Alexis Madrigal/Gartner
Add up the units sold by the world's hundreds of small manufacturers, and they grab a larger chunk of the market than almost all the big boys
Bell Labs
The unpublished technical memorandum that described an embryonic cellular phone network
Bell Labs
What does your phone have to do with 'cells' anyway? We help solve this etymological mystery
Kwei Quartey
As mobile devices proliferate, the already huge e-waste problem will grow, and with it, the cadres of kids who scavenge their metals
Apple
Computers haven't just gotten better over the last two decades, but radically more energy efficient
Phone Story/Molleindustria
A game illustrating the mining, child labor, and waste associated with electronic devices is deemed too crude for Apple's App Store
MIT Media Lab
A program from the MIT Media Lab empowers users to transform the cellphones, iPads, and laptops that usually isolate us into a collective viewing experience anywhere.
Reuters
The chair of the Taiwanese smartphone maker, HTC, told a Chinese newspaper the company was considering a different operating system
comScore/Rosen
We kick off our special report with a look at the cell phone industry, which is remaking our lives at home, in the office, or out on the town
Rovio
The avian projectiles aren't just taking out pigs, but costing employers perhaps $1.5 billion a year
James Fallows on Jerry Brown's second chance. Plus: the mystery of the second skeleton, how gay couples are getting marriage right, the end of the retail salesperson, and more.
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