In an official response to a White House online petition, the Obama Administration says that it agrees that consumers should unlock their cell phones "without risking criminal or other penalties." More...
The United States government is looking to propose a federal law that bans the use of cell phones while driving. The hope is to to reduce the number of fatalities caused by distracted driving. More...
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...
According to a new survey, up to a third of children in the United Kingdom own a cellular phone, and parents are not always monitoring their usage of these phones. More...
If you own a mobile phone in the state of California, a proposed state bill would require the police to get a warrant to search the contents of your phone or other devices if it becomes law. More...
Nokia has had a difficult time recently, but it has now surfaced that analysts from Nomura research firm have predicted that Nokia's mobile division will fall behind Apple and Samsung in terms of both revenue... More...
There have been several studies released that suggest that as people use their cell phones more they become dependent on them. Separating them from their cell phone creates anxiety and stress. Michelle Hackman, a teenager... More...
My company recently started using the Blackberry Torch as their standard mobile device. My views on this decision notwithstanding, the users seem to be happy with their shiny new touchscreen toys, and that’s really what... More...
If you are one of the thousands of people who have ever dropped a cell phone into water, you know the gut wrenching feeling that follows after you see it splash down. It's such a... More...
Last year distractions caused 5,474, or 16% of all fatal crashes, in the United States. Out of that total, 995 of those distractions were contributed directly with cell phone use. Cell phones were also responsible... More...
Aside from the world supposedly ending in 2012, that's the same time the exclusive contract between AT&T and Apple is due to end over the iPhone. Apple and AT&T locked in an exclusive contract... More...
We all know someone who has said “I can’t live without my cell phone”. As the little devices become more powerful each year, the simple fact is that they become more integrated into our... More...
Pocketnow.com has released photos, details and even a video of the new upcoming HTC incredible. The leaked screenshots, still branded with a ‘confidential’ text, appear to be the next HTC phone on the market. The... 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Symbian, a maker of operating systems for cell phones, has licensed software from rival Microsoft, in a sign of growing cooperation between the two companies. Symbian, based in London, said it will... More...
Back at No. 1 for the 29th straight week, it's everybody's favorite ringtone. The music market tracker Billboard will begin ranking the customized mobile phone sound snippets beginning next week — another sign that ringtones... More...
Cell phone camera voyeurism will soon be a federal offense if the Video Voyeurism Prevention Act of 2004 continues its nearly unopposed march through Congress. The bill, designed to protect people's privacy from prying camera... More...
Face it playing games on a cell phone hasn't always been that fun. You're stuck with cheesy graphics and the controls are usually really bad. Now some cell phones will offer 3D graphics.... More...
Nvidia announces developer program and software development kit for 3D content on cell phones and other handhelds. Nvidia has today announced that it is looking to bring 3D content to cell phones... More...
Intel Corp. detailed its strategy to capture more of the cellular phone market Wednesday, showing off a new family of chips that support next-generation data networks and are powerful enough to handle video conferencing. ... More...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is planning a cellular telephone that can receive multimedia programming broadcasts via satellite, the company said Thursday. The new phone, which is still in the development stage, is expected to be... More...
A quick-thinking 15-year-old boy used his Sprint cell phone camera to take pictures of a man who allegedly tried to lure him into his car, leading to the man's arrest, police said. ... More...
The communications market is still waiting to see a little daylight. Although a few companies are reporting signs that business is improving, most makers of cell phones and related equipment are showing little... More...
Allies of Sun Microsystems have completed a second version of Java software for cell phones that they hope will fill some of the gaps left by the first, but many expect challenges moving to the... More...
U.K. chip designer ARM Holdings is readying its first silicon designs that will bring console-class 3D graphics to mobile phones. ARM's processor components, or cores, are used in about three-quarters of... More...
eBay and InPhonic, announced Wednesday a new monthly service that among other things, will let people more easily bid on an item using their cell phones. The auction Web site already sends... More...
A Hong Kong company hopes to sell signal jamming technology, previously used by the military to thwart lethal missiles, to block annoying cell phone calls in places such as hospitals, places of worship and restaurants.... More...