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According to a new study American habit to watch television, checking email, playing video games or writing SMS messages before going to bed result in bad sleeping and slack activity the next day.

"Unfortunately, cell phones and computers, which make our lives more productive and enjoyable, may be abused to the point that they contribute to getting less sleep at night leaving millions of Americans functioning poorly the next day," Russell Rosenberg, the vice chairman of the Washington DC-based National Sleep Foundation (NSF), said in a statement.

Cellphones can influence our brain’s activity if stuck to our ear for more than 50 minutes. However, there are no evidences that this may cause any harm so far. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health found the change of the brain’s activity under influence of weak mobile phone’s radiation but they note that the study will likely not settle recurring concerns of a link between cellphones and brain cancer.

A mobile phone for just 99 pennies is being sold by Carphone Warehouse in the UK. The handset Alcatel 0T-209 is ugly and has only basic functions. To get it customers need to buy £10 Virgin Mobile PAYG credit.

The phone will likely by bought only as a back-up or by old frugal people which they carry only when driving - in case they break down.

However, as noted by some observers no child or teenager would thank their parents if an Alcatel OT-209 arrived in the Christmas stocking.
 

On weekends several reports appeared on the Internet that Facebook is developing its own mobile phone. Among others the rumor was reported by Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, who said that Facebook is working on its own mobile phone, which could conceivably compete with Apple's iPhone and Google's Android. He cited "a person who has knowledge of the project", saying two high-level Facebook employees with "deep operating system experience" are working on the project.

As it became known, Nokia decided to shut down its Ovi Files service.

The service lets users access their computer data remotely.

As the company representatives announced, Nokia is discontinuing the Ovi Files service, effective October 1, 2010.

American researchers have released the results of their study where they were looking at how overhearing a cellphone conversation impacts human brain. The research found that the concentration of people who overhear somebody’s conversation is higher when only half of the conversation is heard.

"We have less control to move away our attention from half a conversation (or halfalogue) than when listening to a dialogue," said Lauren Emberson, a co-author of the study that will be published in the journal Psychological Science.

In a move to further spread the role of its services on cellphones Yahoo has closed the deal with Samsung. Samsung and Yahoo have partnered since 2007.

The role of mobile services and software has increased sharply since Apple and Google entered the industry, forcing traditional phone makers like Samsung and Nokia to hurry to build up their offerings.

This week independent researchers Nick DePetrillo and Don Bailey of iSec Partners at the Source Conference in Boston demonstrated the ways to hijack mobile network databases to find the number of most US-based cellphone users and to track virtually any GSM-enabled handset all over the world.

Presenting their products at the Consumer Electronics Show companies like Microvision and rivals such as Texas Instruments Inc and 3M Co were predicting great future for projections from devices as tiny as cellphones.

At present time commercial products with so-called pico projectors are rare but the above companies expect pico to conquer markets in short and long term.