SmartPhone

While many think a driver's license is an all-American birthright, young people have been gradually taking a pass on getting behind the wheel. And it's not just high gas prices to blame.

The nation's biggest telephone companies want you to believe that soaring cell phone bills are in our future -- if their demands for more wireless bandwidth aren't met. Is this a clear signal of what's to come, or just a lot of static?

Let's go over some of the items that will help shape the week that lies ahead on Wall Street: smartphones and software, discount brokers and airbeds, and would you like a side of fries with that?

A software glitch in some of Nokia's new Lumia 900 smartphones led it to offer a sweet $100 wireless bill credit. Since the handset only cost $99.99, you can do the math: It's free. Oh, and the easily downloadable fix? It'll be available Monday.

It's no secret that smartphones and tablets are changing the way retailers interact with shoppers. Here are five "thumb shopping" features and apps that experts say could soon reshape the way you buy.

Are you a conservative, pays-with-cash sort of consumer or a smartphone-wielding early adopter? As it turns out, what's in your wallet may say more about you than you think.

No crowds lined up for Sunday's debut of the Lumia 900 -- Nokia's new smartphone running Windows Phone. But Microsoft is betting billions on the $100 device -- and it has good reason to be optimistic.

In Rovio's boldest bet yet, the app developer behind the immensely popular Angry Birds franchise will be putting out 52 episodes of an animated Angry Birds series.

Mobile banking lets consumers easily manage their financial lives from anywhere, anytime, but plenty of people are a little wary about giving it a shot. Let DailyFinance help: Here's our primer on the mobile banking basics.

What could be easier than paying for something with a wave of your phone? Not much. But there are prices to be paid for the frictionless ease of mobile payments, and they aren't all obvious.