Articles tagged "cell phones"

56% Americans now own smart phones, and they are already compulsively checking them.

David Willey, editor of Runner's World magazine, said it best when he tweeted: "I have been dreading the possibility of this day for many years."

What's that? Oh, just the future calling.

It also has a flashlight and FM radio, and may solidify the apocalyptic secondary phone market.

Hint: It's not you.

Maybe the best way to intentionally exploit missed calls yet.

By tracking the movements of cell phone users in Kenya for nearly one year, between 2008 and 2009, scientists fleshed out travel patterns of a disease that killed about 665,000 people the following year – "mostly in Africa":http://www.who.int/mediace…

Not a lot's been done in response to last week's revelation that police made more than 1.3 million requests for cell phone user information last year. Sure, a lot of newspapers and blogs have written about the announcement by Rep. Ed Markey, a Democr…

If the internet were a shopping mall, it’d be the size of the entire universe, but all it would have in it are three stores, a stripclub and a complaint department. One of the stores would sell pets and pet supplies, while another would house the lar…

It would be nice if we could trust that our cell phone records stayed nice and private in the archives of mobile carriers, but that's simply not the case. On Monday, Congressman Ed Markey released the details of an accounting of law enforcement r…

Cell phones are a pain in the ass. They’re expensive, which means you sign up for contracts that are hard to break. Service providers lie to you. There’s no competition. The unlimited data plan you signed a contract for is dead. Data throttling exist…

It looks like there might be a more efficient way of "hacking":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/5/16/future-sex-i-hacked-my-boyfriend-s-cellphone—2 that ex's cellphone. Athena and Aceso, two data sucking products produced by UK-based "Radio Tactics":…