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Asian handset makers using Google Inc's Android operating system might turn to rival platforms such as Microsoft Corp's Windows after Google upended the mobile landscape with its $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility Holdings.

Asian handset makers using Google's Android operating system might turn to rival platforms such as Microsoft's Windows after Google upended the mobile landscape by buying Motorola Mobility Holdings for $12.5 billion.

Ten employees of a cellular phone company in suburban Atlanta were hospitalized on Friday after a powdery substance was released from a package containing two phone batteries.

In "an attempt to show those engaging in the censorship what it feels like to be silenced," The hacker collective Anonymous chose Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) as its latest prey of hacking attacks.

The hacker group Anonymous was in the limelight once again Sunday for attacking Bay Area Rapid Transit and releasing sensitive information of ?at least 2,400? customers, in retaliation of the shutting down of cellular phone service in San Francisco subway stations.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) cell phone shutdown has drawn heaps of criticism. Now, hacking collective Anonymous has joined the fray.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) of San Francisco shut down underground cell phone communications for a few hours at various stations on Thursday night.

BART issued a statement on Friday to explain the cell phone disruption in four downtown San Francisco stations Thursday, which stirred criticism by civil libertarians.

A patent suggested that mini airbags, puffs of gas and even springs could be used to cushion a mobile devices fall.

Facebook users are worried, as a rumor has it, that all the phone numbers in your phone are now on Facebook, whether you have allowed the access or not.

British newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror will report first-half results on Friday and give an update on current trading expected to show a benefit from the closure of rival News Corp's News of the World.

Nokia is getting closer and closer to losing the top spot in terms of phones shipped globally as its share continues to sink.

A Berlin security firm has cracked the encryption code for some mobile phones using the Internet, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Wednesday, citing the company's chief.

Nokia has decided to part ways with Symbian in the U.S. A move that should shock very few.

After 21 years working with Microsoft and spearheading development for Windows Phone, Charlie Kindel has suddenly resigned, leaving Microsoft to start a new company on his own.

An Egyptian judge on Monday asked to see minutes of a meeting when a decision was taken to cut mobile and Internet services during an uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak, a move that could draw the ruling military into the controversy.

Since the launch of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, the market share of Windows-powered smartphones has fallen 38 percent, something unusual to happen following the debut of a new product.

Finding London's Roman ruins amid the tangled network of streets and lanes that make up the ancient part of a contemporary city is a challenge for even the most experienced urban explorer.

In a world of never-ending battle for preserving intellectual property, technology giants Microsoft and Apple are hitting out at Google.

Former Beatle Paul McCartney said on Thursday that he appears to be a victim of the newspaper phone hacking scandal in Britain and will be talking to police when he finishes a U.S. tour.

China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world's No. 2 network equipment maker, launched its cloud computing smartphones on Wednesday, looking to ride a mobile industry boom that drove a 64 percent sales rise in its devices unit in the first half.