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Eighty percent of U.S. adults had Internet access this year, whether through a smartphone or a home Internet connection, up from 78 percent two years ago, according to the survey published Monday by the Pew Research Center.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Bill de Blasio is set to lift a longtime ban on cellphones in New York City public schools, ending a widely unpopular practice and bringing the city in line with other large school districts.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- AT&T Mobility says it's no longer attaching hidden Internet tracking codes to data transmitted from its smartphones.

LONDON (AP) -- As fallout continues from Britain's tabloid phone-hacking scandal, former News of the World news editor Ian Edmondson was sentenced Friday to eight months in prison for conspiring to hack the phones of celebrities, politicians and royals.

Apple has rolled out the iPhone 6, heavily touting its ability to easily make purchases and complete credit transactions, but a new measure of consumer enthusiasm finds the desire to make those payments via phone is seriously lagging.

More American households are ditching their old telephones: 4 out of 10 only use cellphones, a government survey shows.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a strong defense of digital age privacy, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police may not generally search the cellphones of people they arrest without first getting search warrants.

SEATTLE (AP) -- There are two ways to view the smartphone Amazon introduced to the world on Wednesday: It's either the latest in a long line of phones with fancy features many people will never use or a magic wand for shopaholics.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- One might be hidden in a cross on a church lawn. Others are disguised as a cactus in the desert, a silo in farm country or a palm tree reaching into a sunny sky.

New Jersey has doled out $300,000 in federal highway safety funds to local police, for a crackdown on illegal cellphone use spanning the entire month of April.