UK people losing the power of speech
Much better to text
Britons are more attached to their mobile phones than ever before, but are not particularly interested in using them to talk.
HTC axes 1,500 people
Restructures business
Troubled Taiwanese manufacturer HTC has laid off 1,500 members of its staff as it continues to restructure its business.
Government pushes to ban smartphones in schools
Phoney war breaks out
A senior minister in Theresa May's fragile UK government said schools should ban the use of mobile phones.
ARM announces Cortex A76 for 7nm
Laptop class performance in 2019
Before we even start, we want to make clear that Cortex A76 - the successor of the flagship A75 today - is targeting both phones and laptops with a big focus and four times improvement in ML and AI performance.
Dr Peper claims smartphones more addictive than heroin
Harder to inject
Smartphones are more addictive than heroin and the world is falling to bits because kids are addicts, according to a new study.
US Justice Department has another go at cracking smartphones
Still wants to force tech companies to install backdoors to encryption
The US Department of Justice is refusing to give up on its plans to force tech companies to build tools into smartphones and other devices that would allow access to encrypted data in criminal investigations.
Gartner confirms smartphone sale's slide
Three year cycle is with us for ever
Beancounters at Gartner have added up some numbers and reached the same conclusion as everyone else that the smartphone boom is over and people will only start replacing them once every three years instead of yearly.
Mario Kart arriving on mobiles real soon now
Mario is driving onto your mobile drivers
Now that Nintendo has already released hits such as Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp and Super Mario Run on both iOS and Android, it's choosen to bring its signature death race to the market. Nintendo haa teased the next instalment of its mobile market takeover: Mario Kart Tour.
French want new words for “smartphone”
Something a little more French
The French always have a problem when it comes to English words entering their language and have been desperately coming up with something to replace those nasty roast-beef eating words which come from the world of tech.
Angry old men patrol Japanese train stations
Walking into smartphone users
Japan’s train stations are seeing a new form of vigilante – grumpy old men who don’t like people using smartphones.