Luxury carmaker BMW is launching a nationwide campaign to build awareness about the hazards associated with driver distraction, and especially the dangers of texting while behind the wheel. You’re likely to see BMW’s public-awareness commercial or online and print ads sometime this year. The TV...

The good: The Motorola Clutch i475 is a cute and compact messenger phone with push-to-talk capabilities. The keyboard is roomy, and call quality is good. The bad: The Motorola Clutch i475 only has a VGA camera and does not record video. Features are largely unchanged from those of its predecessor. The...

Cox Communications is backing down from its ambitious plan to build its own 3G cellular network, saying on Tuesday that it will decommission its infrastructure and use Sprint Nextel’s network to provide its subscribers with a branded mobile service. In 2008, the cable operator announced it would...

The Guinness Book of World Records has bestowed the honor of fastest-growing gaming system upon Apple’s iPhone 4, as well as noting that the App Store itself and several games in it also have set records. An estimated 1.5 million iPhone 4s were sold on launch day, far eclipsing any other gaming system....

Japan is home to some of the wildest mobile phones we’ve ever had the pleasure to read about. Every year at Mobile World Congress we spend a few hours at the booths setup by Japanese operators and end up crying like little girls because we know we’ll never, ever, get similar hardware out in Europe and...