The RAC has reported an increase in the number of people accessing the internet behind the wheel using their mobile phones.

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VIDEO: Rise in drivers using mobiles

Samsung Electronics overtakes Nokia to become the world’s largest maker of mobile phones and reports an 81% increase in quarterly profits.

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Samsung overtakes Nokia in phones

There is still no evidence mobile phones harm human health, says a major safety review for the UK’s Health Protection Agency.

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‘No evidence’ of harm by mobiles

Mobile phones running an operating system developed by makers of the Firefox web browser will go on sale in late 2012.

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Mozilla phone on sale ‘late 2012′

At 2 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, television programs and radio shows will be interrupted with a familiar message: “This is a test. This is only a test.” It will be the first time the Federal Emergency Management Agency has attempted to alert the entire nation at once with its Emergency Alert System. While the program hopes to reach as many people as possible as quickly as possible, two means of communication are still missing from the system: the Internet and mobile phones. Read full article > >

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Where’s an Emergency Alert System for the Internet and the phone?

Shares in Asian makers of Android mobile phones rise after Google decides to buy Motorola’s handset business for $12.5bn.

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Google deal boost for phone firms

A leading composer has called for people who use mobile phones during concerts to be fined. How do you stop them?

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How do you stop mobiles in concerts?

For many, young people playing tinny music to each other on public transport on their mobile phones can be intensely irritating. Why do they do it?

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Why do people play music in public through a phone?

The News of the World owner formally apologises in court to the actress Sienna Miller for hacking into several of her mobile phones.

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Paper ‘sorry’ for Miller hacking

A “serious” security breach allowed “huge quantities” of drugs and mobile phones to get into a prison on the Isle of Wight, a report reveals.

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Lapse ‘allowed drugs into prison’

Some of the biggest high street retailers are planning to allow customers to pay for goods via their mobile phones.

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VIDEO: Cash or mobile: What would you pay with?

Plans to allow teachers in England to search pupils for mobile phones and examine their content are called “reckless” by a teaching union.

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Union attacks school phone powers

The cost of calling mobile phones from other networks and landlines is set to fall after regulator Ofcom imposes cuts.

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Mobile firm charges cut by Ofcom

National Lottery operator Camelot is refused permission to allow consumers to use its terminals to pay bills or top up mobile phones.

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Lottery bill-paying move blocked

A study by the National Institutes of Health in the US suggests that mobile phones could have an effect on the brain.

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Mobiles phones ‘affect the brain’