Scandinavian Airlines. Now, we’re sure than Scandinavian Airlines is a fine operation, but don’t expect the FAA here in the USA to jump [...]

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Yesterday we linked to an obvious prank review of a phone from a decade ago. Here are a few more good April Fool’s jokes in the wireless arena.
PhoneScoop - There is no permanent URL, so hurry to get there. All stories featured on the main page as of now (8PM EST) are pranks. Some [...]

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Clay Shirky is well known around the Internet for his tech essays. His latest is on why 3G (the mobile phone technology that’s supposed to rule the world about a year) will fail. While we can’t agree with everything said, we acknowledge that 3G has some serious work to do in a very short time. [...]

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