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By comedy group The Vacationeers. [via Neatorama]

Spotted on Yanko Design, a baton style mobile phone concept by designer Marc Schömann, using haptic technology to provide physical feedback for making a call. To turn it on…twist a section, to dial a number…twist a bunch of sections, to make an international call…break your wrist! [via Ubergizmo]

Motorola has sued a former executive for allegedly violating a non-compete agreement and threatening to reveal its trade secrets by taking a job with Apple Inc's iPhone division, the cell phone maker said in a lawsuit. [via Reuters] Sony Ericsson has announced they will be letting 2,000 workers go, as they try to regain market share. [via Crunch Gear]

The BBC reports that hundreds of thousands of unsafe chargers for mobile phones, games consoles and music devices could have made their way into the UK. Trading standards officers studying dangerous chargers being imported from China say vast numbers are available on the internet and in shops. Their tests show one brand can overheat or cause electrocution. One of the chargers concerned has the code marking DE62347066. Others have no code and are called Travel Charger."

It’s a federal offense in the U.S. to use someone else’s unsecured wireless network for illicit purposes. It’s a crime in Germany, too – committed by the network owner. The Wall Street Journal reports. "According to the FBI, it isn’t a federal offense to squat, as long as the squatter doesn’t use the connection to do anything illegal. Wi-Fi squatting is against the law in some states. A court in Germany ruled that the owner of an unsecured Wi-Fi network that a squatter used to illegally download rap songs is responsible for the crime – even though he proved that he wasn’t the one who stole the files, TechDirt reports. The German court also said that network owners are responsible for securing their networks — and can be held liable if they don’t."