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Cellphones Stories

Cell Phones As a Dirty Bomb Detection Network 89
How BlackBerry Is Riding iOS and Android To Power Its Comeback 119
Kaspersky Inks a Deal With Qualcomm To Improve Android Security 56
Ubuntu Touch: The Other Linux OS For Your Phone 53
Mozilla Handing Out Free Firefox OS Developer Phones To Bolster App Marketplace 53
Smartphones Driving Violent Crime Across US 204
The Days of Cheap, Subsidized Phones May Be Numbered 329
Cyanogenmod 10.1 RC1 Starts To Roll Out To Devices Near You 124
Reps Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Legalize Mobile Device Unlocking 133
Ubuntu Touch Developers Aim for Daily Phone Usability Before June 83
Microsoft's Most Profitable Mobile Operating System: Android 309
San Francisco Abandons Mobile Phone Radiation Labels 132
Pentagon Approval of iOS and Samsung KNOX Is Bad News for BlackBerry 49
Florida Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant To Search Cell Phones 107
Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads 371
ZTE Joins Long List of Android Device-Makers Licensing Microsoft Patents 112
Smartphone Used To Scan Data From Chip-Enabled Credit Cards 236
HTC Does What Google Wouldn't: Sell an LTE Phone That Sidesteps AT&T 290
Android Users Get Scammed With In-App Antivirus Ads 82
Ubuntu Touch Beta Images Available For Testing 48
Google Leak Hints At an Android Game Center With Multiplayer Support 44
In Iceland, Tap Cellphones To Avoid Incest 296
Why It's So Hard To Make a Phone Call In Emergency Situations 179
What's Next For Smartphone Innovation 257
Jolla Ports Wayland To Android GPU Drivers 90
Facebook Home Reviews Arrive 70
EFF Urges Court To Protect Privacy of Text Messages 93
FBI's Smartphone Surveillance Tool Explained In Court Battle 168
Method Found To Unlock Qualcomm Based Motorola Phones 21
German Court Finds Apple's 'Slide To Unlock' Patent Invalid 120
Mobile App Screens Calls With Brain Waves 40
Facebook Launches "Home" For Android 138
Wiping a Smartphone Still Leaves Data Behind 155
Windows Phone Actually Gaining Market Share In Some Countries 114
How Mobile Devices Kill Your Creativity 126
FCC To Update 1996 Cell Phone Radiation Standard 90
Why Your Next Phone Will Include Biometric Security 110
New Facebook-Branded Android Coming? 112
North Korea Halts 3G Internet Access After One Month 63
Mobile Phone Use Patterns Identify Individuals Better Than Fingerprints 88
T-Mobile Ends Contracts and Subsidies 404
Another Way Carriers Screw Customers: Premium SMS 'Errors' 198
Ask Slashdot: Getting Apps To Use Phones' Full Power? 184
KDE's Calligra Office Suite For Android Released 61
European Carriers Complain To EU About Anti-Competitive Contracts With Apple 146
Poking Holes In Samsung's Android Security 107
Galaxy S 4 Dominates In Early Benchmark Testing 276
We Should Be Allowed To Unlock Everything We Own 317
Lamenting the Demise of Hangups 215
Where Have All the Gadgets Gone? 278
Samsung Unveils the Galaxy S4 619
Take Hands-Free 360 Degree Panoramic Photos With an iPhone (Video) 109
US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem 203
SXSW: How Mobile Devices Are Changing Africa 65
Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location 277
Android In Space: STRaND-1 Satellite To Activate Nexus One 103
White House Urges Reversal of Ban On Cell-Phone Unlocking 256
FCC To Investigate Cell Phone Unlocking Ban 65
Ubuntu Touch Beats Firefox OS For 'Best of MWC' From CNET 152
