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Radio frequency identification technology, which enables objects, pets and people to be tagged and tracked wirelessly, is likely to be ubiquitous in the not-so-distant future. Almost no aspect of life may soon be safe from the prying eyes of corporations and governments.
Consumers using standard messaging technology can rest assured that their texts are not stored long term. The sexually explicit text-message chat between Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and a top aide that came to light used a paging technology more akin to e-mail.
The open-source Firefox browser is headed to a mobile device near you. New mockups released by Mozilla show that mobile Firefox, due later this year, is being designed with the latest touch screen handhelds -- possibly including the iPhone -- in mind.
The suspension means that there will be no iPhone launch in China, at least for now.
After suffering bumps in the road to development, Apple's iPhone takes the wireless industry by storm, and turns a power structure between carriers and manufacturers on its head in the process.
The world didn't end and most calls and messages got through, but the high volume of texting and cellphone calls resulted in a lot of bounce-backs. In a real crisis, this could mean real trouble.
Google and Earthlink tried, and failed, disappearing in a sea of bureaucratic red tape. Now a startup hopes to persuade San Franciscans to voluntarily put radio repeaters on their rooftops. Good luck with that.
Phonemakers and carriers are counting on the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show as a chance to recover from the 2007 CES, when Apple's announcement of the iPhone eclipsed anything debuted in Las Vegas.
All that stands between you and seeing your cellphone turned into a conduit for endless sales-pitch intrusions is your mobile provider, who, for now at least, is skittish about violating any privacy laws. That could change, however.
The year ending looks like it will go into the books as the first year in which Americans spent more money on cellphone services than traditional landlines, the industry reports.
Linksys has an iPhone too, announced well before Apple's product of the same name. It's a phone to use with VOIP services, so why don't they call it something else?
Like Ford's Model T, the Western Electric 500 is the iconic image of a telephone in 1949, the year of its debut.
Google releases the software developer's kit for its Android mobile operating system, encouraging software jockeys to start coding by offering $10 million in prizes to the best apps for the open-source platform.
The Eye-Fi card transmits photos wirelessly so photos don't get trapped on your camera. Here's how some geeks figured a way for you to use Wi-Fi to easily send digital photos straight from your camera to your favorite photo vendor site or hard drive.
More and more people are taking advantage of their cellphones' faster networks to tune-in to quality content.
While the internet powerhouse won't actually be making the phone -- several manufacturing partners will be charged with doing that -- the new mobile will carry Google software and bring the internet to cellphones "in a very cool way."
The Google Phone may dropkick the wireless industry as early as Monday. Here's what we know, based on the
Journal and other sources.
Its income drops 77 percent as customers continue a mass exodus from the struggling carrier: Sprint loses 337,000 contract customers and 6 million customers overall in the last quarter. Meanwhile, the company is still without a CEO.
The next great mobile hope for Linux, the Neo1973, has arrived. Wired News has a first look at the most promising open source alternative to the iPhone.
The iPhone won't take focus from any of the fancy new cell phones on show at the CTIA mobile phone expo in San Francisco this week, but it'll influence the conversation. Look for social networking and mobile gaming to be central themes at the trade show, and phones with names like Juke and Pixi.
Mobile Complete is a young company with a unique service: It hooks the innards of cell phones to the net for software programmers to work on. A disassembled Apple iPhone is just one of thousands of phones wired to rack after rack of servers. It's
The Matrix for mobiles.
Apple announces an iPhone software developer's kit will be released in February. But hackers already have their own sophisticated SDK for getting code on the iPhone, including viruses, Trojans and the ability to snoop on audio and video.
Attempts to force open the iPhone to third-party development or to other carriers has been a battle. But a slew of free, open-source and hacker-friendly alternatives are in the works. We look at nine of the best.
The LG Voyager bears a strong resemblance to Apple's iPhone, which may Verizon's way of saying, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
Loaded with silly "feminine" features, a mockup phone dreamed up by Popgadget's Mia Kim is downright offensive. If only it had the features a real woman actually needs.
IPhone owners who have unlocked their handsets to escape AT&T may find their phone doesn't work after Apple's next software update.
Intel has been touting WiMax -- the long-range, high-bandwidth wireless data protocol -- for years. Now it's about to pay off. At Intel Developer Forum today, Intel's David Perlmutter promises that notebook vendors will ship WiMax-enabled computers next year.
When Apple's iPhone gatecrashed CES two months ago, it forced the cellular industry's hand. At Florida's CTIA Wireless 2007 show this week, it forced them to fold. Buzz, if nothing else, has won the first round.
Wired News sits down with the Near Field Communications Forum to discuss the latest in cell phone wizardry -- using your mobile handset as an e-wallet. Eliot Van Buskirk reports from Las Vegas.
Our reporter hits the road to see what free ubiquitous wireless broadband feels like. Griffin Wright reports from Mountain View, California.
EarthLink's dream of blanketing an entire city with Wi-Fi will come true when Anaheim, California, flips the switch later this month. The company hopes to use the bold experiment as a blueprint for the future. From Forbes.com.
Forget about looping the block searching for a spot. Soon, motorists will be able to swoop in and snag choice parking spaces using cell phones or handheld devices. By Dan Orzech.
Standards for the hotly anticipated Wi-Fi successor haven't yet been agreed upon. Where's that leave all those early-bird products? By Seán Captain.
The five-hour bus ride between two Baltic capitals just got easier. With constant internet access, a couple of flat-screen TVs and a built-in espresso machine, time flies. By Cyrus Farivar.
Despite dwindling to almost half its peak attendance, the world's biggest consumer electronics show still has some life left in it -- not to mention loads of new gear. By Rob Beschizza.
The Urban Forest Mapping Project, an open-source database that maps every public tree in San Francisco, goes online. Squirrels are worried, but the project's engineers hope their code spreads. By Rachel Swaby.
Eight television networks feed video content to mobile phones through the new service, which costs $15 to $25 a month. By the Associated Press.
See that spot that just opened up? Forget about it. Some yuppie won it in an auction two hours ago, so you're out of luck. Commentary by Tony Long.
