Rupert Murdoch's British news arm faces a rush of fresh compensation claims and could be exposed to criminal prosecution after admitting its role in a long-running phone hacking scandal, lawyers said on Saturday.
Mobile apps can can leach immeasurable amounts of data from personal smartphones and sell them to advertising platforms. The news about data pilfering apps is nothing new, but there is now fresh evidence that large quantum of data are passed on from smartphones to advertisers by some apps.
The jury in the high-profile Raj Rajaratnam insider trading trial heard plenty of racy language on phone taps on Monday, even though the judge had deleted portions as being too risque.
Microsoft says the 11,500 apps on Windows Phone 7 are all quality and the company isn't padding statistics.
The technology would make the company the third major player, behind Google and Apple, said to be entering the mobile payment sphere.
Microsoft is mulling the introduction of Near Field Communications (NFC) technology on its Windows Phone 7 operating system towards the end of the year, according to reports.
IDC says Windows Phone 7 will be in second place by 2015.
The first major update to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7, dubbed ‘NoDo’, only adds a handful of new updates, but if a report from Winrumors is any indication, Microsoft is taking the update very seriously.
China's ZTE Corp <0763.HK> is seeing higher prices for phone parts such as batteries, displays and radio filters due to supply shortages in the aftermath of the Japan earthquake.
Bill Nguyen, the serial entrepreneur who sold his last company to Apple Inc in 2009, is launching a new cellphone-based social network which aims to challenge Facebook's dominance in social communications beyond the personal computer.
U.S. wireless operators will have to pay higher subsidies for cellphones as they come with more features, according to Dan Hesse Chief Executive of Sprint Nextel.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has called for expanding the spectrum available to wireless communications companies, in order to support the growth of mobile data services.
U.S. wireless operators will have to pay higher subsidies for cellphones as they come with more features, according to Dan Hesse Chief Executive of Sprint Nextel.
Security researchers have found that hackers can open doors remotely with a typical Android smartphone.
Eager buyers formed huge lines last week for a chance to buy Apple's iPad 2 before it sold out.
Oppenheimer lowered its profit forecast on phone giant Nokia as the company is seeing greater than market seasonal weakness in demand in the first quarter of 2011.
The postal services of Denmark and Sweden plan to let people mailing letters pay using text messages from mobile phones.
A week after updates rendered certain Window's Phone 7 devices inoperable, Microsoft has resumed updates.
Citing Connection and storage factors, Microsoft says that a small minority of phones were affected.
The first update for Microsoft Windows Phone 7 has rendered certain phone models to become inoperable.
A new study has found that cell phone use can have high measurable effects on brain activity, confirming fears that the long-term use of mobile phones can cause serious health hazards.
A new mobile phone now developed in Singapore comes with a mini electrocardiogram that also reads your pulse when a receptor is pressed with your fingers and if it is severe an ambulance may well be on the way.
