First their weights and now their cellphones. Come on! No love for the inmates of California's prisons as prison officials have confiscated more inmate cellphones this year than in the previous three years combined. All told, California prison officials have confiscated 4,130 inmate cellphones this year according to an internal prison report which adds that inmates are using the cellphones to commit crimes.

Cell phones have already revolutionized the way people around the world communicate and do business. Thanks to advances being made at UCLA, they are about to do the same thing for medicine.

Major research initiatives are needed immediately to assess the possibility that using cellular phones may lead to an increased risk of brain tumors, according to an editorial in the November issue of the journal Surgical Neurology, published by Elsevier.

For those of you wondering when to get in line for the iPhone 3G, the launch isn't going to be at 6 PM as it was for the iPhone. AT&T has confirmed what was already rumored: a 8 AM launch time on July 11th.

Ever since Google Android was discussed at the 2008 Google Developer Day, and the conceptual structure of the GPhone was announced last year, mobile phone manufacturers, including Motorola, HTC, and Samsung, have been highly interested in manufacturing the GPhone.

Teenagers who excessively use their cell phone are more prone to disrupted sleep, restlessness, stress and fatigue, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Monday at SLEEP 2008, the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS).

After launching a communications revolution, cell phones are talking up a potentially life-saving new role in telemedicine — the use of telecommunications technology to provide medical diagnosis and patient care when doctors and patients are hundreds or thousands of miles apart.