#90 / #09 mobile phone warning mail, a hoax

December 16, 2008 0 comments

After the Ericsson laptop giveaway hoax here is another such email I received yesterday. The text of the email is as follows: Dear all, If you receive a phone call on your Mobile from any person saying that they are checking your mobile line, and you have to press #90 or #09 or any other [...]

Is your mobile bill skyrocketing? Maybe YourBillBuddy can help

June 22, 2007 0 comments

Note: This post may interest only Indian readers. YourBillBuddy.com is a free service that analyses your mobile phone usage pattern and tells you whether your current service plan is the best for you or whether there are plans which suit your usage better. The idea is to help you choose the plan that is the [...]

Where do people carry their mobile phones?

May 8, 2007 1 comment

Nokia has been conducting street surveys between 2003 and 2006 on where people carry their mobile phones and why. Over the period more than 1500 people from over 10 cities have been interviewed. The main purpose of the survey was to find out the relationship between missing calls and where the phone is carried. The [...]

All Mobiles should have anti-theft software

February 19, 2007 3 comments

Recently my wife lost her mobile phone. We knew that the chances of getting it back were remote. Yet, there were a few formalities to be completed. So the whole day I kept calling up the lost phone’s number and as expected I got a “It is switched off” message. In the meantime I also [...]