mobile

Mass snooping fake mobile towers 'uncovered in UK'

Posted in Online on 10th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller

Fake mobile towers that scoop up data from passing phones are routinely being used in London, an investigation by Sky News suggests.

New tech keeps your smart phone charged for 30 percent longer

Posted in Hardware on 30th May, 2015
by Alex Muller

Invention captures wasted cell phone energy, feeds it back to battery.

NSA planned to sneak spyware onto smartphone app stores

Posted in Software on 22nd May, 2015
by Alex Muller

In addition to using these 'implants' for plain old spying, the agencies also intended to use hijacked phones to send bad information to targets.

The golden era of mobile video

Posted in Business on 9th May, 2015
by Alex Muller

Mobile video is having its moment, thanks to improvements in smartphone cameras, apps that are changing the way we consume media, and our movement to the second screen.

Lens turns smartphone into a basic microscope for only 3 cents

Posted in Science on 6th May, 2015
by Alex Muller

Researchers have created an optical lens that can be placed on an inexpensive smartphone to magnify images by a magnitude of 120 times.