Mexican Billionaire Wants Probe of Activists

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim says protests by an activist group in the U.S. have the trappings of an orchestrated campaign against him and his mobile phone companies and is asking California to investigate the group.

wsj.com (59 minutes ago)

Proposed law would make reprogramming cellphone IDs a crime

Reprogramming the identification number of a cellphone could be punishable with a prison sentence of up to five years under the terms of a proposed law announced Friday. The Mobile Device Theft Deterrence Act of 2013 makes changing the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number in a phone a crime. The...

pcworld.com (1 hour ago)

Kaspersky says firms lose track of BYOD data

Small and midsized companies often don't have a clear view of the data held by their employees on their mobile devices, according to research from IT security company Kaspersky Lab. This comes despite a growing acceptance of the trend towards 'bring your own device' (BYOD) in the workplace. Figures from the research...

techradar.com (1 hour ago)

Facebook and Google enter bidding war for Waze app

Travel app Waze has found itself at the centre of a bidding war between Google and Facebook, according to new information. Waze, a community driven GPS social navigation app, is one of the main data suppliers for the rather-maligned Apple Maps. In January, it was reported that Apple and Waze were in takeover talks,...

techradar.com (1 hour ago)

Heathrow scare as British Airways plane makes emergency landing with smoke billowing from engine...

Mobile phone footage showed smoke billowing from one of the aircraft's engines after a speculated bird strike

mirror.co.uk (1 hour ago)

Leaked images show Android 4.3 on a Nexus 4 at a mobile expo

Two lucky XDA Developers Forum members ("challeen" and "innocent36") were at the right place at the right time (Thailand Mobile Expo 2013). They spotted a Google Nexus 4 on display, running Android 4.3 and decided to share their find with the eager tech-savvy world. As its About screen confirms, the device was...

gsmarena.com (1 hour ago)

Samsung's Day Of Reckoning Is Coming

Samsung announced today that it has sold 10 million Galaxy S4 phones in the first month.  This amounts to a rate of about four phones sold per second. JK Shin, CEO of the IT and Mobile Communications Division at Samsung, said, “On behalf of Samsung, I would like to thank the millions of customers around the world...

forbes.com (1 hour ago)

AT&T nabs exclusive Samsung Galaxy S4 Aurora Red variant

Few handsets are hotter than the Samsung Galaxy S4 right now, and AT&T managed to get their hands on an exclusive color that really shows off the heat. AT&T today announced an exclusive new color for the 16GB Samsung Galaxy S4, arriving online and in stores on June 14. Available for $199.99 with two-year...

techradar.com (1 hour ago)

Network transparency: How future mobile networks could be built in glass windows

As data demand grows we'll need to stick cells in many more places. Ericsson is exploring the notion of embedding small cells into windows and other glass surfaces.     

gigaom.com (1 hour ago)

Dish and Ntelos reach broadband partnership pact

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) - Satellite TV provider Dish Network and regional cellphone company Ntelos said Friday that they have agreed to develop a fixed-mobile broadband service within Ntelos' coverage area. Financial terms were not disclosed. The area in question covers customers in Virginia, West Virginia and parts...

pottsmerc.com (2 hours ago)

Verizon and AT&T grow fatter in America as mobile prices plunge in Europe

American consumers are sleepwalking into being permanently locked to ever-rising phone bills from monolithic incumbents. This is exactly the scenario that the government tried to avoid when it broke AT&T into seven Baby Bells in 1982. In France, the average mobile bill is now dropping by $7 a year. In America,...

yahoo.com (2 hours ago)

Dish and Ntelos reach broadband partnership pact

Douglas County-based satellite-TV provider Dish Network and regional cellphone company Ntelos said Friday they have agreed to develop a fixed-mobile broadband service within Ntelos' coverage

denverpost.com (3 hours ago)

Senator urges 'extreme caution' on Softbank-Sprint deal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An influential senator on Friday expressed strong concerns about Japanese company Softbank Corp's plan to buy 70 percent of Sprint Nextel, the No. 3 mobile service provider, warning it could expose the United States to more Chinese cyber attacks. "I have real concerns that this deal, if...

yahoo.com (3 hours ago)

Dell and Citrix share VDI push

Dell is tying its fortunes in the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) market to Citrix with initiatives to support the latter's XenDesktop 7 under the DVS Enterprise banner. It is launching three deployments to tie in its hardware with the management platform, saying that they can support mobile working and the use...

techradar.com (3 hours ago)

Four accused of robbing Boca T-Mobile store, pepper-spraying employees, and locking them up

Four Pompano Beach men, some of whom were already in jail for other alleged crimes, are now facing charges related to the robbery of a T-Mobile store in Boca Raton.

