Category: Mobile Phones

The idea that the used cell phone will be replacing the wallet for the great majority of consumers has been big news in recent months, with businesses racing against one another in order to be the first to bring out payment systems that will enable customers to carry out transactions with their cell phones and eliminate the need to carry either cash or credit cards on their persons.

The use of new and old cell phones as a way of purchasing consumer products may still be in its infancy, but the minority of consumers who do so are steadily growing in the United States, according to new research.

I was reading an article this morning on Reuters that says that the Android OS now makes up 48 percent of the world wide mobile platform market, with its dominance particularly being felt in the Asia-Pacific.

A school bus driver who used cell phones while operating the vehicle has been dismissed following a hearing in Pasco in the United States.

Last updated April 12, 2019A new cell phone hacking scandal is engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s News International organization in the United

In 2009, 18.2% of cell phone users had no-contract phones. In 2010, that number rose to 21%. According to experts, 2011 will see even more turning to no-contract phones.

Suffolk County has begun a week long crackdown on drivers who use new or old cell phones while behind the wheel of a motor vehicle, whether it is to talk or to send text messages.

Legislators in Texas in the United States have failed in their bid to make it illegal to use new or old cell phones while operating a motor vehicle after the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, vetoed the bill.

The hacking of used cell phones has been big news over the last few weeks, with the scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, but now a new warning about the dangers of cell phone hackers has been sounded.

Cody Wilkins, a burglar from Montgomery County in the United States, became famous all over the world because of the exceptionally inept manner in which he allowed himself to be caught – leaving his old cell phone plugged into a wall socket in the house of one of his victims because it needed recharging and then forgetting to take it with him when he fled – yet there was little laughter when the criminal received a prison sentence of no less than 26 and a half years for his actions.