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Pedestrians walk past a Xiaomi Corp. Store and a Samsung Electronics Co. store in Mumbai, India.Dhiraj Singh | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAccording to research company Canalys, smartphone manufacturers shipped around 32.4 million devices in…

Years ago when I was having a picnic, I made a brave request among my friends. I asked if they would do me a little favor for the day and put their phones down while we hung out together. Instead of their phones, I handed out a pair of…

It's been a decade since Apple built Siri right into their iPhone software and made voice-activated assistant mainstream. However, the assistant is just one of the voice-controlled tools in your smartphone's ever-growing audio toolbox.…

Tim Cook (left) and Steve Jobs in 2010.Kimberly White | Getty ImagesIn 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone.Apple didn't invent the smartphone — companies like Palm and Blackberry had been selling them for years. But the iPhone introduced a…

WASHINGTON - A military branch of the intelligence community purchases commercially available databases of location data from smartphone apps and searches them for past American movements without a warrant. This emerges from an…

GUANGZHOU, China - Honor, the Chinese smartphone brand formerly owned by Huawei, has launched its first device since it was sold out. Huawei sold Honor, its budget smartphone brand, to a consortium of buyers in China in November to help the…