Easy-to-use mobile phone manufacturer Doro says it’s moving beyond handsets to offer Android and Windows-based applications and services.

‘Doro Experience’, which will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month, combines a simple user interface and a selection of applications.

Mark Bridge writes:

“T’ain’t what you do (it’s the way that you do it)”

So sang Ella Fitzgerald, Bananarama and the Fun Boy Three - although sadly not on the same recording. But that message is no longer being followed by many companies. Instead, the new mantra seems to be the other way round. And I think that’s a good thing.

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group chose the Motorola MOTOACTV fitness device as its overall winner of the 2012 Bluetooth SIG Best of CES Awards last week.

Also announced by the Bluetooth SIG were the three winners of its Now, New and Next categories at the CES show.

The UK Advertising Standards Authority has upheld complaints against a poster for the EM Radiation Research Trust.

The advertisement showed a mobile phone in the front pocket of a pair of jeans, with a warning message that said “Medical experts are warning men not to keep their mobile phones in their pockets as this can have a direct effect on their fertility”.

A new research report from Berg Insight has calculated that around 2.2 million patients worldwide are currently using equipment that includes a home monitoring service with integrated connectivity.

This figure only includes systems with integrated connectivity or monitoring hubs with built-in cellular or fixed-line modems and doesn’t include patients with monitoring devices connected to a separate PC or mobile phone.