Smartphone Screen Real Estate: How Big Is Big Enough? 320
Sergey Brin Says Using a Smartphone Is 'Emasculating' 325
LG Not Working On Windows Phone 8 Devices 123
Wikipedia Will Soon Be Available Via Text Messages 34
Nvidia Tegra 4 Benchmark Results 42
18 Carriers Sign Up for Firefox OS Phones 107
White House Petition To Make Unlocking Phones Legal Passes 100,000 Signatures 317
Got a Cell Phone Booster? FCC Says You Have To Turn It Off 245
Cellphone Privacy In Canada: Encryption Triggers Need For Warrant 111
White House Petition To Make Cell Phone Unlocking Legal Needs 11,000 Signatures 193
Tizen 2.0 Magnolia SDK and Source Code Released 37
HTC Unveils Revamped HTC One 152
Bill Gates Says Windows Phone Strategy Was Inadequate 268
Google Watchers Expect Company-Branded Stores This Year 86
Ubuntu For Phones To Arrive Next Week On Nexus 4 107
RIM Co-Founder Drops His Stock 114
Brazilians Can Now Buy an "iPhone" Loaded With Android 263
£6700 Phone Uses Android Instead of Windows 142
Connecting Android Phones Without Carrier Networks 102
Woz Says iPhone Features Are 'Behind' 587
BlackBerry 10 Review: Good, But Too Late? 184
Startup Uses Radiation Fear To Map Cellphone Coverage 81
Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping In October 102
AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad. 798
US Wants Apple, Google, and Microsoft To Get a Grip On Mobile Privacy 103
Can Any Smartphone Platform Overcome the Android/iOS Duopoly? 404
RIM Unveils BlackBerry 10, Its Big Turnaround Hope 267
RIM's BB10 Campaign Requires Some Serious Work 171
Ask Slashdot: Best Free and Open Source Apps For Android? 134
What You Need To Know About Phone Unlocking 321
Accessorize Your Phone With Another Phone 171
Unlocking New Mobile Phones Becomes Illegal In the US Tomorrow 475
Nokia's 808 PureView Officially the End of the Symbian Line 102
Have a Wi-Fi-Enabled Phone? Stores Are Tracking You 323
CES: Bringing Electronics Assembly and Distribution to Central Africa (Video) 61
Firefox OS Smartphones Arriving For Developers 124
Three Low-Tech Hacks for Phones and Tablets 286
Android Botnet Infects 1 Million Plus Phones 92
Nokia To Release Lumia Case Design Files For 3D Printers 129
RIM Attracts 15,000 Apps For BlackBerry 10 In 2 Days 193
Bug Sends Lost-Phone Seekers To Same Wrong Address 298
Smartphones: Life's Remote Control 121
Chinese Smartphone Invasion Begins 181
Hands On With Ubuntu For SmartPhones 127
Apple's App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads; Generates $7 Billion For Developers 177
The Android SDK Is No Longer Free Software 535
Who Would Actually Build an Ubuntu Smartphone? 230
Nokia N9: the World's Most Underrated Smartphone? 176
Ubuntu Phone OS Unveiled 248
Samsung And Docomo Reportedly Working on Tizen Phone 88
Bloomberg: Steve Jobs Behind NYC Crime Wave 311
Samsung Retaliates Against Ericsson With Patent Complaint 43
Google Skunkworks Working on 'X Phone,' Reports WSJ 97
Reexamination Request Filed Against Another Apple Patent 85
RIM Pays Off Nokia; Patent Dispute Settled 23
Nokia Dethroned As Top Phone Maker By Samsung 134
Samsung Drops European Injunction Requests Against Apple 71
Huge Security Hole In Recent Samsung Devices 153
California Sues Delta Air Lines Over Mobile Privacy 100
iPhone Finally Coming To T-Mobile In 2013 154
Nokia Selling Its Headquarters To Raise Funds 186
Android Rules Smartphones, But Which Version? 298
Happy (Early) Bday! :) SMS Txt Msgs Turn 20 54
Flexible Phones 'Out By 2013' 152
