Cell Phones News

Vodacom, South Africa's largest wireless operator, plans to begin operating in three additional countries by the end of 2014.

Softbank Corp. is planning yet another record-breaking sale of retail bonds to Japanese investors, seeking to raise around Y400 billion, The Nikkei reported in its Tuesday morning edition.

For the first time in years, the telecom industry is seeing improved customer satisfaction scores.

A group of ex-Nokia software developers unveiled its first smartphone on Monday, aiming to prove their former employer wrong by making a success of a technology dropped by the Finnish mobile phone maker.

Dead cell phone batteries are one of life's biggest bitches. Most people's mobile phones are glued to them at the hip-or the hand, if you will-and being cut off from communication sucks some major balls.

An 18-year-old science student has made an astonishing breakthrough that will enable mobile phones and other batteries to be charged within seconds rather than the hours it takes today's devices to power back up.

Take a line-by-line look at your cellphone bill - all dozen or so pages. See a $9.99 charge for horoscopes, flirting tips or some such thing that you didn't request? Once only a big problem with landline telephones, cramming - the placement of unauthorized charges on phone bills by outsiders - is gaining a foothold in the mobile-phone marketplace, ... (more)

Users can view what's popular among other browsers nearby, can get website recommendations, and will see recent showcased stories that Xpress Now users have "liked." Nokia began developing Xpress Now after it realized that mobile phone customers in emerging markets have "very narrow browsing patterns." In the company's blog, Nokia Xpress Services ... (more)

The last month was a hard one for me. Besides a bout with incredibly debilitating kidney stones, I also tried to switch cell phones something nearly as stressful as switching jobs, moving, or getting divorced, especially for someone like me who is so completely dependent on this tool.

A federal judge in the US has given law agents permission to track people's mobile phones without a warrant.

Mobile phone service was cut off Thursday in areas of northeast Nigeria as jet fighters streaked through the sky and more soldiers were deployed to fight extremists waging a brutal insurgency.

Crass as in checking email or texts while someone is talking to you. Crass as in surfing the Web during staff meetings.

Customers in the Sandusky, Akron and Canton areas have seen an increased in dropped calls and a loss of Internet connection.

Residents of Piney Orchard will gather Monday for a meeting to discuss a proposed cell tower at the community's elementary school.

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DST yesterday launched "Safe Safar", a mobile phone application developed by young Bruneians that offers safety features to keep drivers focussed while on the road.

Mobile phone contracts provide a relatively easy way to get a shiny new smartphone, however there are also those who already have a capable device on hand that prefer to go the no-contract route.

This is Dr. Martin Cooper , the man generally credited with inventing the cellular telephone.

Rob Ford called the claims "ridiculous" as he addressed a swarm of reporters outside his house in Canada's biggest city.

Presented at the 28th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Hypertension Considered the "silent killer," high blood pressure affects approximately one billion people worldwide, including one in three adults in the United States.