Forty years ago today, senior Motorola engineer Marty Cooper made one very important phone call. From midtown Manhattan, Marty called Joel Engel, then the head of rival research department Bell Labs. When Joel picked up, Marty uttered something rather unexpected: "Joel, this is Marty. I'm calling you from a cellphone, a real handheld portable cellphone." Read More >>

CES is so close we can almost touch it, but Sony seems to have jumped the gun a little, leaking official press shots of the two phone/phablet things it's probably going to debut in Las Vegas next week. Steady on there boys, just a week more to wait. Read More >>

It looks like a prototype version of Sony's upcoming new flagship phone, the Xperia Yuga, might have leaked into the wild. A Russian site claims to have got their meaty paws on one, and have published photos to prove it. It's gotta be said, this looks like one serious beast. Read More >>

Virgin Media customers were just a little bit unhappy, after they were wrongly charged for phantom mobile data that they didn't actually use. It all boils down to a good old system error balls-up, apparently, but shows you've got to watch your bill like a hawk each month. Read More >>

The UK's largest mobile phone network could end up getting sold off, if rumours of an £8bn buyout hold any water. Apparently a couple of private equity firms, lead by an ex-Everything Everywhere executive, are looking to take over the network, which could lead to EE disappearing from the UK's airwaves. Read More >>

Apple can't seem to keep its new phones under wraps to save its life: there are leaked images; phones left in bars -- you name it, and an Apple employee has done it. So how the hell did Samsung keep the SIII a secret? Read More >>