Mobile Edge introduced the UrgentPower universal smartphone battery charger. The USB UrgentPower battery will provide immediate backup power and add up to 10 additional talk-time hours to virtually ...

Portable electronic devices have revolutionized warfare, but they've also burdened the soldiers with an increasing number of batteries that adds significantly to their load. To help lighten the load, ...

Is your phone, tablet, or laptop typically in the battery red zone before the day's end? These portable chargers and power banks give you the most boost when you're out of juice. I’m a mobile writer ...

Europe has worked for years to unify smartphones under a single charger — the common microUSB — with major companies expressing their support for the measure as far back as 2009 and getting the ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md (May 20, 2013) -- Consider all the pieces of technology you rely on throughout the day, both at work and at home, and how you are limited to the length of each device's ...

First, let’s clear the air: Optimate is not Optima. The former is a European-engineered brand of battery chargers; the latter is a maker of those red-and-yellow AGM batteries you’ve probably seen in ...

Have you counted the number of mobile phone chargers at your home with all kinds of pin patterns, besides the differently shaped power slots in different mobile phones. CHENNAI: Have you counted the ...

Now that we have a universal charging port for most electronics, thanks to the EU, we need the EU to do the same thing for smartwatches. Things are starting to get out of hand. Samsung arguably has ...

The maddening scramble to find the right charger for your smartphone could be coming to an end. European politicians have backed a regulation that will force smartphone makers to use just one type of ...

The European Union has said it will impose a universal charger for smartphones. The switch to a standard USB-C cable would represent a blow for US tech giant Apple. The European Commission on Thursday ...