Cellphones

More U.S. Customers Reportedly Hanging Up On Phone Contracts

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 05.10.2012

NEW ORLEANS — U.S. consumers have had their fill of expensive, contract-based phone plans. Figures from T-Mobile USA on Thursday, added to earl...

Carriers Join Forces To Fight Cellphone Theft

AP | Posted 04.10.2012

WASHINGTON — Cellphone companies and the government are trying to make it as difficult to use a stolen cellphone as it is to sell a stolen car. ...

Student Suspended For Photographing Napping Teacher

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.27.2012

A 9th-grade student from Mustang Mid-High School in Mustang, Okla. has been suspended -- for taking a snapshot on his phone of a substitute teacher su...

WATCH: Ringtone Halts NY Philharmonic

AP | Posted 03.13.2012

NEW YORK — It's the dreaded sound at any live performance – a ringing cellphone. That's what happened Tuesday night at Lincoln Center's A...

New Year's Eve Flirtexts!

| Debra Goldstein & Olivia Baniuszewic | Posted 12.31.2011

Debra Goldstein and Olivia Baniuszewicz -- flirtexting experts and authors of "Flirtexting: How To Text Your Way To His Heart" -- bring you three pre...

What Teens Do 7 Times Every Waking Hour?

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 12.16.2011

If teens seem to be glued to their cellphones, it's because they're texting about as many times an hour as you might suspect they say "like" -- an ave...

Should Cellphone Use Be Illegal In Cars?

Reuters | Posted 02.12.2012

By John Crawley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. safety investigators called on Tuesday for a nationwide ban on texting and cell phone use w...

Hilarious Real-Life Texts From Parents

Posted 11.23.2011

Unless you're one of the rare few teens left whose parents haven't learned how to text yet, you've experienced first-hand the hilarious things that ca...

Mike Sacks

Democrats Try To Overturn Supreme Court's Anti-Consumer Rulings

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.20.2011

WASHINGTON -- It's not abortion or affirmative action -- or, for that matter, campaign finance -- but a series of recent cases on arbitration has shar...

How To Minimize Cell Phone Health Risks

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 07.31.2011

David Katz, M.D.

Dr. Joel Moskowitz, director of the Center for Family and Community Health a UC Berkeley, answers my questions about the talking we all increasingly do, and offers advice on how best to take stock, and control, of the risks involved.

WATCH: Cheesy 90s Kids Rapping About Phone Manners

Posted 07.25.2011

Tired of people talking on their cellphones in public? Wish that rude customer had known how to politely ask whether you had any boy band CDs in your ...

What To Do If You've Lost Your Phone--And Before You Lose It

The Huffington Post | Thomas Houston | Posted 07.09.2011

A decade ago, losing your Nokia 3210 wasn't a huge deal. Sure, the loss of your text message history, contacts and Snake high score might be a painful...

Dead Phone? New Tech Could Let You Charge It By Yelling

The Huffington Post | Thomas Houston | Posted 07.09.2011

In the future, you could charge your cell phone just by chatting. Researchers at South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University have developed a new technol...

Samsung Unveils Giant New Phone

The Huffington Post | Thomas Houston | Posted 07.05.2011

We're here in New York at Samsung Mobility's press event where AT&T's Jeff Bradley announced the Infuse 4G, notable for its massive 4.5-inch, Super AM...

New BlackBerry Operating System Unveiled--But There's A Catch

The Huffington Post | Thomas Houston | Posted 07.02.2011

This morning, RIM finally unveiled its next generation mobile operating system, BlackBerry OS 7. It's not a giant leap forward, but RIM is detailing a...

Two New BlackBerrys Announced

The Huffington Post | Thomas Houston | Posted 07.02.2011

RIM kicked off its BlackBerry World event in Orlando, Florida by launching the not-so-secret BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 models, also dubbed "Bold Touch...

White iPhone 4: It's Not Only The Color That's Changed

The Huffington Post | Thomas Houston | Posted 06.29.2011

The white iPhone 4 just can't catch a break. While the device is finally available to consumers after months of waiting, Engadget reports that the whi...

Android Has 'Huge' Malware Problem, Says Security Firm

San Francisco Chronicle | Posted 06.22.2011

Google's Android mobile-phone platform faces soaring software attacks and has little control over the applications, according to security firm Kaspers...

AT&T CEO: T-Mobile Deal Won't Raise Cellphone Bills

Reuters | Kenneth Li | Posted 05.30.2011

By Kenneth Li NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc (T.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) Chief Executive Randall Stephenson disputed the commonl...

Digital Parenting In The 21st Century

Dave Taylor | Posted 11.17.2011

Dave Taylor

It's our job as parents to keep them safe and to protect them when they do get into dangerous situations; whether it's that cruel gossip queen in their class or that wave of unknown kids they've just friended on Facebook.

Smart Phones Foster Dumb Habits Among Pedestrians

Posted 05.25.2011

(DAVID BAUDER, AP) NEW YORK — It was a miserable morning in New York, rain falling heavily and a 30 mph wind that made holding an umbrella diffi...

Daniel Kehlmann's Fame: The Self in the Cyber Century (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Christopher Lydon

Daniel Kehlmann is a very funny, very philosophical young fictionist from Germany who will make you want more like him -- and more playfully engaging ...

Breaking the Cell Phone Habit

Margaret Hyde | Posted 11.17.2011

Margaret Hyde

After a day of technology detox, I felt deeply relaxed and there was so much space and calm that I could focus and think creatively for longer periods.

Jobs for a "Two Billion Global Workforce"

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

Alexia Parks

What type of jobs would you assign if you could mobilize two billion people in major cities in 60 countries around the world?

Congress Cracks Down On Anonymous Prepaid Cellphones

gizmodo.com | Posted 05.25.2011

A new bill was introduced yesterday by senators Chuck Schumer and John Cornyn that would require prepaid cellphone purchasers to show ID at the time o...