Wireless technology becomes outdated pretty quickly. Consumers ditch cell phones at a rapid clip, discarding their old devices for new ones that pack in more features and functions. Problem is, the ...

Phone upgrades continue to offer less, and we're keeping our phones longer than we used to. But whenever we do eventually upgrade to the next big phone, we're throwing an awful lot of our old ones ...

Miramar, Fla.-based cell phone recycler GRC Wireless Recycling has announced that it recycled more than 530,000 cell phones during the first quarter of 2008. GRC Wireless recycles cell phones for ...

Mobile phone users could be at risk of hacking, nuisance calls and messages or having their phone cut off due to little-known rules around recycling of old phone numbers, Which? warns. The consumer ...

Consumer champion Which? has discovered a number of risks associated with recycled numbers. Since there are only a limited number of 11-digit combinations that begin with the 07 prefix, mobile ...

Most retired mobile phones are left in drawers instead of being recycled, according to a global survey conducted by Nokia Corp. A mere 3% of the 6,500 people interviewed for the survey recycled their ...

When the latest upgrades come in, old and unused electronics like cell phones and laptops end up out of sight and out of mind. Whether they’re kept in a drawer or thrown away in regular trash bins, ...