palmbeachpost.com (3 hours ago)

Market Extra: Pandora results draw higher Street targets

Several brokers boost price targets on Internet radio firm as mobile ads, new subscriptions drive results and improved outlook.

marketwatch.com (3 hours ago)

Eight displaced in Kent mobile home fire

Eight people safely escaped a mobile home fire in Kent this morning, according to Kent Fire Capt. Kyle Ohashi.Read more : http://blog.thenewstribune.com/crime/2013/05/24/eight-displaced-in-kent-mobile-home-fire/

thenewstribune.com (3 hours ago)

Two passengers arrested after RAF jets escort diverted Pakistan plane

Two men have been arrested after a passenger jet from Pakistan was escorted into Stansted airport by RAF fighter planes following a security alert. The Pakistan International Airlines plane took off from Lahore with 297 passengers people on board and had been due to land at Manchester airport at 2pm local time....

guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)

Senator urges 'extreme caution' on Softbank-Sprint deal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An influential senator on Friday expressed strong concerns about Japanese company Softbank Corp's plan to buy 70 percent of Sprint Nextel, the No. 3 mobile service provider, warning it could expose the United States to more Chinese cyber attacks.

reuters.com (4 hours ago)

Three words about Glastonbury – the winners

Earlier this month we challenged readers to submit a video giving us three words on the Glastonbury festival – with a pair of tickets up for grabs for the five best efforts (as selected by an independent adjudicator). The response was fantastic, and we wish we had far more tickets to give away to all those who put...

guardian.co.uk (4 hours ago)

New band of the day: The Orwells (No 1,519)

Hometown: Elmshurst, Illinois. The lineup: Mario Cuomo (vocals), Dominic Corso (guitar), Matt O'Keefe (guitar), Grant Brinner (bass), and Henry Brinner (drums). The background: Could we please be the first to instigate a Beatles v Stones-style face-off between the Strypes and the Orwells? We can? Thank you. The...

guardian.co.uk (4 hours ago)

Jerrold D. Green: Obama, Take Note: Wireless Revolution Is Coming in Myanmar

On Monday, President Thein Sein became Myanmar's first head of state to visit the White House in 47 years. His discussions with President Barack Obama focused largely on U.S. support of Myanmar's recent democratic reforms, as well as the very public challenge of continuing sectarian violence in rural areas of the...

huffingtonpost.com (4 hours ago)

Alexander Lebedev trial points to shadowy plot to seize his empire

Alexander Lebedev's trial in Moscow this week has been surreal. Twenty months ago the owner of London's Evening Standard newspaper punched a fellow studio guest, Sergei Polonsky, on a TV talkshow. Lebedev says he was provoked. The blow knocked Polonsky off his chair but the businessman was unhurt. Besides, such...

guardian.co.uk (4 hours ago)

Success In mHealth: Shifting Focus From The "m" To The "Health"

This article is part of an online debate series on mobile health by the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, Johnson & Johnson, the mHealth Alliance, Impatient Optimists and Forbes.com.

forbes.com (4 hours ago)

NatWest, RBS and Ulster Bank apps hit by glitches

Around two million NatWest, RBS and Ulster Bank customers found themselves unable to access their accounts via mobile apps for several hours on Friday in the latest in a series of glitches to hit the group's IT systems. Problems were experienced by customers trying to use all three brands' apps across a range of...

guardian.co.uk (4 hours ago)

Google May Double Down On Maps (And Mess Up Facebook's Plans)

(Reuters) - Google Inc is considering buying Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze Inc, which may lead to a bidding war with Facebook Inc, Bloomberg news reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Waze is seeking more than $1 billion and is fielding expressions of interest from multiple parties,...

huffingtonpost.com (4 hours ago)

Dish, nTelos to Develop Fixed-Mobile Broadband Service

foxbusiness.com (4 hours ago)

Why Waze Is Worth More Than $1 Billion

The Israeli mobile GPS startup Waze has another mega-suitor in Silicon Valley, with Google reportedly joining the bidding war and topping the $1 billion offer rumored to be coming from Facebook earlier this month. ...

yahoo.com (5 hours ago)

Bafta event: games writing discussion and Games Journalism Prize presentation

With a new generation of games consoles on the way, the industry is going to be under huge scrutiny over the next five months. But are specialist journalists doing enough to really investigate the major publishers and manufacturers? And what are the skills needed to write compelling and revealing long-form features...

guardian.co.uk (5 hours ago)

2 G.I. mobile homes destroyed in fire

GRAND ISLAND - A burning fence destroyed two mobile homes on either side of it.

journalstar.com (5 hours ago)