NEW YORK — A cafe customer fed up with cell phone chatter sits in a bubble of blissful silence as nearby patrons puzzle over dead handsets. A man tries to take a secret snapshot with his camera phone, ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Illegally imported signal jammers, which can block communication over cellular and Wi-Fi networks, are a growing threat, the Homeland ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — One Tennessee congressman believes it’s time to pull the plug on inmates using illegal cell phones to orchestrate hits, run drug rings, and manage criminal enterprises from ...

Until June, Vanderburgh County Sheriff Noah Robinson hadn’t considered the kind of havoc signal jammers could wreak upon law enforcement operations. That’s when his office discovered one in the back ...

A couple of years ago, a Florida man was fined $48,000 by the Federal Communications Commission for employing an illegal signal jammer during his commutes to prevent nearby drivers from using their ...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has issued warnings to 20 online retailers selling illegal mobile phone jammers, GPS jammers, Wi-Fi jammers and other signal jamming devices, the agency said ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...