Mobile Phone

LG Electronics finally gives up cellphone business

Lack of product enthusiasm in a stale market during a semiconductor drought finally killed it

Personal Tech05 Apr 2021 | 29

Hey, those warrantless smartphone searches at the US border? Unconstitutional, yeah? Civil-rights warriors ask court to settle this

Latest development in long-running lawsuit over electronic device slurping

Security01 May 2019 | 95

Finally, someone takes a stand against Apple, Samsung for slowing people's phones. Just a few million dollars, tho

Smartmobe-borking updates make Italians see red

Personal Tech24 Oct 2018 | 32

In huge privacy win, US Supreme Court rules warrant needed to slurp folks' location data

A digital era defining decision

Legal22 Jun 2018 | 58

Australians still buy 100,000 feature phones a quarter

Android takes market share crown, but ~5% of buyers don't care for smartphones

Personal Tech28 Aug 2017 | 18

India added 240m phones/year build capacity in just one year

Why hello there, new electronics-making superpower

Legal28 Nov 2016 | 8

This is not a drill: Hackers pop stock Nexus 6P in five minutes

Keen hackers at Mobile Pwn2Own

Security26 Oct 2016 | 23

EyePhones packing Iris-scanning authentication to go mainstream

Analyst says Galaxy Note 7 will fire up the mobile biometrics market

Personal Tech22 Sep 2016 | 18

Irish Olympics' officials digital devices seized in Rio

Phones and laptops taken amid Games' tickets investigation

Legal22 Aug 2016 | 20

Drowning Dalek commands Siri in voice-rec hack attack

Boffins embed barely-audible-to-humans commands inside vids to fool virtual assistants

Security11 Jul 2016 | 40

ZTE Axon 7: A surprise flagship contender

Hands On China's venerable big beast splashes in

Personal Tech04 Jul 2016 | 28

'UnaPhone' promises Android privacy by binning Google Play

Marshmallow-based phone strips out Android's evil bits, devs vet all installed apps

Security03 Jun 2016 | 58

Rats revive phones-and-cancer scares

Study good for a headline, not much else

Science30 May 2016 | 44

29 years of data shows no mobile phone brain cancer link

Steep increase in phone use produces 'no increase in brain cancer incidence'

Science06 May 2016 | 50

AMC sobers up, apologizes for silly cinema texting plan

Company accepts that terribly bad idea shouldn't be implemented

Legal15 Apr 2016 | 38

Triple-murderer prisoner keeps mobile phone in his butt for a week

Corrections Minister won't ask guards to don gloves and go where he won't to retrieve it

Bootnotes19 Feb 2016 | 91

GCHQ spies quashed this phone encryption because it was too good against snoopers

MIKEY-IBAKE could alert people to fact they're being monitored

Security21 Jan 2016 | 57

Indonesian government cracking the whip on lazy telcos

Build networks or I'll cancel your license, says minister

Networks21 Jan 2016 | 5

For fsck's SAKKE: GCHQ-built phone voice encryption has massive backdoor – researcher

Well, what did you expect?

Security19 Jan 2016 | 67

Brazilian prisoner nabbed with mobile up rear end

Also packing two chargers. Ouch

Bootnotes14 Oct 2015 | 27

Pocket mobe butt dialing clogs up 911 emergency calls, says Google

Report finds accidental calls a growing nuisance for cops, firefighters and medics

Bootnotes05 Oct 2015 | 31

One in eight mobile calls in India drops out __ ___ middle of your chat

Government tells telcos to spend more on their networks, offers to host cell towers

Legal19 Aug 2015 | 13

Hey, FBI. Wanna track someone by cellphone? Get a proper warrant, says US appeals court

This one is going to the Supreme Court

Legal05 Aug 2015 | 22

Microsoft boffins borrow smartmobe brains to give wearables 9x kick

Redmond wants to work where the grunt is, not where power is puny

Channel15 Jul 2015 | 14

David Beckham fakes bewilderment to flog mobiles to Yanks. Fakes?

Golden Balls doesn't ask about the price. Why would he?

