WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Disruption of cell phone service by a rare East Coast earthquake on Tuesday prompted renewed calls for Congress and regulators to provide a dedicated wireless network for emergency workers.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The hacker group Anonymous is taking on San Francisco’s subway system after the Bay Area Rapid Transit turned off cell phone service in stations last week to foil a different protest.

After wearing out Triple-A pitching, and general manager Bill Smith’s cell phone, Justin Morneau has finally received the green light to return to the Twins.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Foxconn International Holdings Ltd, the world’s top contract cell phone maker, said it expects a “dramatic improvement” in its 2011 results, propelling its share price to log the biggest gain in more than a year.

The microwaves that cell phones emit can interact with human tissue in an entirely new way, says theoretical biologist at a government lab If there’s one topic likely to generate spit-flecked ire, it is the controversy over the potential health threat posed by cell phone signals.

The microwaves that cell phones emit can interact with human tissue in an entirely new way, says theoretical biologist at a government lab If there’s one topic likely to generate spit-flecked ire, it is the controversy over the potential health threat posed by cell phone signals.

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) – In a mashup of 12th-century weaponry and 21st-century technology, employees of an area Google Data Center triggered a 6-foot wooden siege weapon this weekend with an Android cell phone, a computer the size of a credit card and a Blue Tooth receiver.

“Contactless” hardware lets phones and gadgets pay with a tap, but the coming plethora of apps that use it may confuse users. Soon you’ll be able to pay for goods in U.S

The “phonekerchief,” which blocks cell phone signals, might be the ultimate 21st century Thanksgiving place setting.

AP – Verizon Wireless could pay out up to $90 million in refunds to cell phone customers who were improperly charged for inadvertent Web access or data usage over the past several years.