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Everyone's warned to silence mobile phones at press conferences with medal winners. So where was that rap tune coming from at Ryan Lochte's news conference after he won gold in the men's 400 meter individual medley?

From remote farms to rural health centers, one thing is transforming how even the world's poorest people live: the mobile phone.

Makers of mobile devices have begun releasing their earnings reports for the latest quarter. Many companies including Nokia and Research in Motion have been struggling to compete with Apple and manufacturers of devices running Google's Android software.

Celestica Inc.'s net income fell 48 percent in the second quarter as it prepares for the end of its relationship with Research In Motion Ltd., for which it had assembled BlackBerry phones.

Apple’s (AAPL) sixth iPhone is at least nearing mass production at this point, and as we all know, Foxconn’s factories tend to leak like a sieve in the months leading up to an iPhone launch. We’ve seen plenty of parts, including a fully assembled case examined on video, and now we may be looking at the next-generation iPhone’s …

Just in time for the start of the Olympic Games in London, passengers traveling between continental Europe and the UK via the Channel Tunnel will now be able to remain connected to the telephone and data networks through the tunnel 100 meters below sea level.

Leading Japanese mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo said Friday net profit in the fiscal first quarter to June inched higher on strong smartphone sales.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Talk that North Korea's young leader plans to reform the broken economy is already having an impact. It's helping send rice prices even further out of the reach of most families in one of the world's most under-fed societies. Seo Jae-pyoung, a defector who now lives in South Korea, spoke this week to a …

Nuance Communications (NUAN) has made some big-time improvements to its popular Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition software, including improved performance on Gmail and Hotmail and a new Android app that lets customers use their Android device as a remote microphone for the PC app. The new NaturallySpeaking 12 release, …

Esteemed hacker Charlie Miller, who made a name for himself embarrassing Apple engineers with his iOS hacks, has returned with a big, juicy target in his sites: the Near Field Communications technology used to send mobile payments over smartphones. Ars Technica reports that Miller showed off his latest smartphone hack at …

We realize there's only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today:

Sprint (S) on Thursday formally announced that it would soon offer Motorola’s Photon Q LTE, although the carrier has not yet specified a release date or pricing information. The new smartphone will have a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, a 4.3-inch display screen, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, …

The Tunisian government will sell off stakes once held by a relative of ousted strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in a mobile phone operator and a car dealership, a finance ministry official said on Thursday.

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Hacking experts have demonstrated ways to attack Android smartphones using methods they said work on virtually all such devices in use today, despite recent efforts by search engine giant Google to boost protection. Experts showed off their prowess at the Black Hat hacking conference in Las Vegas, …

The majority of new smartphone owners have chosen a device running Android as their first smartphone.

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's government is to auction off its 25 percent share in the Tunisiana mobile phone business, which is majority owned by Kuwaiti telecoms operator Wataniya. Offers must come only from financial companies and investment funds by November 2, Slim Besbess, a director at Tunisia's finance ministry, told …

KOLKATA, India, July 26 (TrustLaw) - Their eyes lined with black pencil and lips painted red, women in sequined saris line the labyrinth of squalid lanes that make up Sonagachi, one of Asia's largest red light districts in the old quarters of this bustling eastern Indian city. In front of open sewers, they chat on mobile …

Appcelerator and IDC have released another survey of app developers and this time they’ve found that Apple’s (AAPL) iOS is now clearly favored by app developers when it comes to the being the best operating system for selling enterprise apps. When asked by Appcelerator and IDC which mobile platform was best-positioned to …

Industry watchers often debate whether or not HTML5-based Web apps pose a threat to the massive ecosystems that revolve around native apps. According to a recent report from market research firm Strategy Analytics, the answer is a decisive “no.” Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) have built huge economies that revolve around …

We realize there's only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today:

(Reuters) - BlackBerry users can no longer use the official New York Times app to read news stories over their devices, in a fresh blow to Research In Motion, the maker of the smartphone once considered an essential tool for business professionals. New York Times Co, which publishes the prestigious newspaper, said it stopped …

TmoNews reports that T-Mobile will soon get a souped-up version of the HTC (2498) One X dubbed the One X+. The “+,” in case you’re wondering, refers to the handset’s Tegra 3+ chipset, a quad-core processor that clocks in at a very speedy 1.7GHz. TmoNews says that this super-fast new device will be available from T-Mobile sometime …

THE RESULTS: LG Electronics reported a lower quarterly profit as its mobile phone division sank to a loss, partly offsetting profit from LG's TV business.