A Shanghai woman who was using her old cell phone on a plane and refused to turn it off even after being asked to by police has been fined 1500 yuan (US $233).

Used cell phones are now able to feature applications designed with the intention of protecting young children from potential predators.

Google voice, a popular calling service, now lets you call over 150 places in 38 different languages for as little as two cents per minute.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is demanding to know just how and when police departments in New Jersey in the United States are using data from new and old cell phones in order to track down citizens.

Around 33 percent of Americans think their used cell phones are more important than daily tasks, according to a new survey.

The former wife of Beatles legend Paul McCartney, Heather Mills, says that she too was a victim of the illegal used cell phone hacking activity carried out by journalists, which has become an extraordinary scandal in the United Kingdom.

The new state law in Nevada in the United States that bans drivers from using new or old cell phones while operating a motor vehicle does not go into operation for another two months yet, but Henderson Police are getting a jump on the new way of doing things – by banning police officers from doing the same thing as of yesterday.

The idea that the used cell phone will be replacing the wallet for the great majority of consumers has been big news in recent months, with businesses racing against one another in order to be the first to bring out payment systems that will enable customers to carry out transactions with their cell phones and eliminate the need to carry either cash or credit cards on their persons.

The use of new and old cell phones as a way of purchasing consumer products may still be in its infancy, but the minority of consumers who do so are steadily growing in the United States, according to new research.

I was reading an article this morning on Reuters that says that the Android OS now makes up 48 percent of the world wide mobile platform market, with its dominance particularly being felt in the Asia-Pacific.