Networks03 Jul 2015 | 29

American Idle: Seacrest keyboard startup Typo goes nowhere after BlackBerry bust-up

Copying the selling point of a dying company? Not ideal

On-Prem01 Jun 2015 | 13

ACLU files new lawsuits in hunt for police 'Stingray' mobe-trackers

Cell-tower-inna-suitcase tech probed by lawyers

Legal11 Mar 2015 | 13

Indian phone buyers decide home is where the heart is

Local hero Micromax takes top sales crown from usual suspects

Channel04 Feb 2015 | 5

Fujitsu slapped down in Land of the FALLING YEN

Homegrown demand wanes for mobes, PCs and network products

Channel30 Jan 2015 |

Microsoft wants LAMP for wireless mobe charger

Kinect to spot phones so lights can be focussed on solar mobes

Personal Tech20 Jan 2015 | 34

Come now, don't be beastly to cellphone giants, Supremes tell America's town halls

If you're going to reject a phone mast, give time for an appeal

Legal16 Jan 2015 | 1

Spavined RadioShack to file for bankruptcy next month – report

May sell off some retail locations to Sprint

On-Prem16 Jan 2015 | 35

Sardine fishing in Kerala: Who benefits from mobile phones?

Worstall on Wednesday How govt rakes in taxes (DON'T hand them more!)

On-Prem07 Jan 2015 | 28

Brit boffins debunk 'magnetic field and cancer' link

Another mobes-kill-you theory bites the dust

Science10 Dec 2014 | 71

UK cops: Give us ONE journo's phone records. Vodafone: Take the WHOLE damn database!

Telco spaffed info on 1,700 staffers, watchdog says

Legal26 Nov 2014 | 37

US Marshals commit DIRTBOX INTRUSION on Americans, says report

Mobe-tracking planes deployed across country

Legal14 Nov 2014 | 45

Why can't a mobile be more like a cordless kettle?

Power without plugs

Networks12 Nov 2014 | 48

Greeks best in the world – at, er, breaking their mobile phones

Blighty's not much better at preserving Jesus Phones either

Personal Tech03 Nov 2014 | 24

Humanity now making about 41 mobes EACH SECOND

327 MEEELLION mobes shipped in Q3, say very tired analysts

Channel30 Oct 2014 | 14

Nokia STORMS back into profit, FREE from phones and Windows

Sales up in all divisions. Having fun, Microsoft?

On-Prem23 Oct 2014 | 12

Will.i.am gets CUFFED as he announces his new wristjob, the PULS

It's got four KILOWATTS of something, apparently

Personal Tech16 Oct 2014 | 57

Nokia's ENORMO factory in India axed after Microsoft-shaped hole appears in order book

But its tax woes will go on

On-Prem07 Oct 2014 | 8

AT&T fires insider for slurping customers' social security numbers, driver licenses and more

To those affected: All your data are belong to ... that guy

Security06 Oct 2014 | 28

One sixth of the ENTIRE PLANET will buy a new smartphone this year

1. Make cheap mobe. 2. ???? 3. WORLD DOMINATION

Personal Tech16 Sep 2014 | 18

New 'Cosmos' browser surfs the net by TXT alone

No data plan? No WiFi? No worries ... except sluggish download speed

Software15 Sep 2014 | 29

In-flight slab-fondling and mobe-stroking in Australia at last

Qantas, Virgin jump through CASA's hoops

Legal26 Aug 2014 | 4

UK fuzz want PINCODES on ALL mobile phones

Exclusive Met Police calls for mandatory passwords on all new mobes

Legal19 Aug 2014 | 83

'Up to two BEEELLION' mobes easily hacked by evil base stations

Black Hat 2014 videos Android, BlackBerry, and Apple fall to OMA-DM flaw – claim

Security08 Aug 2014 | 12

What FTC lawsuit? T-Mobile US touts 10GB, $100 family-of-4 plan

Folks 'could use that money for more important things' says CEO Legere

Networks28 Jul 2014 | 8

GoTenna: How does this 'magic' work?

An ideal product if you believe the Earth is flat

Networks21 Jul 2014 | 47

Banning handheld phone use by drivers had NO effect on accident rate - study

Some new ban obviously in order. Radios? Children?

Personal Tech21 Jul 2014 | 177

Anti-theft mobe KILL SWITCH edges closer to reality in California

Senate greenlights bill to mandate remote-brick features

Legal09 May 2014 | 56

FCC seeks $48K fine from mobile phone-jamming driver

'Alright... we're jammin'... I think the feds gonna sue'

Legal29 Apr 2014 | 52

Chap builds mobe based on Raspberry Pi

$US158 phone WILL burn a hole in your pocket

Personal Tech28 Apr 2014 | 67

Tizen teasing continues as new members join but none pledge devices

What if the Linux Foundation made an operating system and nobody ran it?

Software14 Feb 2014 | 13

Do cops need a warrant to search your phone? US Supreme Court will rule

Two cases will decide whether police can peek at your selfies

Legal17 Jan 2014 | 31