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Google is taking another swipe at Apple with an upgrade of its Nexus One mobile phone.

The SMS-based service enables buyers and sellers to hook up with each other through messages just like ebay does for Internet users. Soon, you will be able to buy and sell things using your mobile phone without using an Internet connection.

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 could make a big splash when it comes to market later this year. Here are some of the top things you need to know about Microsoft's new mobile OS.

Tim Farrell/The Star-LedgerJohn Abeigon, with daughter Alida, outside the T-Mobile store in Newark where they bought the Sidekick cell phone. T-Mobile threatened collections when the Abeigons wouldn’t pay for calls made after Alida canceled the service. John Abeigon got Bamboozled’s...

Police in the Isle of Man catch 15 drivers using their mobile phones behind the wheel, in a week-long enforcement campaign.

MELBOURNE, March 16 AAP - Jockey Danny Nikolic has been fined $5000 for failing to hand over his mobile phone to Victorian stewards.

Microsoft has released developer tools for the new version of its Silverlight platform and its new Windows Phone 7 mobile software platform.

On paper, it's a no-brainer: Prisoners have mobile phones they are using to run gangs, call friends, and intimidate witnesses. It's technically possible to jam the phones, but the 1930s law setting up the nation's telecommunications bureaucracy makes this illegal -- and a bill that would allow it is in legislative limbo.

To woo developers to build applications for its upcoming mobile phone, Microsoft scattered technology catnip throughout the MIX tech conference...

Can Windows Phone 7 devices mutlitask? Will all Windows Phone 7 apps have to be downloaded through the new Windows Phone Marketplace? Here are answers to some commonly asked questions about Microsoft's next-gen platform from the Mix 10 conference. by Mary Jo Foley