Arriva — the bus company that brought you the number 23 Erskine to Glasgow, among other favourites — is going to start accepting e-tickets flashed from the screen of your mobile phone. Arriva is calling it the m-ticket, and you have to install an app on your mobile phone to get started. Go to arrivabus.co.uk/m-ticket …

Augmented reality (AR), which overlays virtual information on to images of the real world on your phone‘s screen, has mostly been used for useful stuff such as finding the nearest Tube station. Thankfully, someone’s finally come along and used it for setting your house on fire. Firefighter 360 is an AR game for the iPhone that casts you as a …

Ricky Gervais’s latest office isn’t a paper company in Slough… it’s much more nightmarish. PhoneShop, a new comedy with scripts edited by Gervais, takes place in the shiny-suited world of a mobile phone shop. The programme premiered last night on Channel 4 as part of its experimental comedy strand, and the Independent reports the channel is such a fan of …

The Windows Marketplace has rolled up the shutters and opened for business on the Web. You could already buy apps from your Windows Mobile 6.5 phone, but now you can log in and shop till you drop on the Windows Marketplace Web site. To do anything but browse, you have to be signed into the Marketplace from your Windows mobile …

Windows Mobile is the Frankenstein’s monster of mobile phone operating systems  — hideously misshapen, yet powerfully intelligent, it spends its time outrunning the fiery torches of disgruntled users and mobile phone reviewers. It doesn’t have the cachet of the iPhone, the ubiquity of Symbian or the geek chic of Android, and it’s the calling card of suits who wear pleated …

TomTom, the golden child of the iPhone 3GS launch, has whipped more features out of the bag for everyone who shelled out £60 for it. The free update will add lane guidance, which helps you figure out where you should be going on complicated junctions, and text-to-speech, so it can read out street names and points of interest as part …

The first BlackBerry Bold 9000 seduced us with its gorgeous screen and wealth of smart phone features, but it was a beast. RIM’s flagship phone chunked out at 114mm tall and 136g. But the Bold’s been working out and today, RIM launched the Bold 9700 — otherwise known as the Onyx or the Bold 2 — and it’s dropped 14g …

The first iPhone worm, Ikee, was just a bit of fun — unless you have an irrational fear of Rick Astley. But Intego, a Mac security company, reports that a new piece of malware for jailbroken iPhones nicks your personal data. The iPhone hacker tool allows someone to connect to your phone and silently copy emails, contacts, text messages, calendars, …

The HTC HD2 did what we thought couldn’t be done — it made us crave a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone. Now the first WinMo phone with a capacitive touchscreen — and a stunningly huge one, at that — is finally available to buy online from Vodafone. If you want the HD2, the exchange value of your labour power is £35 …

Nokia doesn’t want us to fry our little fingers, so it’s offering a free exchange for 14 million mobile phone chargers that may pop open and zap you. On some chargers, the plastic covers could come loose, exposing its internal gubbins, and potentially shocking you if it’s plugged in and you touch it. Nokia says it doesn’t think anyone’s hair …