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A Japanese professor on Wednesday launched what he said was the worlds first web-based psychotherapy sessions available via mobile phone, as the country grapples with a growing problem of depression.

The interactive service offers cognitive therapy sessions that identify a persons level of depression by asking questions about his or her sleeping and eating habits, weight change, and emotional well-being.

Using their mobile phones -- which are also widely substituted in Japan as wallets, train tickets, books, and television -- people can easily access the service.

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The worlds top five cellphone makers launched on Wednesday a common energy rating system for chargers, making it easier for consumers to compare and choose the ones consuming the least energy, Nokia said.

The new rating system is a cellphone industry response to heavy criticism from environmentalists. The industry has become the worlds top consumer electronics business by volume.

Verizon Wireless has fired several employees who improperly accessed Barack Obamas cell phone records, which may have included billing data revealing who the president elect spoke with, and when.

The mobile in question was not the Blackberry that Obama is reluctantly giving up when he moves into the White House, but a plain-vanilla flip phone that had been inactive for several months. Neither e-mails nor the contents of any calls would have been exposed, but the account information may have included the type of list of incoming and outgoing calls, with their times and durations, found on a monthly billing statement.

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The iPhone is emerging as king of the corporate world as global shipments of smartphones reached a new peak. Defying speculation about a global recession, worldwide smartphone shipments climbed to just shy of 40 million units in the third quarter, according to the latest estimates from Canalys. That means smartphones now represent about 13 percent of the total mobile-phone market, up from 11 percent in the second quarter.

Tapping out text messages on a cell phone while driving is dangerous, the American Medical Association agreed on Monday, and supported state legislation to ban it.
The group, which represents about 240,000 U.S. physicians, voted to lend its weight to laws that would make it easier for police to pull over drivers who are doing it.

Forget e-tickets. Going paperless is the next wrinkle in air travel as American Airlines tests mobile boarding passes at OHare International Airport.

Travelers on American can flash a bar code on their cell phone screens to board flights and get through security checkpoints at OHare using new technology rolled out Thursday.

To use the feature, passengers must have an active e-mail address and an Internet-enabled mobile device to which their boarding pass and a 2-D bar code can be sent.

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The Justice Department on Thursday effectively gave Verizon Wireless the go-ahead to buy Alltel Corp. in a $28 billion deal that would create the nations largest wireless carrier.

Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. and Britains Vodafone Group PLC, already has agreed to the governments condition that it sell assets in 22 states.

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Research in Motion is coming online with an application store uniquely its own. On Tuesday, RIM unveiled two distribution initiatives for BlackBerry smartphone applications at its annual developer conference: A new online application store and a new on-device application center that opens up BlackBerrys millions of users to developers vying for an audience.

RIM said it plans to launch the BlackBerry application store in March 2009, giving its users a one-stop shop for compatible applications and a user-friendly way to manage upgrades and purchases.

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The popularity of mobile phones in South Africa is helping to tackle HIV and AIDS in the nation.

Project Masiluleke will send one million free text messages a day to push people to be tested and treated.

Approximately 350,000 people die of AIDS related diseases in the country every year.

Trials of the system showed that calls to counselors at the National AIDS helpline in Johannesburg increased by 200% when messages were broadcast.

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Taliban insurgents said Tuesday they had told mobile phone operators to shut down their networks during the day in the Ghazni province, southwest of Kabul, saying signals help track insurgent fighters.

The warning comes on top of a Taliban order earlier this year for phone operators to turn off their networks throughout the country at night.

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