Qwest to end cell phone service on Oct. 31

Qwest Communications International Inc. said Thursday it will be ending its cell phone service on Oct. 31.

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LSU fans seemingly have Florida's number

Looks like LSU fans have Florida's number — again.

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Volunteer efforts step up in the Philippines

Filipinos measure floods by how high it goes up your body. My room was almost knee-deep in water. A FirstPerson account by Mina V. Esguerra.

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Oops! Mizzou sells phones without wiping memory

Mike Bellman got more than he bargained for when he purchased a box of old cell phones from the University of Missouri athletics department.

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OLED phone screens are bright addition

OLEDs provide a sharper, brighter display than the color LCDs in common use today on cell phones. But  OLED displays may not be common in handsets any time soon.

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Dogs sniff out inmates' illegal cell phones in NJ

As Congress considers whether to allow state prisons to install cell phone jamming devices, New Jersey is grappling with ways to stop inmates from running criminal enterprises from behind bars.

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NEC, Casio, Hitachi to merge handset businesses

Japanese electronics makers NEC Corp., Casio Computer Co. and Hitachi said Monday they will combine their mobile phone handset-manufacturing operations by April next year in a bid to boost their competitiveness at home and abroad.

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Motorola, in need of hit, shows off Android phone

Struggling phone maker Motorola unveiled its first device using Google's Android system Thursday, banking on it to power features that will attract consumers looking to use their phones to connect with friends, family and colleagues.

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Speech-to-text the new touch for cell phones?

"DWD" — driving while distracted — by text messages, e-mails and phone calls is epidemic.  Speech recognition software may play a role in reducing — but not solving — the problem.

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Review: Camera phones that let you snap and gab

Pretty much any cell phone you'd buy today comes with a digital camera, but only a few are good enough to take the place of even a cheap point-and-shoot.

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Want cell service abroad? Try a cheap local phone

To prepare for a trip to Tuscany, Paul Boffa visited a local Verizon store to learn about options for taking his mobile phone with him.

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Verizon offers small carriers fresher handsets

Verizon Wireless is offering small cellular carriers a chance to get new phone models faster.

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Free mobile TV could be reality next year

Testing of free mobile digital TV for cell phones, netbooks and other on-the-go devices is ramping up in the weeks ahead, and the first devices that can provide such broadcasts should be on store shelves by next year, according to the broadcaster-based group behind the effort.

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Some 911 centers can’t keep tabs on cell phones

Donnie and Sharon Leutjen and their 15-year-old granddaughter, Taron Leutjen, were found June 9. They had been shot to death, and their bodies had lain in their home in Cole Camp, Mo., for about two days.

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Dimwitted thieves steal fake cell phones in Mexico

Call it the case of the dead cells — both telephones and the ones in the brain. Employees at a Telefonica Movistar cell-phone store in Morelia, Mexico say they arrived Tuesday morning to find that the store had been broken into.

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FCC to look at exclusive cell phone deals

Regulators will investigate whether exclusive cell phone deals, such as the one that locks the iPhone to AT&T, are good for consumers.

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Greeks to register prepaid cell phones

Greece's prepaid mobile phone users will now have to register their identities in a bid to tackle illegal immigration and other crime, the communications minister said Tuesday.

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IRS, Treasury want cell phone tax repealed

Company-issued cell phones might feel like a tether to the office even in workers' off-hours. The phones also are a taxable fringe benefit, and the Obama administration wants to change that.

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Verizon Wireless to carry Android, Pre phones

Verizon Wireless will introduce phones based on Google Inc.'s Android software "in the near future," its chief executive said Thursday.

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Hello, old cell phone? This is your future calling

Enticed by a BlackBerry? Crazy for an iPhone? I am. But before I ditch my cell phone for something snazzier, I’m taking a moment to consider what the future holds for my old device. Will this outdated cell end up bouncing around the back of a drawer with other obsolete phones? Or will my old cell phone live on my desk as a makeshift paperweight? Perhaps my toddler will bury it in the backyard with a handful of his puzzle pieces and one blue sock. Or maybe it will end up in the trash.

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NKorea allows limited Internet cell phone service

North Korea has begun limited Internet service for mobile phone users, a government Web site reported, months after launching an advanced network in cooperation with an Egyptian telecommunications company.

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Parents turn to cell phones as high-tech rattles

When Annamarie Saarinen needed to soothe her ailing daughter, she used a rattle — downloaded to her iPhone.

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O'Malley won't rule out prison cell phone jamming

Gov. Martin O'Malley said Monday he would consider going against federal law to hold a cell-phone jamming demonstration at a Maryland prison to help stop illegal cell phone use by prison inmates, but he hopes that won't be necessary.

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Verizon offers to cut exclusive time for phones

Verizon Wireless has offered to shorten the period in which it demands exclusive rights to new cell phones from LG and Samsung in an effort to give small rural carriers a better chance to sell up-to-date phones.

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More cell phone users dropping landlines

In a high-tech shift accelerated by the recession, the number of U.S. households opting for only cell phones has for the first time surpassed those that just have traditional landlines.

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Today Verizon responded to AT&T's "There's a Map For That" lawsuit by releasing a slew of new commercials with similar themes and messaging. The battle continues, this time on the infamous Island of Misfit Toys.

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That's right, we said it -- and we're not taking it back. The iPhone may be the greatest handheld surfing device ever to rock the mobile Web, and a fabulous media player to boot.

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Ribbit just announced the launch of Ribbit Mobile. Ribbit Mobile is a cloud-based VoIP telephony service that brings together web-based calling, smart call routing and voicemail transcriptions.

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A federal judge has dismissed the music industry contention that when a cellphone's ringtone begins playing, copyright infringement starts happening since others can hear the song, essentially arguing that a mobile phone is a portable concert hall.

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The "geniuses" at the Apple Store in Vermont have probably run into all sorts of excuses for broken iPhones, but they just didn't believe Kris Rowley. "A bear ate my iPhone," she told them.

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Studies that link cell phone use to cancer and tips for using cell phones safer are discussed in this article.

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T-Mobile's now reporting that personal data stored on Sidekicks has "almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger."

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Are we obsessed with our phones?

As I look around at all the people on their cell phones I wonder if maybe we are becoming obsessed with them. Personally I have never really understood why people walk, drive, eat..etc all while talking on their phones.

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You have probably heard a lot about this whole app craze, but without having actually downloaded an app, you are not sure where to begin. Fear not! You have come to the right place.

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A study by mobile security company SMobile Systems claims smartphones running the Symbian operating system are breeding grounds for spyware, viruses, worms and Trojans. SMobile says most users of the infected Symbian smartphones are unaware of the infections.

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Imagine a world where you wouldn't need to plug in your electronics to get their power or charged and totally replacing the need of batteries. Well that world might be here...

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In my mind, the most recent AT&T failure is completely inexcusable. Its visual voicemail system — which is the only way to be notified of voicemails on the iPhone — has been down for many users for days, if not weeks. And AT&T apparently didn't bother to tell anyone.

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If a Florida State University student needs to reach his English professor, he better have the teacher's cellphone number.

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Penang (Malaysia): Phones are catching up with TVs, and the number of phones being used by 'bottom of the pyramid' households have already outpaced the number of radios and computers in South Asia, researchers have said.

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The days of scrabbling around to find the correct mobile phone charger are to end after a landmark agreement between the leading manufacturers.

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PC World writes that a recent poll finds that 61% of Britons believe that cell phones are becoming too complicated and have too many features. Three-in-four believe cell phones are less reliable now than before.

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A quick round up on what the Digital Britain Report did, and didn't, do in the mobile sphere.

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Texiquette

Thanks to the 21st century there have been new developments in conversation. One of these new developments is texting. No one really talks on the phone anymore. What's the point? You could do so much more during a text conversation then you could on the phone.

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Marty Cooper, the pioneer of mobile telephony, has spent his entire career pushing wireless communications to new heights

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Like Checkpoint Tmobile has been owned for some time. We have everything, their databases, confidental documents, scripts and programs from their servers, financial documents up to 2009.

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When a teenage girl knowingly sends provocative pictures of herself to friends or a boyfriend, is she guilty of child pornography or simply practising self-espression?

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In the face of competition from the likes of Apple, Symbian hopes to run its mobile operating systems on netbooks, e-readers, GPS, and other mobile devices.

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Police investigated four severed fiber optic cables in San Jose Thursday that left tens of thousands of area residents without phone service and prompted the mobilization of Santa Clara County emergency communication systems.

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The worst drivers are.....

I hate driving. I hate it because no matter where I go there is always some fool that thinks it is okay to "cruise" the left lane. Problem is most of the time he/she is refusing to move over to the right lane to allow traffic behind them to pass.

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