AT&T officially announced in August that customers on its new Mobile Share plans will be able to place FaceTime calls over its cellular data network. That move riled up a several groups, including Public Knowledge, Free Press and the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, which argue that AT&T is violating Net Neutrality rules by restricting how its subscribers can...
A Congressional inquiry looking into cell phone surveillance found that U.S. law enforcement made a gobsmacking 1.3 million+ requests for data from wireless carriers last year, says The New York Times. That alone looks huge, but when you consider that one request often covers multiple callers, the number of subscribers affected  could actually be much, much more. If a police...
T-Mobile issued an announcement that it’s changing up its smartphone data plans, effective Sunday, July 24th. First off, the Even More plans will now be known as “Classic,” and there are a whole host of new “Value” plans. Value offers a range of options for single users and multi-user accounts. Individuals can pair unlimited talk and text with 2GB, 5GB and 10 GB of high-speed data for...
Who doesn't know the agony of having a phone, laptop or tablet die at a critical moment? Given how charging up at a public outlet might be verboten now, I'm eyeing battery technology like never before. Seriously — we can do so much with our devices, and still our utility is shackled by an average three-to-five-hour window of opportunity? While this may take care of short outings, when...
We all tend to think of our cell phones as secure modes of transferring information, whether it be by voice, text message, email or Web browsing. The general consensus is hackers like to infiltrate our desktops and notebooks not our mobile phones. This is not necessarily the case as GSM technology is highly hackable. Last month, at the Chaos Computer Club Congress in Berlin, two...