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A Tip For Mobile Phones: Recycle

UPPER Hunter Shire Council is urging people to recycle their mobile phones, batteries and other accessories.

Mobile Phone Graveyard Could Be The Source Of A Different Ring

The industry says Australians need to change their attitude to how they dispose of such high-tech equipment as mobile telephones and computer screens as they can damage the environment. Melissa Marino reports.

I Wouldn't Want My Grandchildren Using A Mobile, Says British Expert

The use of mobile phones by children should be curbed because of potential health risks, the chief of a British inquiry into the safety of the phones warned last night. Sir William Stewart, of Scotland's Tayside University, said he would continue to use a mobile but would not recommend that his

Pentium Iii Mobile To Give More Bang For Your Buck

INTEL is revving up for a mobile megablitz, with the first Pentium III notebook chips (running at up to 500MHz) expected in four weeks and a dual-speed 600MHz version within the next six months. The arrival of the Pentium III notebook processors means that Intel will finally be able to offer bot

Mobile Coffee Shop Burnt ... Twice

Vandals have struck at a church group at Yallah by destroying its mobile coffee shop. The double-decker bus owned by the Seventh Day Adventist Church was torched twice on Friday night. Pastor Ross Chadwick said the fire was a blow to the church because it had just started a small congregation

Mobile Batteries Recycled

THE State Government launched a mobile phone battery take-back scheme yesterday that should keep 400,000 batteries out of landfills each year. A trial of the takeback scheme will start in November, with mobile phone owners able to take their spent batteries to mobile phone outlets in Newcastle, S

Extend Mobile Phone Battery Life

Mobile phones have become almost essential to today's busy lifestyle and when it comes to those people previously anchored to their offices by the need to keep in touch with clients, they have added freedom. But mobile phone batteries do break down, mainly because users are unsure about how to tr

How Frank Became King Of Mobile Terminals

As managing director of King Communications Australasia, Mr Frank Eccles exudes confidence in a big way. His company, which specialises in mobile radio, data and satellite communications products and services, has won the 1997 Australia-wide National Business Bulletin Business Star of the Year awa

Power Play In Portable Batteries

The search is on to extend the life of portable batteries to perhaps as much as a week. DAVID HIGGINS reports. NOTEBOOK computers with a week-long battery life may appear as soon as next year. But the mobile computing power drain - which limits battery life to a few hours - will not be solved by

Bendy Batteries

IT'S A mouldable, pliable and bendy battery technology that could soon replace the generation of lithium batteries that power many popular notebooks and mobile phones. It's called lithium polymer, and comprises lithium (the lightest metal on earth) and five flexible layers of "currentcollect

Shaking Up The Mobile Market

THE Panasonic EB-G500 is the first GSM mobile phone on the market to offer "vibration alert" as an option controlled by an ON/OFF button on the phone body. This set-up differs from that on phones from the likes of Motorola and Nokia, where vibration alert is a menu function and a feat

Mobile Gets A Longer Life

A NEW digital phone with a longer battery life has been launched in Europe. Finland-based Nokia has released the 1610, which features a dramatic increase in battery time with up to 200 hours standby, close to three times more than any other mobile phone. Australian consumers can expect to see th

Mobile Phone For Mum

HOW many times have you thought you should give your Mum a call? Well, now you could do it anytime when you give her the Uniden Mobile Phone from The SunHerald Mother's Day competition. Uniden and The Sun-Herald have 10 of the new CP 7500 analogue mobile phones to give away, each valued at $600.