Conflict is brewing in the mobile world over the adoption of a new, smaller standard for the SIM card — the chip in each GSM phone that dictates which network you connect to and your cellphone number.

Letter to standards group accuses Apple of having company representatives change their affiliation to skew the vote on the upcoming SIM standard. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News.

While most players in the mobile phone industry would agree that near-field communication is an up-and-coming technology, some remain divided over how it should be deployed. Near-field communication ...

Smartphones are susceptible to malware and carriers have enabled NSA snooping, but the prevailing wisdom has it there's still one part of your mobile phone that remains safe and un-hackable: your SIM ...

An example of a SIM card (top) and a nano SIM card Next week, two proposals for a new, smaller SIM card, dubbed nano-SIM–one backed by Apple and the other by Nokia, Research In Motion and Motorola ...

Want to squeeze your current SIM card into your brand new iPhone 5? Check out our DIY guide to find out how. Katie Collins Principal Writer Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer.