Cellphone and internet adoption may have peaked in the US

There’s no question that technologies like cellphones and internet access have become ubiquitous, but they now appear to be hitting their peak in the US. Pew Research Center’s latest technology study has shown that key categories technological adoption has gone virtually unchanged since the last study in 2016, suggesting they’ve hit saturation points. Much like […]

Indian butcher chops off son’s hand over ‘porn & cellphone addiction’

A butcher in India, angered by his son’s addiction to online pornography, has chopped off his right hand as a brutal punishment for the teenager’s refusal to surrender his smartphone. The barbaric incident unfolded near the city of Hyderabad, where an 18-year-old Mohammad Khalid Qureshi refused to obey repeated warnings from his 45-year-old father, who […]

Oscar Winner Claude Lelouch is the Next Director to Join the Cellphone Movie Revolution

Claude Lelouch is the latest director to turn to smartphones as the next step in cinema. The Oscar-winning French director of the 1967 film A Man and a Woman will shoot a film entirely on his cellphone. But that’s not the only selling point. The Claude Lelouch cellphone movie will be a retelling of the recent […]

Studies suggest cellphone radiation doesn’t threaten humans

No, the debate over the risks of cellphone radiation isn’t over yet. The US National Institutes of Health’s National Toxicology Program has published details of draft studies which suggest that normal cellphone radiation levels aren’t harmful to humans. The research subjected rats to very high levels of RF radiation at 2G and 3G cellular frequencies, […]

This thimble-sized gadget is the world’s smallest fully-functional cellphone

In the race to create better phones with bigger screens and sleeker features, designers have overlooked one important element: The phones of today just aren’t that cute. The Zanco tiny T1 is attempting to restore the potentially untapped market of adorable mobile phones, and it’s entering the field with an important mission: to be the cutest […]

Tech companies urge U.S. Supreme Court to boost cellphone privacy

(Reuters) — More than a dozen high technology companies and the biggest wireless operator in the United States, Verizon Communications Inc, have called on the U.S. Supreme Court to make it harder for government officials to access individuals’ sensitive cellphone data. The companies filed a 44-page brief with the court on Monday night in a […]

Mobile industry loses its bid to stop Berkeley’s cellphone warning law

Enlarge / Berkeley, California, as seen in June 2013. (credit: Daniel Parks) On Friday, a federal appeals court ruled in favor of the City of Berkeley, allowing the city to keep its law that requires radiation warning signs in all cellphone stores within the city limits. The CTIA, the cellphone industry trade group, sued the […]