New Australian Road Rules designed to clarify what constitutes legal hands-free use of mobile while driving have been announced in Victoria this week. AMTA is generally supportive of a national approach to ensure drivers are clear on the rules governing drivers’ use of hands-free mobiles.

The head of the Australian arm of the Interphone project on mobile phone safety has called into question claims by a prominent neurosurgeon that there has been an “exponential rise” in the incidence of brain cancer, particularly among teenagers.

Students from Glen Waverley South Primary School in Victoria were today presented with their prizes for winning the 2009 MobileMuster ‘Old Phones, New Fence Posts’ Schools Recycling Challenge. The school faced more than 400 schools in the competition and collected 97kg of mobile phones and accessories for recycling.

A new cyberbullying episode of Hector’s World™, hosted on the Cybersmart website (www.cybersmart.gov.au) and targeted at Australian children, was launched today by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

At the GSM World Mobile Conference in February 2009, the Rockefeller Foundation, United Nations Foundation and Vodafone Foundation announced an agreement to form the mHealth Alliance to facilitate global innovation and ensure maximum impact in the field of mobile health (mHealth), the United Nations Foundation says.

Monitoring and managing diabetes is challenging in part because many patients cannot manage their conditions on their own without ongoing support from providers. Now, a growing number of physicians are finding that the practical use of an everyday technology—cell phones—can yield improved outcomes for patients with diabetes, MD Options reports.

It's been a feature of the bedside table for the best part of 150 years. But the alarm has sounded for the alarm clock, the UK’s Daily Mail Online reports this week.

Two-thirds of the world’s population uses a mobile phone as global user numbers passed the four billion mark, with continued strong growth in newly industrialised countries – and demand for mobile data booming across Europe, Japan and the US, James Riley writes in ITWire.

Finnish nationals dominated the 10th Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships held Saturday near the Finnish town of Savonlinna.