As we depend on our cell phones more and more, the tools to peek into our phones are getting better. Local police departments across the country are investing heavily in this technology. And, with few ...

Here are some tools, high- and low-tech alike, to help everyone in the family manage their cellphone habits. It really helps if kids see that you are working to do better, too. Google’s Family Link: ...

Criminals are getting a lot smarter—and more aggressive—about attacking your cellphone. Mobile-specific attacks—from fake toll-road messages to AI-powered robocalls or virtual SIM-swaps that hijack ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Just about everybody has a cell phones and ...

Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment. Computer scientists at the University of Washington have used ...

Viewers of TV dramas don't focus on the technology behind how a forensics crime team tracks a terrorist or drug ring using cell phone data, but scientists at the National Institute of Standards and ...

New York — Civil rights lawyers and Democratic senators are pushing for legislation that would limit U.S. law enforcement agencies’ ability to buy cellphone tracking tools to follow people’s ...

Eclipse has released a new version of its Mobile Tools for Java project, an IDE for current mobile phones from companies like Motorola, Nokia, and Sony-Ericsson. Project lead Christian Kurzke works ...