Cellphone Users

As temperatures soar across the country, a new concern is emerging for smartphone users: how to protect your phone from overheating. Just like people, smartphones have their comfort zones when it comes to temperature.

US Senators and civil rights lawyers are pushing for a law that would limit the ability of law enforcement in the US to purchase and use tools to track users using their cellphones, sometimes without a search warrant. Earlier this month, it was reported that US police departments were using a tool called "Fog Reveal" search hundreds of billions of ...

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel may take lead in hiking mobile call and services rates this year as it looks to increase average revenue per user to Rs 200, a top official of the company said.

The Chinese Communist Party appears to have "superuser" access to all the data on more than 100 million cellphones, owing to a back door in a propaganda app that the government has been promoting aggressively this year.

2.0 sees Rajinikanth return as Dr. Vaseegaran and Chitti, while Akshay Kumar plays the villain of the movie Pakshi Rajan. 2.0 is out now in theatres.

Surveillance systems that track the locations of cellphone users and spy on their calls, texts and data streams are being turned against Americans as they roam the country and the world, say security experts and U.S. officials.

LocationSmart operates in a little-known business sector that provides data to companies for such uses as tracking employees and texting e-coupons to customers near relevant stores.

A homegrown cellphone operating system developed by a group of IIT men could be the first to become Aadhaar authenticated. Its makers are working out a system that will allow users to carry out online transactions using iris scanning system. The fool-proof method, the company hopes, will help popularise non-cash, digital transactions, which is one ...

The number of people who go online through cellphones has reached 695 million, or 95.1 percent, as computers lose their appeal.

Sometimes it seems that no one in China, from toddlers to octogenarians, ladies in swimming pools to delivery men mid-manoeuvre, is without a cellphone to hand -- and statistically it is more or less true.

Kaspersky Lab's latest report says that the number of mobile users impacted by ransomware has "skyrocketed" as hackers have shifted their focus from PCs.

Yahoo Inc was ordered by a Chicago federal judge on Monday to face a class action lawsuit accusing the Internet company of sending unsolicited text messages to Sprint Corp cellphone users in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Should India allow Facebook's initiative - Free Basics - which claims a commitment to bringing free basic Internet services to cellphone users across the country?

India's telecom regulator has suggested that cellphone carriers should compensate customers for call drops and poor service quality amid an alarming rate of service failures that even has Prime Minister Narendra Modi vexed.

For cellphone users in India, it is becoming common to be cut off mid-sentence - and not just because the other person's bored with the conversation. -Call drops- have doubled in the last one year, according to telecom regulator TRAI, and are now four times higher than the permissible limit. Here's your 10-point cheat-sheet to the controversy:

As temperatures soar across the country, a new concern is emerging for smartphone users: how to protect your phone from overheating. Just like people, smartphones have their comfort zones when it comes to temperature.

US Senators and civil rights lawyers are pushing for a law that would limit the ability of law enforcement in the US to purchase and use tools to track users using their cellphones, sometimes without a search warrant. Earlier this month, it was reported that US police departments were using a tool called "Fog Reveal" search hundreds of billions of ...

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel may take lead in hiking mobile call and services rates this year as it looks to increase average revenue per user to Rs 200, a top official of the company said.

The Chinese Communist Party appears to have "superuser" access to all the data on more than 100 million cellphones, owing to a back door in a propaganda app that the government has been promoting aggressively this year.

2.0 sees Rajinikanth return as Dr. Vaseegaran and Chitti, while Akshay Kumar plays the villain of the movie Pakshi Rajan. 2.0 is out now in theatres.

Surveillance systems that track the locations of cellphone users and spy on their calls, texts and data streams are being turned against Americans as they roam the country and the world, say security experts and U.S. officials.

LocationSmart operates in a little-known business sector that provides data to companies for such uses as tracking employees and texting e-coupons to customers near relevant stores.

A homegrown cellphone operating system developed by a group of IIT men could be the first to become Aadhaar authenticated. Its makers are working out a system that will allow users to carry out online transactions using iris scanning system. The fool-proof method, the company hopes, will help popularise non-cash, digital transactions, which is one ...

The number of people who go online through cellphones has reached 695 million, or 95.1 percent, as computers lose their appeal.

Sometimes it seems that no one in China, from toddlers to octogenarians, ladies in swimming pools to delivery men mid-manoeuvre, is without a cellphone to hand -- and statistically it is more or less true.

Kaspersky Lab's latest report says that the number of mobile users impacted by ransomware has "skyrocketed" as hackers have shifted their focus from PCs.

Yahoo Inc was ordered by a Chicago federal judge on Monday to face a class action lawsuit accusing the Internet company of sending unsolicited text messages to Sprint Corp cellphone users in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Should India allow Facebook's initiative - Free Basics - which claims a commitment to bringing free basic Internet services to cellphone users across the country?

India's telecom regulator has suggested that cellphone carriers should compensate customers for call drops and poor service quality amid an alarming rate of service failures that even has Prime Minister Narendra Modi vexed.

For cellphone users in India, it is becoming common to be cut off mid-sentence - and not just because the other person's bored with the conversation. -Call drops- have doubled in the last one year, according to telecom regulator TRAI, and are now four times higher than the permissible limit. Here's your 10-point cheat-sheet to the controversy: