While new technologies such as tablets and voice-enabled software that can understand even the vaguest of instructions are making the headlines, they appear to be widening the digital divide between young and old Americans.

A teenager who fell down a rubbish chute, while trying to retrieve her old cell phone, has blamed the accident on her ‘flip-flops’ footwear.

To lose your cell phone results in a very good chance that you will lose your privacy too, according to a new study.

The senior citizen from Winnipeg in Canada at the center of a flap about a police ticket for the use of a cell phone while driving, who says he does not even own a cell phone, has called the police service “liars” over their handling of the situation.

A cell phone that can let you know whether those leftovers in your fridge are actually still safe to eat could be the next thing to hit the shops.

An increasing number of states are imposing restrictions of one form or another on the use of cell phones while driving.

A major turning point has been reached in Asia’s war against poaching, with jail time being given to Thailand’s infamous ‘cell phone’ tiger poachers.

The four-year-old ban on using a new or old cell phone while operating a motor vehicle in the state of California has been declared a success with a significant drop in traffic deaths of as much as 22 percent over the period that the ban has been in force.

A ‘vigilante cell phone jammer’ fed up of people talking loudly on their new and old cell phones used a jammer to make his bus trip just that bit quieter.