DEL MAR, Calif. -- Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it.

Martin Cooper changed the world when he invented the portable phone. The Motorola company’s four-pound box has evolved into a ...

Martin Cooper changed the world when he invented the portable phone.

Martin Cooper, who changed the world when he invented the portable phone, says the communication revolution it sprouted has ...

He couldn’t do it without the cell phone. And half a world away, that suits Marty Cooper just fine. “There are more cell phones in the world today than there are people,” Cooper says.

"If someone has a concern in America, they should be able to voice that concern, but we've been restricted by federal law," ...

Sometimes people will talk, sometimes they won’t. But the president of the United States? In an almost unfathomable level of ...

PCMag conducted a survey of 2000 adults for its 'Tech Etiquette' survey. Findings show most are irritated by public speakerphone conversations, texting while having a conversation, and phone-use in ...

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Both the Healey administration and Attorney General Andrea Campbell are vocally pushing for statewide restrictions on student cell phone use in schools. The outlook in the Legislature is less clear.

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