• 2015-02-03

  In 2014 American EA-6B (“Prowler”) electronic warfare aircraft returned to Iraq after a three year absence. The EA-6B were needed to jam the communications of Islamic terrorists (ISIL) who began overrunning Iraq in 2014. These EA-6Bs operate from a land base. EA-6Bs were to be withdrawn from ...

• 2015-01-29

  Lawmakers want to update distracted driving laws to nearly ban all use of smartphones by drivers. The current law bans texting while driving or talking with a cellphone up to one’s ear. But it is still legal to do other things, such as flip through Twitter and Facebook feeds or use GPS on a s...

• 2015-01-23

The fighting power of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), Tejas has been sharpened with the aircraft being equipped with an advanced electronic warfare suite (EW suite).The system was flight tested today in Bengaluru for the first time onboard the Tejas-PV1 combat aircraft, according to an announcement...

• 2015-01-21

  A man who had been checking his mobile phone while driving on a rural road, and thereby caused a horrific crash that killed 28-year-old solicitors’ clerk Rachel Titley, has been jailed for six years. Her devastated family agreed to the release of pictures showing the catastrophically mangled ...

• 2015-01-16

  New year, new law!! And you may have already broken it today just out of habit. Starting today it is illegal in Austin to use your cell phone while driving. The new law broadens an existing law that already bans texting while driving. The texting while driving ban was pretty specific so polic...

• 2015-01-14

  HONG KONG, China -- A Hong Kong company hopes to sell signal-jamming technology to block those irritating cell phone calls in hospitals, places of worship and restaurants. The technology, previously used by the military to thwart lethal missiles, has been modified by Hong Kong's Champion Tech...

• 2015-01-08

 The campaign to rid our nation's prisons of cell phones went to the next level on Wednesday, with a call from the Department of Commerce for intel on devices that can get the situation under control. The government is "seeking comment on technical approaches" to the problem, Commerce says."The...

• 2015-01-05

  Prisoners using mobile phones from behind bars will be cut off under plans to stop them running their criminal empires from their cells. Ministers are to compel phone firms to act by law to disconnect the mobile numbers of handsets used in jails across the country. It follows a warning from H...

• 2014-12-30

  Spectators will be banned from taking mobile phones to this year's British Open at Carnoustie, after complaints from players during the 2006 championship at Hoylake. "We have so far resisted the call to ban mobile phones on the grounds that it may be an inconvenience to the public," said Davi...

• 2014-12-26

  President of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) G. Parameshwara has welcomed the decision to ban mobile phones in the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council. Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, Dr. Parameshwara defended the Speaker’s decision to suspend Bharatiya Janata Par...