Category: Mobile Phones

Statistics released by Pew and the American Life Project reveal that 83% of Americans own a cell phone and 42% of those are smartphones.

On Tuesday, Microsoft dashed all hopes that there would ever be a Windows Phone 7 tablet to go with our Windows Phone 7 smartphones. But, it isn’t all bad news, as Windows 8 is around the corner and that will be on tablets.

US senators are demanding an investigation into Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in the wake of the revelations about the hacking of used cell phones by News Corp in the United Kingdom

Almost as many as 500 complaints were made about the used cell phone industry in just the last 12 months in the Chicago area in the United States alone, according to the Chicago version of the Better Business Bureau.

It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was writing about how smartphones were not really catching on in the USA. Obviously, that is changing.

Bans of the use of new and old cell phones while operating a motor vehicle need to be strictly enforced by police or they will offer little value, according to a new study.

The number of drivers in Cheyenne who have been given a citation for using their new or old cell phone while operating a motor vehicle in 2011 is expected to exceed the number in 2010.

There is no point to the new laws banning motorists from driving while on their used cell phones, according to a new study.

Many drivers in Halifax in Canada are blatantly ignoring the law and continuing to use their new and old cell phones while driving a motor vehicle, according to CBC News and police statistics.

The scandal over the hacking of used cell phones belonging to murder victims has brought about the end of the notorious and long running United Kingdom tabloid newspaper The News of the World.