Granted, mobile phones are usually utilized for communication purposes. Recently, however, these gadgets have taken on an entirely new role: that of saving lives when medical practitioners aren't physically around. The key word here is telemedicine. Find out all about it in the full article after the jump.

In life, it helps to have someone who can hold you accountable for your actions. In the case of electronics companies, it seems that Greenpeace is their accountability partner. The organization has recently released the current company rankings in its Greener Electronics Scale. To find out how certain companies fared, get "green-minded" and turn to the full article after the jump.

Legal court battles over patent infringement can be understandably messy, as is the case of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion and Motorola.

Read more about how the two companies are "courting" trouble in the full article, located after the jump.

Someone once explained why he didn't want to keep his mobile phone close to his groin. Now, it seems, a recent study has lent support to the idea that healthy sperm and cell phone use may not mix. More on how your cellular phone relates to male gamete quality after the jump.

THQ Wireless Inc. has recently renewed and expanded its global licensing agreement with Lucasfilm Ltd. in order to produce mobile media products based on the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movie franchises.

THQ Wireless Inc. admitted that the Star Wars lineup of games is currently one of the company's strongest gaming franchises. More on this story after the jump!

This time it's not a delay, but a deadline extension: in order to give people more time to participate in their Give One Get One Program, the One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC), has decided to extend their Give One Get One program up to December 31.

OLPC chairman and founder Nicholas Negroponte explained why OLPC decided to extend the original two-week deadline. Read more about this after the jump.

Mobile media company Player X and online game developer FreezeTag have joined forces to co-launch both a mobile and an online game version of the classic Etch-A-Sketch toy. Player X will be drawing upon its distribution network of more than one hundred fifty global carriers in order to reach a potential audience of 2.5 billion players. As a bonus, Player X and FreezeTag have included other options in the new versions of Etch a Sketch.

Find out what these bonuses are after the jump!

Mary Lou Jepson, Chief Technology Officer for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) non-profit organization, reported that an unforeseen delay in production would spell a shortage in the amount of laptop computers they would be giving away as part of their holiday program. Ms. Jepson said that last minute bugs were responsible for the delay, though she also mentioned that the bugs have already been resolved.

While production of OLPC's XO laptop was originally supposed to have begun last October, production has now been moved to November 12 instead. The result, Ms. Jepson said, is that OLPC's original plan to get laptops to South American kids by December may prove difficult. Nevertheless, Ms. Jepson expressed confidence that OLPC would still be able to produce 100,000 laptops this year, hardly a surprise when they have both Intel and Microsoft backing them up.

Incidentally, One Laptop Per Child is offering a Give 1 Get 1 promo that provides buyers with both a laptop of their own and another one for a poor child overseas. If you're interested in playing Santa to a less fortunate child somewhere, then go to OLPC website as indicated at the bottom of the source article. The OLPC foundation will begin accepting orders starting November 12.