T-Mobile bans VOIP from its flat-rate data services: "Such high speeds would seem to make the new data card ideal for applications such as Internet telephony and instant messaging. However, the fine print for Web'n'Walk Pro reveals that these are explicitly banned by T-Mobile, and any user caught running the applications risks expulsion from the network."

Well... I can't blame them for it, but it does rather mess them up as an example of operators becoming bit pipes.

Scientists track weather with mobile masts: "Rain, snow, humidity, and other atmospheric conditions affect the strength of electromagnetic signals. Mobile phone operators already collect such data and use the knowledge to boost the network when things turn nasty."

Reminds me of stories about Serbians using mobile phone cells to track stealth bombers...

Remix David Byrne and Brian Eno's latest: "For the first time ever, fans are able to legally remix and share their own personal versions of two songs from David Byrne and Brian Eno’s groundbreaking album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. The interactive forum bush-of-ghosts.com has been developed to celebrate the reissue of the album 25 years after its original release."

WOW.

ICUE in the Telegraph: "A British company called ICUE is hoping to interest book-shy youngsters in reading by encouraging them to download books and read them on their mobiles. Instead of squinting at tiny lines of text on a cramped mobile screen, this service allows readers to flash a single word at a time on the face of the mobile screen using a technique pioneered by the US Air Force to improve memory and help its pilots absorb information more quickly."

I was young and I needed the money: "This explains how I was left to develop a virtual world with a team consisting of three programmers, a level designer and me, when there were six people officially working on the company's single-page WAP site."

The story of a Sex MUD!