Alex Murdaugh sits in the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina. TNS In the ongoing legal battle surrounding Alex Murdaugh, the role of smartphone evidence and digital forensics has once again taken center stage. On Dec. 10, Richard Harpootlian and James Griffin, Murdaugh’s attorneys, submitted a 132-page appeal to the South Carolina Supreme Court,…
Smartphone in an evidence bag awaiting digital forensic examination. getty Screenshots of smartphone text messages have become a common feature in courtrooms, but their reliability is increasingly under scrutiny. A recent case involving eXp Realty founder Glenn Sanford illustrates that screenshots alone are not enough to prove text message authenticity. Sanford has previously submitted dozens…
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Some say they made the the right call by hanging up the phone. A principal in the valley says the Clark County School District is onto something with the new signal blocking cell phone pouches in the classroom. FOX5 spoke with that principal and a student on how grades have…
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — About 25 years ago, my family was vacationing in New Jersey, and my dad and I went golfing. On the way to the course, the car started acting up — the battery was dying. This was before the days of smartphones, so we relied on highway signage and good fortune to limp to…
Apple will ask a federal judge on Wednesday to dismiss the U.S. Department of Justice’s case accusing the iPhone maker of unlawfully dominating the smartphone market, in the latest Big Tech antitrust showdown. US District Judge Julien Neals in Newark, New Jersey, is scheduled to hear arguments from lawyers for Apple, and from prosecutors who say the…
Huawei Technologies Co.’s ambitions to create more powerful chips for AI and smartphones have hit major snags because of US sanctions, stalling a major Chinese effort to match American technology. Huawei is designing its next two Ascend processors, its answer to Nvidia Corp.’s dominant accelerators, around the same 7-nanometer architecture that’s been mainstream for years,…
AST SpaceMobile Inc., which aims to challenge Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the nascent market for space-based cellular service to mobile phones, has signed contracts with Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin and at least one other unnamed provider to launch dozens of its satellites into orbit. The Midland, Texas-based company will use Blue Origin’s forthcoming New Glenn…
Indonesia has prohibited the sale of Pixel phones, saying Alphabet Inc.’s Google has failed to meet domestic content requirements, according to a report by local media outlet Kontan. It’s illegal to trade Google Pixel Phones in Indonesia, even though an estimated 22,000 units have already entered the country this year through personal shipments or carry-on…
Upgraded yet? With the iPhone 16s now out, it seems many couldn’t wait for Apple’s flagship product. Sales in China, the world’s biggest smartphone market, are up 20% in their first three weeks compared with 2023’s model, a report today estimated. In response, Wedbush Securities said a “monster” fourth quarter may mean Apple adds some…
Sara Kuburic, an existential psychotherapist and author known on social media as “the Millennial Therapist,” told her 1.7 million Instagram followers last fall that she’d bought an “old-school” flip phone to use instead of her standard smartphone on weekends and outside of work hours. This basic model — known as a “dumb phone” these days…