Tech giants Apple and Google, which together have near total control of the smartphone market, promise that only public health authorities will be able to access the companies’ new contact-tracing technology and governments will not be allowed to force people to use the technology.
Eleven suspects were arrested after a month-long child sex crime sting in Pawnee County, Oklahoma, recently.
The University of Missouri (Mizzou) is forcing students to download a tracking app to their cellphones so that university officials can keep track of which students attend class, and which ones do not. Mizzou officials claim that they are tracking students for their own good.
Voters in the King Conservation District, which includes 1.2 million people in the Greater Seattle area, will soon be able to vote via smartphone in a first for U.S. elections. One professor specializing in election technology called the entire concept of voting via smartphone “a very stupid idea.”
According to a recent report, K-12 schools around the country are having to treat students for separation anxiety after implementing policies that require students to hand over their smartphones. One school’s solution was to buy locking pouches for smartphones, which
A recent report from the Norwegian Consumer Council alleges that dating and fertility apps are some of the biggest offenders when it comes to sharing private user data with ad firms.
American colleges and universities are using students’ smartphones to track surveil students on campus. Many students have opted into surveillance programs after being encouraged by their professors.
A report published by the New York Times on Sunday, described a smartphone messaging app called ToTok as a spying tool deployed by the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to monitor the movements of its citizens and listen to their conversations.
According to a recent report, less than 10 percent of American consumers are purchasing $1,000 flagship smartphones from companies like Apple and Samsung.
Students at San Mateo High School — in the heart of Silicon Valley — must now lock up their phones at the start of every school day this year. The school is using a device, developed by a start-up company specifically for locking up phones so that students can be more engaged with their surroundings rather than with their phones.
A recent report claims that Google has shut down a service which showed wireless carriers weak spots in their network coverage over privacy concerns.
Chinese billionaire Ren Zhengfei, founder of telecommunications titan Huawei, wrote an internal memo this week laying out plans to overhaul the company over the next three to five years and create an “invincible iron army” to fight against regulatory pressure and competition from the United States.
A recent study found that nearly half of students are distracted by the use of smartphones and other technology in the classroom. Some students also said that it’s the teacher’s job to make the classroom more interesting, in order to deter them from using technology.
Professor Tom Bensky at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, has developed an app that tracks classroom attendance using the GPS function on his student’s smartphones.
The FCC recently issued a warning about a new phone scam being labeled the “One Ring” scam. This is how you can avoid scammers trying to rip you off if you return a missed call.
State lawmakers in Kansas recently introduced two bills that would effectively censor pornography in the state by requiring computers and smartphones sold in the state to have porn filters installed.
The Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan announced on Tuesday that smartphones and computers from China’s Huawei corporation will no longer be allowed to connect with its internal network. The ban was imposed “for the sake of information security.”
Cell phone service providers including AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint are allegedly selling access to the location data of their customers, which can end up in the possession of unauthorized individuals, according to a recent report.
According to recently published internal documents, Facebook executives predicted a public backlash over an update to the company’s Android app which would send call and text data to Facebook.
Nearly 90 percent of apps analyzed in a report sent data directly back to Google, while 42 percent of apps also sent data to Facebook.
Google will reportedly soon be charging phone manufacturers to pre-load Google apps such as Gmail, YouTube and Google Maps on their devices for the E.U. market.
New tools from Apple and Google aim to help users analyze how long they spend on their phones and set timers to prevent access to certain apps, similar to child controls.
Tech giant Google has admitted to changing Android phone settings remotely without user permission, a move considered by experts to be bad for “transparency and consent.”
“Hundreds” of apps for Google’s Android platform failed to disclose third-party analytics and advertising services within them, which collected personal user information, according to a report.
France has banned children under the age of fifteen from using smartphones at school.
The Defense Department announced on Wednesday it has banned the sale of smartphones made by the Chinese corporations Huawei and ZTE on U.S. military bases, describing them as an “unacceptable risk to the Department’s personnel, information, and mission.”
Musician Jack White has banned the use of mobile phones and other recording equipment on his upcoming tour, where attendees will have their technology locked inside a secure pouch.
Two prominent Apple shareholders have called on the company to research the impact of smartphones on children.
(Reuters) – A ban on pedestrians looking at mobile phones or texting while crossing the street will take effect in Hawaii’s largest city in late October, as Honolulu becomes the first major U.S. city to pass legislation aimed at reducing injuries and deaths from “distracted walking.”
A new home test kit that incorporates a smartphone attachment and app allows men to test their fertility, measuring sperm count, concentration, and movement.
NEW YORK – an Israeli invention launched on Tuesday, has set out to put quality back in family time by taking smartphones out of the equation.
With Samsung cancelling the Galaxy Note 7 after a continuing series of random spontaneous combustions, Apple iPhone 7 Plus and Google’s Pixel XL seem best positioned to battle it out for the 8 million sales opportunities.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost several mobile telephones carrying e-mails from her private server during her time in office, according to newly-released FBI documents on the investigation into her mishandling of classified information.
U.S. labor productivity has been stagnating over the last few years and is expected to decline this year for the first time in three decades, according to the Dallas Federal Reserve, and some employers are blaming the stalled productivity on millennials playing on their smartphones.
The government is providing some illegal immigrant families with smartphones to temporarily use as they travel throughout the United States to their “destination” cities.
The Jerusalem Post reports: The rabbinic leadership of several hassidic groups has in recent days been stepping up a campaign to implement strict restrictions and conditions on the use of smartphones within the community. The Viznitz hassidic community held a large conference
The newly-introduced Samsung Pay is about to crush Apple Pay, because all newer generation Galaxy mobile phones already work with 85 percent of “swipe-style” credit card machines.
The FTC is apparently concerned that Google may be unfairly promoting its search engine on their popular Android mobile operating system.
In its second annual report on consumer mobility, the Bank of America found that Americans are more plugged in than ever, with 71 percent even admitting that they sleep with their cell phones next to them. This, the BoA said, is evidence of a growing rate of addiction to mobile devices.
Apple’s earnings vaulted by 27.5% for the first three months of 2015 compared to the same period last year, on the phenomenal Chinese sales driving profit margins for the iPhone 6. The virtuous smartphone tailwind and buzz about the Apple Watch spiked store traffic that also goosed Mac sales. With an operating margin of over 30 percent and $194 billion in the bank, Apple deserves to be the world’s most valuable company.
