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The vast majority of children with smartphones have no parental control or security settings in place according to a newly published survey.

According to the YouGov survey of 1,000 children aged eight to 15, almost half of those questioned owned a smartphone rather than an ordinary handset or no phone at all. One in five children said they had seen either Full Story

If you take your mobile phone when visiting a major shopping centre, there's a good chance that Big Brother is watching you.

The Daily Telegraph reports that four firms operating more than 30 major shopping centres across the country are using technology that tracks the movement of mobile devices. The aim Full Story

15 people have been sentenced to an average of six years in prison after being convicted of defrauding the taxpayer of £250 million through mobile phone sales.

The complex scam involved taking phones from the UK and moving them to Europe, before importing them back, thus registering them as free from VAT. The scammers then sold the phones and included VAT in the sale price, but didn't pass on this cash to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.

In some cases the Full Story

The proportion of Brits owning a smartphone has almost doubled in the space of 18 months. UK residents are now more likely to own such a phone than people anywhere else in Europe or the United States.

Communications regulator Ofcom found that as of August this year, 46% of Brits have a smartphone -- a Full Story

A new study appears to link mobile phone radiation to restrictions or even reversals on the effects of Alzheimer's. But it's far too early to say if the findings could be safely applied to humans.

The research at the University of South Florida began with the hypothesis that mobile phone use might worsen Alzheimer's. The project involved a sample group of mice that had previously been genetically altered to develop Alzheimer's for research Full Story