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Ignoring the health risks of heavy cell phone use invites a cancer epidemic, supporters of a bill requiring manufacturers to put labels on mobile phones and packaging said Tuesday.

We can do nothing and wait for the body count. That is what happened with smoking before warnings on cigarette packs were mandated, David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and Environment at the University of Albany, told Maine lawmakers.

The Health and Human Services Committee held a hearing on a bill that would make Maine the first state to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, especially among children. Opponents dismissed research pointing to the risks and said the bill is more about politics than science.

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Early termination fees for mobile phone contracts are necessary to subsidize the cost of smartphones and customers know what they are getting into, mobile carriers told the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in comments filed this week.

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T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest U.S. wireless carrier, said Thursday it gained 371,000 new customers in the fourth quarter, reversing subscriber losses in the third quarter.

But the new subscribers were mainly low-paying ones who do not sign contracts, and T-Mobile USAs earnings and revenue fell from the same period a year earlier.

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A US group that harnesses mobile phone technology to raise money for charities on Saturday launched text message campaigns to raise money for victims of the powerful quake in Chile.

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Just over a quarter of American adults now read news on their cell phones, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.

The survey results being released by the group Monday offer another sign of how people are changing they way they get information. Technology has been reshaping the news business and the way consumers relate to it for more than a decade. The latest shift is being driven by the exploding popularity of phones that can easily access the Internet.

Amtrak has rolled out wireless Internet access on all 20 of its Acela Express trains between Washington and Boston and in six major stations along the northeast corridor.

The service is free for now, though the railroad says that policy will be reviewed after an introductory period.

The worlds largest mobile phone carriers say they are joining forces to make it easier for software developers to write apps that will run on as many phones as possible.

The Wholesale Applications Community announced Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is an attempt to retake the initiative from phone makers like Apple and Nokia, which have applications stores of their own.

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2010 is shaping up to be a good year for Skype. A few weeks back, spokesperson Peter Parkes confirmed the companys VoIP iPhone App would soon be able to access AT&Ts 3G network. Now it appears Skype could be making its way to Verizons network.

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Few French seniors are embracing mobile phones compared to their counterparts in Sweden where nearly all people older than 65 use the technology, while three in four British and US pensioners own handsets, a study said Tuesday.