Though the Apple Store memorials have since given way to long lines for the iPhone 4S, it's still difficult to imagine the technology company without Steve Jobs at its helm. And while much has been written about the gadgets that defined perhaps Jobs' most productive decade, it's tough to isolate one device for its impact above the rest.
But this Sunday marks 10 years since the keynote that announced the iPod—a device that started the chain of successes in an Apple renaissance, and one that completely redefined the experience of listening to music, as well as making it.

The largest study of its kind found no link between long-term use of mobile phones and increased risk of brain tumours, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) reported on Friday.
Danish researchers found no evidence of enhanced risk among more than 350,000 mobile-phone subscribers whose health was monitored over 18 years.
Earlier research on the possible link between cell phone use and cancerous tumours has been inconclusive, partly due to lack of long-term data.

Sunday 23 October 2011 - NINE drivers were caught using mobile phones in north east Fife during a police crackdown.
An increased presence on the area’s roads between September 1 and October 6 led to more than 70 motorists being charged with various offences.
The initiative was in response to concerns raised at community engagement meetings across north east Fife — particularly about people using mobile phones while driving.

A condition dubbed "text neck" is being seen in people who spend time hunched over their mobile phone and tablet computer screens, British chiropractors say.
The say the condition occurs because the joints and tissue in the neck are not meant to flexed for long periods, and hours spent peering down at a screen causes too much stress, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday.
"Imagine sitting on your ankle sideways for 10 minutes," Rachael Lancaster of Freedom Back Clinics in Leeds said. "It would feel stiff and sore when you returned it to its natural position.

By Doug Gross, CNN
Editor's note: This is part of "Our Mobile Society," CNN's weeklong series examining how cell phones and other electronic devices have revolutionized the ways we work, play and communicate.
(CNN) -- It's a mobile society.
Call it good. Call it bad. It just is.
With an estimated 5 billion mobile phone connections in the world, not to mention the emerging number of tablet computers and other on-the-go connectivity gadgets, mobile technology has altered the way we live.

Mobile phone maker Motorola is being sued by Intellectual Ventures over the use of six patents, BBC reports.
The patents are all used in Motorola-produced Android smartphones, the BBC report says. According to the report, Intellectual Ventures is accusing Motorola Mobility of “using its technology to perform file transfers, updates and remote data management and other functions on some of its smartphones.”
The two companies had reportedly been discussing a licensing deal for the patents since January. When no agreement was reached, Intellectual Ventures filed the lawsuit. Intellectual Ventures is reportedly seeking a trial and unspecified damages.

The post-midnight call a few weeks ago arrived on one of our cellphones. They were getting their usual overnight charge in the kitchen while we were one floor up and many dark steps away in the bedroom.
It was the sort of situation Panasonic had in mind when it developed new cordless home phones with a technology it calls Link-to-Cell.
Link-to-Cell uses Bluetooth communication to connect a set of conventional cordless home phones with one or two cellphones. Once the devices are linked, any incoming cellular calls will ring through to one of the Panasonic handsets.

With mobile phone theft the fastest growing crime on our streets, people are reconsidering the value of having insurance to replace their handsets -- if not the annoyance of being without it.
Gardai have said that hundreds of handsets are being swiped by "bicycle thieves" snatching phones from unsuspecting pedestrians.
A recent spike in thefts of iPhones has resulted in a new initiative deployed to stop them, but as long as people like to "walk and talk", it's an on-going problem, especially where fancy iPhone 4 is involved -- the gadget of choice of the thieving population.

LG Mobile has hooked up with stylist Rachel Zoe to launch its newest phone -- dubbed the "Marquee"-- as the company sets its sights on attracting young female consumers.
The crux of the initiative is an LG Mobile-sponsored web series dubbed "Style Rules." The series will feature a competition in which Ms. Zoe tasks style bloggers with creating looks tied to the Android smartphone's brand: "Thin, Light and Bright." The phone product, which Ms. Zoe will use to communicate with the contestants, launches Oct. 2, and beginning today, six webisodes will air on sites across the Alloy Digital Network once a week through November.

Decide.com, the only electronics shopping service that predicts when to buy consumer electronics with no regrets, has expanded its offering to include phones, making it easy for shoppers to stay current on top product price changes and new model releases. Decide also enables shoppers to "follow" the iPhone to get the latest news and rumors on the upcoming iPhone 5 launch from hundreds of sources including CE manufacturers and expert news services like CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, MacRumors and others. Now shoppers can use the power of Decide's price and model prediction technologies plus news aggregation to purchase phones with no regrets.

Internet access is switching from standard wireline use via PCs to mobile access via smartphones. That's the news coming from Framingham tech market research firm IDC, which found in its research that the switch in majority Internet access may take until 2015 to happen.
IDC noted in a report released today that smartphones have begun to outsell simpler feature phones, and that media tablet sales are taking off. IDC predicted that the number of mobile Internet users will grow by a compound annual growth rate of 16.6 percent between 2010 and 2015. As a result, IDC says that the number of people accessing the Internet through PCs in the U.S. will level off, and then start to decline, with Japan and Western Europe following the same trend.