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Data mining is a powerful tool. When applied to web traffic data, interesting trends start to emerge. And the latest trend seems to be cellphones. Go figure. Hitwise has come out with the latest web search trends that shows mobile phones as the most searched for consumer electronics across the web.

When babies cry, even the most attentive parents often struggle to figure out why. But a new iPhone application claims to help new moms and dads decipher the wails and howls of their newborn children.

What if some smart aleck figured out a way to hack into Carrier IQ and cause your phone to ignite?

Oriental decor goes beyond the laughing Buddha as a gamut of mythological figures from the Far East storm city stores

With the holidays just around the corner, it's probably time you tried to figure out what to get your friends and family. How about you show them your wish list and they show you theirs?

Looking at satellite imagery on Google Earth can be fun time waster, but figuring out which restaurant or store you're actually looking at can be a bit tricky.

"Opera Retakes Leadership from iPhone in Mobile Browser Market" reads the press release that arrived in my email this week. "Opera is the world's number one mobile browser, overtaking iPhone in May according to data from StatCounter Global Stats" it continues, which certainly peaked my interest. Not least because, according to another set of figures, the Net Applications' Market Share report, the iPhone commands more than 60 percent of the mobile browsing share.

I really hate to admit this, and it's the fault of one of my employees, Joe Wright, a true iPhone lover. Two weeks ago, I went back to the iPhone. Yes, I got a brand spankin' new iPhone 3Gs with 16 GB of storage. I thought about getting the 32GB but figured it would just cause me to buy more music and install more applications.

BARELY a day after telco SingTel released its pricing plans for the much-anticipated iPhone 3G S, would-be customers ran into problems trying to pre-order the phone.