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According to a report from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California may soon tax text messaging to help fund programs that make phone service available for low-income residents. The report says the tax would likely be a flat fee ad… Continue reading California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents
Prosecutors in South Korea say that Samsung’s latest bendable screen technology has been stolen and sold to two Chinese companies. “The prosecutors allege that a Samsung supplier leaked blueprints of Samsung’s ‘flexible OLED edge panel 3D lamination’ t… Continue reading Samsung’s Foldable Screen Tech Has Been Stolen, Sold To China
Google’s Project Fi mobile service will reportedly be adding support for Samsung, OnePlus, and iPhones. “More handsets from existing Fi partners LG and Motorola will also gain Fi support,” reports The Verge. “The iPhone experience is apparently ‘in bet… Continue reading Google To Open Project Fi To iPhone, Samsung, and OnePlus
A new study from Finnish research firm Rewheel has found that U.S. wireless consumers pay some of the highest prices for mobile data in the developed world. The mobile data market in the U.S. has the fifth most expensive price per gigabyte smartphone p… Continue reading US Wireless Data Prices Are Among the Most Expensive On Earth
Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ed Markey and South Dakota Republican Senator John Thune have introduced a bill on Friday that aims to ramp up the penalties on illegal robocalls and stop scammers from sending them. Gizmodo reports: The Telephone Roboc… Continue reading A New Senate Bill Would Hit Robocallers With Up To a $10,000 Fine For Every Call
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: For decades, health experts have struggled to determine whether or not cellphones can cause cancer. On Thursday, a federal agency released the final results of what experts call the world’s l… Continue reading Study of Cellphone Risks Finds ‘Some Evidence’ of Link To Cancer, At Least In Male Rats
The CEO of Samsung’s mobile business, D.J. Koh, said you’ll be able to use its upcoming foldable smartphone as a tablet that you can put in your pocket. While the phone has been teased and hyped up for several months, Koh stressed that it will not be a… Continue reading Samsung Says Its Foldable Phone Will Be a Tablet You Can Put In Your Pocket
“Linux runs the world, right? So we want to make sure that things are secure,” says Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman. When asked in a new video interview which bug makes them most angry, he first replies “the whole Spectre/Meltdown problem. W… Continue reading Greg Kroah-Hartman: Outside Phone Vendors Aren’t Updating Their Linux Kernels
In a study published in Science Advances, researchers in Drexel’s College of Engineering describe a method for spraying invisibly thin antennas, made from a type of two-dimensional, metallic material called MXene, that perform as well as those being us… Continue reading Researchers Create ‘Spray-On’ 2D Antennas
According to a new report from First Orion, nearly half of the mobile phone calls received in the U.S. next year will be scams. “The percentage of scam calls in U.S. mobile traffic increased from 3.7 percent last year to 29.2 percent this year, and it’… Continue reading Almost Half of US Cellphone Calls Will Be Scams By Next Year, Says Report