The teardown kings at iFixit have discovered that Apple’s new Verizon CDMA iPhone has a Qualcomm dual-mode GSM/CDMA chip under the hood. That means, as iFixit notes, “Apple could have supported GSM” ...

A researcher at the Def Con security conference in Las Vegas demonstrated that he could impersonate a GSM cell tower and intercept mobile phone calls using only $1500 worth of equipment. The ...

Computer security researchers say that the GSM phones used by the majority of the world’s mobile-phone users can be listened in on with just a few thousand dollars worth of hardware and some free open ...

Infineon Technologies aims to bring down the cost of building a mobile phone to around $15 by next year, a senior company official told reporters Tuesday in Bangalore, India. The Munich-based ...

Today I bring you a story that has it all: a solar-powered, low-cost, open source cellular network that’s revolutionizing coverage in underprivileged and off-grid spots. It uses VoIP yet works with ...