• 2016-04-13

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Mobile phones are in the hands of millions of people around the world. And increasingly, it appears, in the hands of terrorists. The bombers who targeted commuter trains in Madrid on March 11 used the built-in alarm clock in mobile phones to set off explosives. In Jerusalem,...

• 2016-03-28

China Unicom reported weak financial results in the fourth quarter of 2015 wherein total revenue was down year over year while loss per ADR was in contrast to earnings recorded in the prior-year quarter. Nonetheless, the 3G/4G space is a compelling opportunity and should propel growth. In the fourth...

• 2016-03-18

Struggling to curb the use of mobile phones in exam centres, the Maharashtra state education board can learn from ICSE and CBSE boards which has adapted high-tech methods such as installing network jammers, CCTVs, and other best practices to prevent cheating during exams, suggest experts. The state ...

• 2016-03-11

Wireless companies say they’ve been told their signals may be jammed during the G8 and G20 summits, but aren’t being given any more information about how thousands of cellphone users could be affected. While the G8 summit is in Ontario cottage country, the G20 is in the heart of downtown Toronto, an...

• 2016-03-04

New Delhi:  The University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked all colleges and Universities that wish to install jammers to curb unfair means in exams to not procure them from "unauthorised manufacturers". After concerns were expressed by the Union Cabinet secretariat about procurement of these ...

• 2016-02-24

The actual definition of 5G is likely to remain nebulous for a while, but that isn't stopping Verizon from announcing today at Mobile World Congress that it's already begun testing the tech for its next-generation networks, following through on a 2015 promise to carry out trials this year. Earlier t...

• 2016-02-17

Mobile phone calls in Sydney's CBD will be blocked by a sophisticated counter-terrorism measure to prevent bomb attacks during US President George W Bush's September APEC visit. The president's motorcade will be shadowed by a helicopter equipped with signal-jamming equipment, News Limited newspapers...

• 2016-02-01

Eight years after installing the first cell phone signal jammers in Sabarmati Jail, authorities have now decided to install 4G signal jammers to curb illegal use of cell phones by inmates. Jail officials said that out of 24, currently only two jails in the state, Ahmedabad and Vadodara central jails...

• 2016-01-26

In order to prevent hi-tech cheating, statutory examination-conducting bodies have been allowed to use mobile-phone jammers. In a new policy notified by the cabinet secretariat – the nodal authority for granting permission and clearance for use and procurement of jammers – examination bodies have be...

• 2016-01-20

The Pakistani authorities have imposed a curfew in Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad, after eight people died in sectarian clashes on Friday. The violence erupted as Shia Muslims staged a procession marking the religious festival of Ashura. Dozens of people were injured and many shops set on fi...