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Some Timely Additions

Collecting is now verging on a national epidemic, even among schoolchildren, and the ABC's Collectors show is largely to blame. It has taken collecting out of the exclusive domain of expensive antiques and introduced it to a new generation, those more likely to collect vintage video games than 17th-century clocks. Professor Adrian Franklin is the show's resident academic.

The Silent Treatment

Noisy mobiles, nosy co-workers - it's all too much for Conrad Walters.

Qr Mobiles: Last Thing You Do Is Talk

Have you noticed ads recently in this newspaper and elsewhere containing large blackand- white blocks? They are an initial promotion for a concept that has the potential to change the whole relationship between traditional media, mobile media, and the internet.

War Of The Mobiles

The telcos are fighting for your business on the small screen, writes Lia Timson.

Telstra's $1m Winner Is A Pile Of Poo

TELSTRA is about to invest $1 million in a crap idea for a video game.

Editorial Ugly Twist In Schools

THE growing incidence of school students using mobile phones equipped with video cameras to post vicious playground brawls and illicit teen sex on internet websites will concern all parents.

Anyone Seen My Phone?

Recycle or resell? Steve Dow looks at the fate of unwanted mobiles.

Pre-paid Mobiles Foot The Bill For Majority

AUSTRALIANS might be big spenders with high credit card debts, but when it comes to mobile phone bills they exhibit caution.

Gang Rape On Teen Girl Was Filmed, Police Say

AN alleged gang rape of a 13-year-old girl by five teenage boys was filmed on a video camera, it has been revealed.

Roam On The Range

David Stonehouse tries some Adelaide rock, anarchic video, mobile news and free calls.

Sol's Bright Ideas Dim The Hopes Of Many At Telstra

Wow - "faster delivery of video clips, sport and news to mobiles" ("Telstra's $26b line to the future", November 16). I think that is well worth the jobs of 12,000 fellow Australians. Now they will have something to entertain themselves when they are unemployed (assuming they can afford it). I wonder, though, will Sol turn off the lights when he is the last person left at Telstra?

Sony Bmg Gets Big In Mobiles

Within three years Sony BMG expects a quarter of its annual revenue to come from mobile phone users either listening to songs, watching videos clips or even replacing their ring tone with a song.

Paper-like Screen To Revolutionise Mobiles

SQUINTING to make out the footy scores on the mobile phone's matchbox-size display? No problem, just unfurl the screen.

Itunes Answers A New Calling

Apple and Motorola are bringing music to mobiles, writes Garry Barker.

Landline Going The Way Of The Dodo

More people are shunning the traditional landline home telephone as mobiles consolidate their place in our lives.

Video Dating Comes To The Mobile

RSVP on 3 users can search online profiles, send pictures and videos to online or other mobile users as if they were sitting at their computer. reports David Braue.

Video Game Evolution Puts Competitive Pressure On Cd Music Sales

The stereotype of the teenage video game player is wrong, writes Stephen Dabkowski

Mobiles Take A Whole New Direction

IT sounds like science fiction but within five years many Australians will be carrying mini-televisions in their pockets.

Internet Payphone Takes Fight To Mobiles

Vandalism, out of order and voice-only service will no longer be the standard menu for the dwindling number of payphone users if a trial in Sydney's central business district succeeds.