Tag: mobile phone

• Saturday, May 14th 2022 - 07:29 UTC

  Should a 12-year-old sign contract with parents to have a cell phone?

  

  A Twitter user who goes by the alias of “Judge the Ripper” launched a survey seeking approval for a measure he and his wife allegedly devised to buy their 12-year-old daughter a cell phone.

• Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 01:30 UTC

  Microsoft buys Nokia mobile phone business to focus on “devices and services”

  

  Microsoft has agreed a deal to buy Nokia's mobile phone business for 5.4bn Euros. Nokia will also license its patents and mapping services to Microsoft. Nokia shares jumped 35% on the news, whereas Microsoft's fell more than 5%. The purchase is set to be completed in early 2014, when about 32.000 Nokia employees will transfer to Microsoft.

• Thursday, February 24th 2011 - 03:37 UTC

  Using a mobile phone stirs brain metabolism, says US medical report

  

  Using a mobile phone for 50 minutes stirs brain metabolism, although the health consequences are unknown and need to be studied further, U.S. researchers said.

• Wednesday, February 16th 2011 - 19:12 UTC

  The mobile phone is the new PC anticipates Google CEO Schmidt

  

  The mobile phone is the new PC, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

• Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 - 00:13 UTC

  Chile’s telephone numbers revamped to promote competition

  

  New rules in Chile have shifted ownership of the telephone number from telephone companies to individuals for the first time ever. The legal change will enable customers to switch their service provider while retaining their number.