Textaphrenia, post-traumatic text disorder, textiety, binge texting are other maladies that await the SMS-addicted, says one Australian researcher.

A team of researchers at MIT's Media Lab has created a simple and inexpensive device that when used with a mobile phone can help diagnose vision problems. Gearlog reports.

The test takes less than two minutes, during which the patient is asked to look through a small device attached to the screen of a mobile phone. The device uses small lenses and pinholes that require the user to focus at different depths.

If any vision problems are discovered while looking at the test patterns, the user adjusts the display until it can be seen clearly. This quickly provides exact measurements, potentially more accurate than the current system, which requires patients to decide which of two separate, serially viewed options is better. ... The NETRA system recently won a prize in te MIT IDEAS competition, and the prototype and supporting research papers will be presented at this summer's SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference.

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The largest study of its kind has found that pregnant women who live near a cellphone mast do not run a higher risk of having a child who develops leukaemia or other cancer.

According to a TNS technology report, Kenyans are now turning to mobile phones as their central entertainment platform, reports AllVoices.

The report states that the demand for music, social video like YouTube and maps is high among the Kenyan consumers.

The trend of turning mobile phones into entertainment platform is not only taking place in Kenya.

... Kenyans spend 38 of their time listening to radio through phones compared to 25 per cent spend by the African population and 23 per cent by the global market.

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