Is it true that one of our greatest inventions, the phone number, is about to face an immediate death in the future? The Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said, Yes. I don’t know how long telephones will be around for.” Will they be around for ten more years? I’ll go even further. It may not even take 5 years for the phone service, as we know ... Full story

Facebook Places is almost here, Facebook officially launched its "Places" location-based product on Wednesday, backed by seeming rivals Foursquare and Gowalla. The Facebook 'Places' officially goes live Thursday, although an iPhone app will go live Wednesday night. The touch.facebook.com site will also go live, for HTML5-enabled mobile browsers. No one knows whether it would extend the service to a desktop version of the site ... Full story

While India is preparing itself to get immersed in 3G mobile telephones, the US Mobile Manufacturer, Motorola, wants to take a step further by testing the next gen telephony, 4G, in India. If this testing comes into effect, then it will the government’s plan to raise Rs 35,000 crore from selling radio frequency for 3G. Full story

3G is an ITU specification for the third generation (analog cellular was the first generation, digital PCS the second) of mobile communications technology. 3G promises increased bandwidth, up to 384 Kbps when a device is stationary or moving at pedestrian speed, 128 Kbps in a car, and 2 Mbps in fixed applications. 3G will work over wireless air interfaces such as GSM, TDMA, and CDMA. ... Full story

The Google Phone rumor has been heating up for the past few days and in what is obviously the climax of this ongoing show, Engadget has managed to scoop up images of the Google Phone in action - possibly at a Google employee's desk. Full story