Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Update: This ...

Handset manufacturers say they will increase support for micro-USB charging across their products due for Asian markets, as part of efforts to follow similar plans in Europe. From January next year, ...

Starting next year, Apple and other cell phone manufacturers will begin selling data-enabled phones in Europe that have standard for cell phone chargers. Marguerite Reardon Former senior reporter ...

Europeans might soon have an easier time finding the right charging cords for each of their devices. The European Parliament approved a measure Tuesday that would require all cellphones and other ...

The wireless industry’s Universal Charging Solution (UCS) initiative is a boon for the environment, handset makers seeking economies of scale, and most cellphone users.But for accessory makers and ...

Everyone who has a cell phone has, somewhere, a drawer filled with old chargers from long-gone handsets. Those days soon will come to an end in Europe, where all the top mobile phone producers have ...

Asian consumers will also stand to gain from an agreement inked between handset makers and the European Commission (EC) to develop a universal phone charger, since mobile manufacturers will ...

Here’s a useful gadget to keep all your gadgets charged up, the IonHub Universal charger. IonHub travel charger is a cell phone travel charger, an iPhone/iPod travel charger and much more! Ionhub ...

The movement toward adopting a universal cellphone charger — that is, one type of charger that's compatible with all cellphones — is becoming a reality in Europe as soon as 2010. Several major mobile ...

Cell phone makers Tuesday pledged to introduce a universal charger for handsets by 2012. Under the scheme, phone makers have pledged that a majority of new handset models will include the universal ...

It might be difficult to believe, but 17 different mobile phone manufacturers and mobile service providers all agree on something that will actually make your mobile life a little easier in the coming ...

The GSM Association announced the creation of a universal cell phone charger that will function with most mobile phones by 2012. The technology is based on the ...