Without downloading an app, millions of Californians and even tourists will automatically receive earthquake warnings to their Android cellphones under a deal announced Tuesday by Google and the state.
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Two Catalan separatist politicians filed a lawsuit Thursday against the former head of Spain’s intelligence agency and an Israeli technology company for allegedly trying to hack their cellphones.
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The city of Berkeley’s five-year battle with the wireless industry over cellphone radiation warnings came to a head Thursday before a federal judge, who will decide whether the city’s 2015 ordinance requiring retailers to provide guidance on avoiding radio-frequency exposure is pre-empted by federal law.
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The Supreme Court on Monday struck down an exception for government debt collection in a federal ban on robocalls, though it declined the invitation of a group of political professionals to strike down the ban entirely.
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The gunman in the deadly attack on a Florida military base last year had significant ties to al-Qaida, the FBI said Monday.
Read moreThe Supreme Court of Colorado ruled that a warrant permitting the search of a woman’s cell phone was constitutionally overbroad, given modern phones’ storage capacities and ability and hold the “privacies of life.” The woman, a university professor, was charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
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An attorney for a Mississippi man sentenced to 12 years for possessing a cellphone in jail said Friday he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case, after the state’s high court refused to reconsider the punishment.
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Cricket Wireless will go to trial on claims it deceptively lured customers into buying phones with lousy 4G service – but those customers must be prepared to “stand and deliver” on those claims in court.
Read moreThe Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that the seizure of a man’s cellphone records that police used in their investigation of his murder case was unreasonable and the lower court must now determine whether the man, convicted of beating and stabbing his former girlfriend’s stepfather to death, was harmed by the failure to suppress those records.
Read moreA former employee sued BYD Electronic America Corp. in federal court, claiming it aided and abetted his torture and beating in China in a dispute between BYD and a competing cellphone parts maker.
Read moreAttorneys argued before New Jersey’s highest court Tuesday that people should not be compelled to unlock their phones for law enforcement.
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A Texas plastic surgeon serving life in prison for a murder-for-hire plot does not deserve a new trial even if cellphone data showing he met with the hitman months before the murder was improperly admitted as evidence, Texas’ highest criminal court ruled Wednesday.
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A woman who sent her boyfriend text messages urging him to kill himself failed Monday to secure a review of her conviction by the U.S. Supreme Court. Three women who went topless at the beach were also turned down.
Read morePeople throughout the Canadian province of Ontario awoke Sunday to an alarming alert of an “incident” at a nuclear plant just east of Toronto — only to later be told the message was a mistake.
Read moreA man was properly sentenced to 12 years in custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections for possessing a cell phone in a jail where he was being held on a misdemeanor charge, the state’s supreme court ruled. The man claims his sentence is “grossly disproportionate” to the crime but it falls within the statutory range of three to 15 years.
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National Football League team owners and other high-level league officials will have to turn over eight years of cellphone records as part of a lawsuit over the Rams’ move to Los Angeles, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled.
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If you woke up Thursday to a weird text that seemed totally out of place, you aren’t alone. A mysterious wave of missives swept America’s phones overnight, delivering largely unintelligible messages from friends, family and the occasional ex.
Read moreAT&T will pay $60 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission claiming the telecom giant misled millions of smartphone customers by promising unlimited data plans before slowing down their data speeds.
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Donald Trump’s cellphone records show a call to a former “Apprentice” contestant on a day when she says he subjected her to unwanted groping, according to a court filing.
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