CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — What do you want your cell phone to be able to do? Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Hal Abelson put that question to about 20 computer science students this semester ...

Over the past decade or so, smartphones have exploded in popularity and seamlessly integrated themselves into nearly every aspect of most people’s lives. Although that comes with a few downsides as ...

No one has managed to make a fully free software smartphone. Open-source and free software projects have had limited success. The problem is proprietary tech with no public documentation. Zoë Kooyman, ...

Cisco this week announced it is buying Orative Corporation, a maker of cell phone software that ties mobile phone users to corporate IP PBXs and messaging systems. Cisco will pay $31 million in cash ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. wants to become as influential in the mobile market as it is on the Internet — and the online search leader thinks it can do that without sticking its prized brand on a ...

Smartphone companies provide software updates on their devices from time to time. You get a notification of software updates on your phone after a month or two. But often people ignore this ...

CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--To optimize clinical manufacturing processes for innovators developing breakthrough cell therapies, Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced the launch of the Gibco™ ...

Sleazy men groping women on subways and buses is a problem around the globe but more so in Japan apparently. Japanese women are turning to cell phone software that will set off an audible alarm and ...

Key elements that drive a battery-cell tester. Three main architectures used to construct a tester. Battery-cell testers are commercially available at many different levels of performance. Performance ...

Clicks is heading to CES 2026 with its first smartphone built around communication, alongside a new Power Keyboard that adds ...