AMTA Snapshot Edition 111

First Meeting of new Cyber Safety Forum The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, addressed the inaugural meeting of the Government?s Consultative Working Group on Cyber Safety this week. The Minister said the working group was a key initiative of the Rudd Government?s planning on consumer protection and cyber safety.

Catch up with the stars at tomorrow?s MobileMuster world record bid Come along and join the stars at tomorrow?s world record attempt for recycling mobile phones. Neighbours star Erin McNaught will join a host of celebrities, including rugby league player Justin Hodges and Home and Away cast members, Paul O?Brien and Lincoln Lewis, for MobileMuster?s Guinness Word Record attempt.

Recycle your mobile at Going Green Expo and get $3 off admission Visitors to the Going Green Expo 2008, which will open at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre on World Environment Day, Thursday 5 June, 2008 can help make a real difference to the environment by handing in their old mobile phones for recycling. As part of MobileMuster?s and Landcare Australia?s ?Old Phones, More Trees? campaign, a native Australian tree will be planted for every mobile phone that is recycled.

Australians list 2.3 million telephone numbers on the Do Not Call Register Australians have listed more than 2.3 million telephone numbers on the Do Not Call Register since its launch one year ago.

Eco-festivals feature MobileMuster as part of ?kicking the CO2 habit? For the next week a number of eco-festivals across Australia promoting World Environment Day and its theme ?CO2 kick the habit? will be encouraging visitors to recycle their old mobile phones as part of MobileMuster and Landcare Australia?s Old Phones More Trees campaign as well as handing our free recycling satchels.

Half the world uses mobile phones, says new ITU report Just under half the world's population now use mobile phones, an International Telecommunications Union report has claimed, as reported by AFP.

Booming emerging markets push worldwide handset sales Research firm Gartner said West European mobile phones sales fell 16.4% in the first-quarter compared with the year-earlier period, the first fall in the region since Gartner began tracking device sales in 2001, Dow Jones reports.

Researchers to examine video games and health Researchers at Cornell University in the United States will study how a mobile phone game rewarding healthy eating and exercise will influence children's behavior. The research is part of a series of studies to see if the proliferation of video games can be used to improve the nation's health.

'Sniff' out acquaintances, wherever they are One of texting's most common messages ? "Where r u?" ? may become a quaint phrase of the past with a new program that lets your friends and associates find out for themselves, AP News reports.