• 2015-09-28

Drivers who use their mobile phone at the wheel will be targeted in a two-week police campaign. The Wales-wide crackdown urges motorists not to be distracted by answering their phone, reading a text or going online. More than 900 drivers were caught during last year's campaign. Officers will be carr...

• 2015-09-22

It's increasingly clear to the telecommunications industry that content distribution is going to need to push further out into networks, to try and relieve congestion on the moderately-constrained backhaul that connects cell towers. Content caching at base stations can help, but as an IEEE Fellow fr...

• 2015-09-16

Harris Corporation is to supply the U.S. Navy with advanced ALQ-214 radio-frequency jamming devices for its aircraft. Under a $97 million award from the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command, 46 devices will be provided for the service's integrated defensive electronic counter-measures program. The ALQ-214...

• 2015-09-06

KUALA LUMPUR: Signal jamming devices will not be deployed during the upcoming Bersih rally this weekend, says Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak (pic). "No, the issue does not arise," the Communications and Multimedia Minister told reporters here when asked if authorities would be using jamming device...

• 2015-08-27

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived on a two-day visit to Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday amid a complete shutdown and curfew-like restrictions in parts of the capital city. A strike to protest the visit, called by Kashmiri hard-line separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, closed sho...

• 2015-08-21

First (Other OTC: FSTC - news) , accurate tool from Ofcom shows signal strength and coverage blackspots for mobile phones across 2G, 3G and 4G on Vodafone, O2, EE and Three networks Mobile phone providers could be forced to come clean about the poor signal they provide many areas of Britain after a ...

• 2015-08-14

Technology should be used to jam mobile phone signals in prisons, an inspector at Britain's largest jail has said. David Jamieson, chairman of Wandsworth prison's Independent Monitoring Board, says illegal phones fuel prison drug trading, bullying and gang problems. Behind bars, phones can cost £400...

• 2015-08-06

The number of Internet users in China is continuing to increase, according to the China Internet Network Information Center. The center says in a mid-year report that by the end of June, there were 668 million Internet users in China. The report says nearly 49 percent of China's population now goes ...

• 2015-07-29

In August of last year, a 19-year-old pickup driver received 11 texts in as many minutes while traveling down a Missouri highway outside Gray Summit. The truck rear-ended a stopped tractor trailer at speed, which was then struck by not one, but two school buses, resulting in a massive, multi-car pil...

• 2015-07-20

These days, it seems that most Americans carry three things in their pockets or purses at all times: keys, a wallet and a phone.  But, in the not-too-distant future, you may be able to leave the wallet and the keys behind. The mobile phone is staging a coup. Some analysts say that within five y...