If you live in a house divided in the smartphone wars, where some members cling to their Androids while you relish the joy of your iPhone 5, you probably have a plethora of USB cables in your house ...

Alongside the iPad mini, Apple on Friday introduced the Lightning to micro USB adapter, a tiny dongle first available in Europe, to the U.S. market. Initially built and released in tandem with the ...

In 2010, the European Union introduced a new policy to require new phones sold in Europe to support charging via MicroUSB, in an effort to standardize charging systems across all mobile phone makers.

A couple years ago, the European Union looked at all of the hundreds of proprietary gadget chargers out there and said, “Enough. Let’s just agree on a standard so if I forget my charger, I can use one ...

To cut down on the amount of mobile phone chargers relegated to the garbage after a phone upgrade, in 2009 the European Commission reached a voluntary agreement with 14 major smartphone manufacturers ...

Apple is finally set to release an adapter that lets people use the common micro-USB-based charger with its iPhones. As the company unveiled its iPhone 4S on Tuesday, it also put the iPhone micro-USB ...

iPhone 5 owners in Europe can use existing Micro-USB cables to power and sync their phones via the new adapter. Lance Whitney Contributing Writer Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and ...

Craig is a reporter for Pocket-lint based in Toronto. He earned a diploma in journalism from Seneca Polytechnic and holds a Media Foundations certificate from Humber College. Craig previously interned ...

As new tech continues to favor USB-C ports over regular ol’ USB ports, an adapter is more crucial than ever. That’s why we’ve rounded up our favorite picks of hubs, adapters and dongles to keep you ...