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Christian mobile content provider, Unity In Values, announced the launch of The Mobile Word Video Community, the first user-generated mobile video service targeted at Christian youth. Available on The Mobile Word, the application gives consumers the opportunity to use technology to stay in touch with the
community and share their spiritual values. To kick start the application, Unity In Values has launched an initiative to collect video prayers for the troops, with the goal of reaching one million video prayers by the end of June.

The Million Prayers for the Troops initiative allows Christian youth to express their support for friends and family and other American soldiers in the military. Subscribers from every major U.S. mobile phone carrier can record their inspirational message or prayer on their video capable cell phone and send their video message from their phone to video@mobileword.mobi. Users without video phones can upload prayers from their computers at The Mobile Word website. Upon review, the submitted prayers will be available at the same website and via wireless providers who carry The Mobile Word application.

In addition to the Million Prayers for the Troops, users can submit Christian and other video clips in the music, comedy, entertainment or inspiration category. Registered users of the Mobile World website will be able to view their submissions, as well as rate other content. Unity In Values will review submissions to ensure that each video meets Christian decency standards and award prizes to the best videos in each category. Furthermore, Unity In Values will donate $1000 each month to a charity supporting the troops on behalf of the user who sends the top rated Prayer for the Troops. [via]

Motorists caught using hand-held mobile phones while at the wheel face penalty points on their licence and a higher fine after stricter rules came into force today.

The maximum fixed-penalty fine has doubled to £60 and, for the first time, offenders will get three penalty points added to their licence.

Some drivers have flouted existing rules, introduced in December 2003, banning the use of hand-held mobiles and continued to talk and text while behind the wheel.

Figures from the Department for Transport show that 21 per cent of drivers admitted to breaking the law.

Police said that there have been 77,000 people fined for driving while using their mobile phones. It is hoped that the new measures, under which drivers could be disqualified for incurring too many penalty points, will deter more people.

However, road-safety campaigners said the new punishments do not go far enough and called for the use of hands-free phones to also be banned.

Jools Townsend, of the charity Brake, said: “It is high time the Government took steps to ensure the law is properly enforced, and to extend the ban on using mobile phones while driving to reflect research which shows using a hands-free phone at the wheel can be equally deadly.”
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While some well known manufacturers like to release a large series of products, that they have been saving in order to launch at the Consumer Electronics Show, others - like Motorola - are barely heard of, at least compared to the others.

Although less noticed than the rest, Motorola has announced a new RAZR-like phone with a slider form factor. The Z6 features Motorola’s Linux and Java-based platform and sports a nice set of features, including a 2 megapixel camera with video recording capabilities, support for Windows Media Player 11 as well as the integrated music player and WMA, MP3, AAC, AAC+, AAC+ enhanced, AMR NB, WAV and XMF file support.

So that you can store your music, the Motorola Z6 comes with a 64MB internal memory, but if that’s not enough, more space is provided, as always, through a MicroSD card slot that allows up to 2GB memory cards.

The phone's design is very typical for a RAZR-like phone, thus the phone features the same type of keys, as well as the glass and metal mirror-like finish we have gotten used to since the release of the first phone of this type.