Itsy-bitsy teeny cell towers are coming

Although I haven?t seen any breaking news stories on the dangers of catering to your children?s demands while driving, it seems not a day goes by without hearing about accidents caused by texting and driving. In response to a nation-wide awareness, and in some states bans, on texting and driving, cell phone companies are coming ...

Since the advent of the first, achingly slow-cell phone Web browsers a decade ago, smart-phone evangelists have predicted an impending golden age of the mobile internet. Your phone would serve as a mini laptop, the story went, not only enabling you to communicate through voice, text, and email, but also harnessing the Web to let you conduct business, decipher facts about your location, and entertain you along the way.

Kevin Parker submits: The mobile phone revolution of the last decade has been incredible. Who would have envisioned the phones we all take for granted each day 10 years ago? The innovation has primarily been focused on adding features to a device that was previously only used for calling. Browsing the web, playing media, tweeting, email ... these are all features we expect with our mobile phones today. The feature that has basically remained unchanged? Calling.

Unlimited data, once a consistent option among cell phone carriers, has been on the outs lately with the big dogs of wireless. But fourth-place carrier T-Mobile is hoping to win back some users — and market share — by offering a true unlimited data plan starting Sept. 5.

I just got my hands on the AT&T version of Samsung's new flagship phone, the Galaxy S4.

By Dana Blankenhorn: The whole problem with the U.S. Internet market, which underlies the U.S. Justice Department's case against the AT&T-T-Mobile merger, comes down to one word: Incentives.

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion said on Thursday it had given a solution that enables Indian wireless carriers lawful access to consumer services, but excludes access to corporate emails.