PressureNET 2.1 Released: the Distributed Barometer Network For Android 82
The Coming Wave of In-Dash Auto System Obsolescence 445
Dual Interface Mobile Devices To Address BYOD Issue 116
NYC Police Gathering Cellphone Logs 122
Nexus 4 Includes Support For LTE 83
BlackBerry 10 Preview Looks Positive 122
US Judge Orders Apple To Share HTC Deal Details With Samsung 106
Jolla Mobile Set To Launch Its Sailfish OS Today, Signs Deal with Finnish Telco 74
USPTO Head: Current Patent Litigation Is 'Reasonable' 153
Mozilla Makes Prototype of Firefox OS Available 101
Windows Phone 8 Users Hit Some Snags 391
Just Days After Release, Google's Nexus 4 Has Already Been Rooted 85
One Step Toward a Babel Fish: Real-Time Voice Translation For Phones 131
Google Targets Android Fragmentation With Updated Terms For SDK 154
Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts 418
CyanogenMod Domain Hijacked 143
Why You Can't Build Your Own Smartphone: Patents 179
Bungled Mobile Bet Will Be Ballmer's Swan Song 300
Australian Telcos Declare SMS Unsafe For Bank Transactions 42
Verizon To Shut Down App Store By January 59
Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability? 267
MIT Research Tweaks Smartphone Amplifier Voltage To Gain Battery Life 47
Verizon Worker Arrested For Copying Customer's Nude Pictures 282
Microsoft Reportedly Working On Its Own Smartphone 215
To Mollify Google on Moto Patents, Apple Proposes $1/Device Fee 582
Stolen Cellphone Databases Switched On In US 165
Windows Phone 8 Having Trouble Attracting Developers 268
48-Core Chips Could Redefine Mobile Devices 285
Google Nexus 4 Prototype Lost In a Bar 200
Secret Stingray Warrantless Cellphone Tracking 62
HTC Losing Ground Faster Than RIM or Nokia 280
The Greatest Battle of the Personal Computing Revolution Lies Ahead 291
Can Nokia Save Itself? 317
Ask Slashdot: How Can I Protect My Android Devices From Hackers? 295
Japan Getting Real-Time Phone Call Translator App 113
Black Sheep Blackberry Blackballed By Business 349
Italian Supreme Court Accepts Mobile Phone-Tumor Link 190
Smartphone Mugging More Popular Than Ever 285
Is Qualcomm the New AMD? 331
Poor SSL Implementations Leave Many Android Apps Vulnerable 141
The Group That Makes Tech Work For the Disabled 44
The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed 409
The Story of Nokia MeeGo 125
Interviews: Ask Free Software Legal Giant Eben Moglen 56
Google Wades Further Into Hardware With "Nexus Call Center" 58
HTC Profits Drop By 79% 209
The Case That Apple Should Buy Nokia 286
Sprint Now Offering Vanity Phone Numbers Aliases With **Me Service 85
Samsung Galaxy Note II Source Code Released 32
UK 'Virtual ID Card' Scheme Set For Launch 84
Jolla Founds Alliance Based On MeeGo Distribution "Sailfish" 33
T-Mobile Merging With MetroPCS 86
Ask Slashdot: Best Cell Phone Carrier In the US? 375
Barnes & Noble's Nook HD Tablets Face iPad, Kindle Fire HD 134
Samsung Smartphones Vulnerable To Remote Wipe Hack 151
Teardown Finds iPhone 5 Costs Apple About the Same As Did 4S 143
Flatlining User Base May Spell End of RIM 180
iOS 6 Adoption Tops 25% After Just 48 Hours 513
Verizon-Branded iPhone 5 Ships Unlocked, Works With Other Networks 100
6 Million Virgin Mobile Users Vulnerable To Brute-Force Attacks 80
Android Hacked Via NFC On the Samsung Galaxy S 3 198
Motorola's First Intel-Based Handset Launches In UK 64
Wireless Analysis With Monitor Mode On Android 49
Yahoo Excludes BlackBerry From Employee Smartphone List 192
Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Preorders Top 2 Million In 24 Hours 428
The Passing of the Personal Computer Era 329
Microsoft Patents Whacking Your Phone To Silence It 214
Google Pressured Acer/Alibaba Because of Android Compatibility Issues 255
Apple Wins Again — ITC Rules They Didn't Violate Samsung Patents 149
Firefox OS: Disruptive By Aiming Low 286
Preventing Another Carrier IQ: Introducing the Mobile Device Privacy Act 60
What Windows Phone 8 Needs To Do To Succeed 246
Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android 352
Apple Announces iPhone 5 1052
UK Finally Gets 4G Networking 49
WhatsApp Is Using IMEI Numbers As Passwords 102
For Android Users, 2012 Is Still the Year of Gingerbread 257
Samsung: Android's Multitouch Not As Good As Apple's 176
Windows Phone 8 SDK — By Appointment Only 153
Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad 233
Nokia Claims a Memory Card Slot Would Have "Defiled" New Phone 371
Google Awarded Face-To-Unlock Patent 194
First Impressions of Windows 8 Powered Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 396
Sprint Allows LTE Service Over Mobile Virtual Network 45
Leaked Photo Shows Touch-Screen BlackBerry 10 Phone 112
Leave Your Cellphone At Home, Says Jacob Appelbaum 306
Leak Shows What Could Be Nokia's New Windows Phone 8 Devices 110
Side-Effect of the Apple v. Samsung Trial: Increased Sales for Samsung 385
Samsung Unveils Windows Phone 8 Device and Android-Based Camera 179
Apple Seeks To Block 8 Samsung Products After Court Win 396
StethoCloud Project Diagnoses Pneumonia On the Cheap 55
App Can Prevent Users From Texting While Driving 144
Why Cell Phone Bans Don't Work 335
T-Mobile Returns To Unlimited Data Plans 152
Mobile Operator Grabs 4G Lead In UK — But Will Anything Work On It? 81
Motorola Releases an Official Bootloader Unlocker 123
Judge Suggests Apple Is "Smoking Crack" With Witness List In Samsung Case 318
First Pictures of Apple's New Mini Connector 303
Ask Slashdot: A Cheap US Cellphone Plan With an Unlocked Phone? 288
Verizon Bases $5 Fee To Not Publish Your Phone Number On 'Systems and IT' Costs 331
Police Don't Need a Warrant To Track Your Disposable Cellphone 312
Alternative To QR Code Uses NFC and Cheap Rectennas 164
Nokia Spinning Featurephones as Smartphones 210
DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It 454
Why Apple Is Suing Every Android Manufacturer In Sight 738
CyanogenMod 9 Achieves Stable Release 75
Starbucks Partners With Square 145
Why Intel Should Buy Nokia 200
AT&T Killing Its 2G Network By 2017 102
Should Developers Support Windows Phone 8? 345
Fighting the iCrime Wave 170
Did Apple Buy Fingerprint Security Firm For Mobile Wallet? 35
Man Claims Cell Phone Taken By DC Police For Taking Photos 318
Google Warned Samsung Galaxy Tab Was "Too Similar" 251
Nokia Aborts Meltemi Linux-Based Feature Phone 105
Samsung Galaxy S3 Stripped of Local Search 243
Apple Blames Earnings Miss On iPhone 5 Anticipation 242
Gadget Addiction or Work Intrusion? 111
Australians Receive SMS Death Threats 192
Google Releases Jelly Bean Updates For the Nexus S 104
Judge: Cops Can Impersonate Owner Of Seized Cell Phones 213
Don't Super-Size My Smartphone! 660
Google Releases Android 4.1 SDK 58
iOS 6 Beta 3 Jailbroken Already 68
Jolla Confirms MeeGo App Store Is Coming 66
AT&T Introducing Verizon-Style Shared Data Plans 307
It Costs $450 In Marketing To Make Someone Buy a $49 Nokia Lumia 363

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