Oh to be a Russian billionaire. Goldstriker have just launched a leather iPhone for $1800. They specialise in making cool things superexclusive by making them superexpensive.

Having an irrational fear of not having your mobile phone and being out of touch - Nomophobia.

Endgadget mobile have picture of the new Blackberry due out in May. It sure is purdy.

Oh dear , Terminal 5 opening has not been good. I had posted previously about their cool baggage handling systems.I bought into the spin and hype.
Willie Walsh , BA CEO has taken personal responsibility for the mess, which will cause 1 in 5 flights to be cancelled. Yesterday , it was only possible to check in with carry on luggage. How could they have got it so wrong ?

According to the nice people at o2 losing your phone contact plays havok with your love life.

Some of the more interesting findings:

1. One in five people had lost out on potential love by not backing up their contacts on their phone and then losing the device.
2. 68% of people admitted not copying their contacts elsewhere
3.44% had permanently lost contact with friends, 40% lost memorable photographs.

RTE have picked up a major deal we have signed in the USA. We will providing protection to 65,000 students and 13,000 staff at Arizona State University , the largest campus in the States. This is a major deal for us and we are in discussions with a number of other campuses for similar deals.

Our beta programme for our software will be going live very soon . A solid date on Monday. The software is a big step forward for our company and it moves us from  pure lost & found to  mobile security. We have found with our customers that whilst protecting against loss was very important protecting against theft was just as critical.

We will be launching with a software product for laptops and certain phones. We will be confirming exactly what we are covering in the next number of days.

As the service is patent pending I am precluded from giving too much details but hopefully it will be worth the wait.

Thanks for the all the requests for invites. Just email paul@yougetitback.com if you would like to get on the list.

Police have said that they want all phones to have GPS systems so they can track victims and suspects. 20% of phones currently have GPS in South Korea.

“The National Police Agency “will consult with pertinent government agencies to pursue the installation of a GPS receiver on all mobile phones,” Song Gang-ho, investigation director of the agency, said in a press conference.”

They are also discussing tagging kids in schools to ensure they can locate them at any time. Docomo have an interesting service which I saw at the ‘07 3gsm that may fit the bill.

China Mobile had to apologise to customers as 200 million ,half of their customer base, received spam texts at once. A loophole was exploited by a number of advertising firms.

A laptop with 20,000 employee records was stolen from a Kraft employee who was travelling on business. The employee was involved in a systems migration project. It is mindboggling that a billion dollar company like Kraft does not have procedures in place to  stop this insanity happening.