North Korea decrees that any citizen using a mobile phone during the 100-day mourning period for former leader Kim Jong-il will be severely punished, as government fear of a popular uprising grows. More...

With Hurricane Irene bearing down on the US East Coast, major cell carriers are doing what they can to prepare for possible outages and damage to their networks. More...

The Wall Street Journal are reporting that out of 30 surveyed countries, cell phone users in the U.S, Canada, and Spain have the most expensive mobile phone bills in the world. "People don't give up... More...

Nokia on Thursday released three new cell phone models - Nokia 6700 classic, the Nokia 6303 classic and the Nokia 2700 classic - which are built and designed for ease of functionality and user experience.... More...

Verizon has introduced a new in home personal cell phone tower that connects to your broadband connection so users can get a full signal within a 5000 square foot area. The unit connects... More...

A growing trend for mega-corps is to buy out relative mom and pop companies to expand. Specifically, in the cell phone industry, any company other than Verizon and ATT should fear a buyout. ... More...

Toshiba is close to launching its first commercial direct-methanol fuel-cell device, which promises a faster way to recharge portable electronics products. The company said Monday that the DMFC will be launched during its current financial... More...

Virtual worlds, mobile coupons and bar-code readers on cell phones are the next technology wave that U.S. chain stores must ride if they hope to stay competitive in the fast-changing world of global retail. Retailers,... More...

In order to extend its influence, Al-Qaida's media wing, al-Sahab, announced the availability of eight Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri video messages for cell phones. In a written message introducing the new cell phone... More...

NTT DoCoMo Kansa, Inc will be removing a tower that it installed in a local bus station December 2005. About 40 residents of Kawanishi, Hyogo formed a group to eliminate pollution triggered by electromagnetic... More...

Air France has become the first airline to offer international passengers e-mail and text-messaging service that's based on standard cell phone technology. The catch: It's only available on a single Airbus A318 aircraft in the... More...

With Americans cutting the cord to their land lines, 2007 is likely to be the first calendar year in which U.S. households spend more on cell phone services, industry and government officials say. The most... More...

Worldwide mobile telephone subscriptions reached 3.3 billion -- equivalent to half the global population -- on Thursday, 26 years after the first cellular network was launched, research firm Informa said. Since the first Nordic Mobile... More...

The new Google Maps with MyLocation service allows users without GPS-enabled phones to figure out their location by using nearby cell-phone towers Google launched a location service for mobile users on Wednesday that... More...

Sharp Corporation, the number one maker of solar cells in the world, plans to increase production of thin-film silicon solar cells over the next year at one of its plants located in the Nara Prefecture,... More...

The Walt Disney Company plans to pull the plug on its branded cell phone service by the end of the year saying there were problems getting the phone into large retailers. "We decided that changing... More...

Contrary to previous reports, Sony has stated it is not considering the sale of its Cell chip operations facilities to Toshiba. The Nikkei, a Japanese business daily, first reported of the sale to Toshiba last... More...

China had 487.4 million mobile phone subscribers at the end of April, an increase of 6.7 million over March, China's Ministry of Information Industry said on its Web site. The country added 6.8 million new... More...

Some Japanese cell phone users are photographing their meals and sending the image to nutritionists for analysis and recommendations. Public health insurance offices in Osaka prefecture in western Japan have launched the service on a... More...

Call it Sun Microsystems' answer to One Laptop Per Child. The server and software company hopes to sell a version of Java to phone companies that will bring network access to the world's computers,... More...

Japan's KDDI, the second-biggest mobile phone operator in Japan after NTT DoCoMo, has announced it aims to offer a cellphone service to mainly Japanese customers (according to a spokesman) in the United States using a... More...

Fraser Armstrong, Ph.D. and his research team at Oxford University have managed to develop a revolutionary bio fuel cell which promises clean and renewable energy. The bio fuel cell contains two electrodes that are covered... More...

Bandai Namco is developing arcade games using the Cell chip from Sony's PlayStation 3. The deal between the publisher and format holder will mark the first time that Sony's Cell processor has been used commercially... More...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin announced that his agency would give up looking into whether to approve the use of cell phones on airplanes. An opposite situation is underway in Europe, however, where regulatory... More...

IBM has started production of Cell microprocessors using a new fabrication process, which effectively cuts down the cost of the chips. "The company has begun producing a new, 65nm version of the Cell Broadband Engine... More...

