While Microsoft has garnered headlines recently with its plan to introduce an iPod competitor, cell phone companies have also been trying to knock Apple’s iconic music player from its perch.
Source: biz.yahoo.com

Cell Phone Reception Hack 
New Breeze writes “Has this ever happened to you? Just when you need to make a phone call, the bars of reception are scant to none. But Graeme, who writes a blog called ‘Earth: Mostly Harmless,’ gives us hope. Succeeding where most would quit, he chronicled his ingenuity in a post titled ‘How I got mobile phone reception where there was no signal.’”
Source: rss.slashdot.org

Cleartel Communications said it has agreed to buy Supra Telecom and will position the telecommunications combination as “Florida’s Telephone Company.”

Norway’s Telenor wins auction for Serbia’s biggest mobile firm 
A Telenor logo. The Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor has won an auction for Serbia’s biggest mobile operator Mobi 63 with a bid of 1.513 billion euros (1.93 billion dollars).

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom is to end its price controls on line rental and phone calls at BT after 22 years.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Scientists report seas contain more microorganisms than thought 
The world’s oceans contain many more types of microorganisms than had been thought, scientists report.The number of different kinds of bacteria in the oceans could eclipse 5 to 10 million, according to findings reported in Monday’s online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Source: www.usatoday.com