Verizon will pre-install a version of Skype Mobile on a few Blackberry and Android handsets this week, helping bridge traditional and internet phone service. But the full promise of mobile internet telephony is still to come -- perhaps in only a few more weeks.

NeuroPhone is the first step toward hands-free phone operation. A new device from Dartmouth College lets users select and dial a contact's phone number just by thinking about it.

Mobile phones should be fitted with porn filters to stop children accessing inappropriate content from their handsets, insists Professor Tanya Byron.

Nokia is trying to revive its declining US mobile phone business with new smart phones based on No

Microsoft has a lot riding on Windows Phone 7, the company's attempt to revive its mobile strategy and introduce an operating system that is more consumer friendly. With the move, the software giant is hoping to recapture momentum in a U.S. smartphone market dominated by Apple's iPhone and Research in Motion's BlackBerry, with Google's Android platform quickly gaining buzz. But Wharton experts ...