At the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Samsung Electronics unveiled three ultrathin phones as part of the Ultra II family; the U100 is the slimmest one - just 5.9 millimetres thick. All three, the... More...

Sony executive Yutaka Nakagawa has unveiled plans to cut the costs incurred from manufacturing Cell chips for the PlayStation 3 by outsourcing their production. Over the last three years, Sony has invested US$ 3.8 billion... More...

At this week's DEMO 07 conference in Palm Desert, California, Seagate announced a new portable hard drive dubbed DAVE (Digital Audio Video Experience) that connects wirelessly to your mobile phone via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Available... More...

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have created a memory circuit, built by a joint Caltech-UCLA team, the size of a white blood cell with a 160 kilobit capacity. Caltech researchers say the 160,000... More...

NTT DoCoMo and Mitsubishi Electric are planning to replace around 1.3 million batteries manufactured by Sanyo Electric because they may overheat and catch fire, the companies said today. The batteries were manufactured before June 2006... More...

Mass adoption of notebook-use direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) systems may start in 2010-2011, said Kamal Shah, mobility enabling initiative manager of Intel's mobile platforms group, on the sidelines of the Taiwan International Small Fuel... More...

There are two companies who say they have a system that can monitor traffic on roads and highways. They say their systems are based on tracking the signals of cellphones that are inside cars while... More...

Sony have updated their playb3yond website with some very interesting videos, it seems like the Sony marketing machine is starting to go into full swing. On the site are two well constructed videos that look... More...

Thanks Synthetic Girl for posting this in Back Page News. Don't tell your cell phone any secrets. It might not keep them. Second-hand phones purchased over the Internet surrendered credit card numbers and bank account... More...

Taiwan-based startup Antig Technology plans to commercialize its direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) technology later this year. The company will formally announce its first DMFC product in the third quarter. Shipments are planned to start... More...

Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, today announced the launch of the official Web site for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent. Available at http://www.splintercell.com – the only place to get your... More...

Strike Force: Red Cell, the UT2004 mod offshoot from Vision Studios has now secured a publisher for the game. The game will be released sometime in 2006 (though if you look closely 2007 is mentioned... More...

The guys over at Kotaku have obtained three new images from the upcoming Splinter Cell: Double Agent game. These images seem to be cut from a video sequence in the game. Is he smiling in... More...

Cell processor co-developers Sony, Toshiba, and IBM announced yesterday the beginning of a five-year technological alliance, part of which will focus on developing 32nm thick and smaller manufacturing processes which will dominate the computing market... More...

Computer And Video Games sat down with Splinter Cell 4: Double Agent co-producer Julien Gerighty to get some newinformation about the latest game in the series, which introduces newgameplay... More...

Various online Spanish websites have posted scans from the French Playstation 2 magazine of what looks like a very impressive looking Splinter Cell Essentials for the PSP. Information gleaned from these... More...

The National Association of Theater Owners wants the Federal Communications Commission to allow the blocking of cell phone signals in theaters. John Fithian, the president of the trade organization, told the Los Angeles Times theater... More...

Ubisoft today announced the development of the next installment in the Tom Clancy Splinter Cell series currently being titled as "Splinter Cell 4". According to Bluesnews the game is being prepped for release in Spring... More...

Toshiba has announced their development of a compact methanol fuel cell capable of powering a digital music player for up to 60 hours on a single charge. About the same as a pack of gum,... More...

The processor in Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console will support Apple's Mac OS X Tiger operating system according to a recent posting to Sony's UK website. "Sony is expected to offer optional hard... More...

In a recent scientific study conducted by a team of researchers from the Technion, a possible link between microwave radiation, similar to the type found in cellular phones, and different kinds of damage to the... More...

Cheap mobile phones--possibly costing $20 or less--are the goal of a new hardware and software platform currently under development by Philips Electronics. The move is part of an initiative announced this week by the Dutch... More...

Splinter Cell hero Sam Fisher is one objective closer to completing his mission of landing on the Nintendo DS. Ubisoft today announced that Splinter Cell Chaos Theory has shipped to North American retailers and will... More...

The three developers of the Cell processor are preparing to release full chip specifications and software libraries in an effort to rally the open-source community around the device that powers the Sony Playstation 3. With... More...

Ubisoft announces that one new Versus map and two new Co-op multiplayer maps will soon be available on PC and Xbox (via Xbox Live) for owners of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. The Versus... More...