• 2014-12-17

  A Catholic priest fed up with mobiles constantly ringing and beeping during his sermons has installed a jamming device to stop phones from going off. Father Michele Madonna found his services in Naples, Italy, were constantly interrupted by jingling incoming calls and buzzing text alerts. He ...

• 2014-12-12

  Mobile phone signal blocking technology will go live in Scottish prisons within weeks, Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill has announced. Mr MacAskill made the announcement at HMP Shotts, one of two pilot sites for the technology. The move follows legislation allowing the Scottish Prison Servic...

• 2014-12-08

  Charles and Barry Pless argue that, with a quarter of crashes in the United States now attributed to mobile phone use, "we can't wait for perfect evidence before acting." Although there is still some uncertainty about the association between mobile phone use and risk of crashes, given the pro...

• 2014-12-03

  Educational authorities across the nation are embracing newly amended rules to prevent cheating on upcoming college entrance exams. On Tuesday, local educational and public security authorities in northeast China's Jilin province signed letters of commitment with the provincial government to ...

• 2014-11-27

  The Navy’s plan to play high-tech war games in Olympic National Forest has sparked much more protest than government officials expected. In response to a flood of negative comments and at least one emotionally-charged public meeting, the Forest Service has extended the time the public may com...

• 2014-11-26

  Flying overhead in a Cessna aircraft, the Justice Department may very well be sending a cellphone dragnet over your city right now. This plane will use an amplified cell signal that'll override the next-most powerful signal in your area, tapping in to your phone's automatic aim to connect to ...

• 2014-11-21

  Devices that jam cell phone communications are legal in Japan, India and some European nations. Will Canada be the next country to allow them? The country is considering a national proposal to allow the use in certain instances of cell phone jammers. Supporters of the technology say it preven...