The great locked phone debate
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Internet law professor Michael Geist makes the case for consumers' right to unlock phones without legal risk.
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âThe iPhone makes me mad,â proclaims Peter Svesson (AP Technology Writer). âNot, mind you, at the iPhone itself, but mad at cell-phone manufacturers who have saddled us for years with interfaces that lure us into labyrinths of menus.â Unlike cell phones with buttons that âcan mean âBackâ on one screen, âCancelâ on another, [and] âExitâ on a third,â iPhone âhas one button on its face. It always does the same thing: takes you to the top menu, where icons representing all functions of the phoneâmusic player, Internet browser and moreâare laid out in a clear manner. Wham, youâre out of the labyrinth.â That, Svensson laments, is âthe way it always should have been done.â
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Until federal regulators issued a landmark ruling in 1968, Americans could not own the telephones in their homes, nor attach answering machines or other devices to them. Now, a growing number of academics and consumer activists say it's time to deliver a similar ground-breaking jolt to the cellphone industry, possibly triggering a new round of customer options and technical innovations to rival the one that produced faxes, modems and the Internet....
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Cell phones in public are annoying--when other people use them. But how do we tackle the problem?
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Those who don't mind carrying a paperweight already have plenty of options for "smart" phones that do more than just make calls. The rest of us are stuck with a sad compromise between size and function.
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Cell phone owners will be allowed to break software locks on their handsets in order to use them with competing carriers under new copyright rules announced Wednesday.
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SUPREME COURT The Supreme Court is refusing to hear a challenge to the federal do-not-call telephone registry. Telemarketers have been trying to invoke free-speech rights to do away with the ban on unwanted phone solicitations.
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Consumers demand the best on their phones. Here's what they can expect.
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Baby steps Hands on I'll admit it. I'm an unashamed fan of the iPhone. I had an unlocked device in the UK running on my cheapskate Vodafone tariff before November's official launch.â¦
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Googleâs efforts to promote Android, an open and free platform for cellphones, is provoking rivals.
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Ups and downs with a music and messaging phone
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Plus: iPhone price cut, Google Phone rumors, and more.
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But censorware research is illegal, again The US copyright office will permit mobile phone subscribers to unlock their phones, allowing them to be used by rival network providers.â¦
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Here&#8217;s a nice overview piece &#8212; together with the requisite &#8220;who will win?&#8221; dramatic elements &#8212; from BusinessWeek, covering mobile search:  The emergence of Internet-connected mobile phones, or what&#8217;s known as the Mobile Web, is turning the wireless search business into a horse race&#8212;one that&#8217;s too close to call. Unlike its dominant role in search [...]
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Bridging the gap Workshop roundup The proliferation of mobile phones has led to a situation in which many professional workers have at least two numbers and two voicemail boxes to juggle.â¦
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Once attacked by Skulls, the only things the smartphones can do is make and receive calls. The anti-virus lab F-Secure said it had produced guidelines for users to help them remove the program and get their phones working.
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Techniques designed to make suspects incriminate themselves through calls or texts