Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Google Alert - mobile phones

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Divide Separates Work, Personal Life for Security-Conscious Android Users
PC Magazine
The days of having two mobile phones, one for work and one for personal use, are fading fast. However, your employer might still prefer to see some boundaries because how secure are company e-mails on your smartphone, anyway? ...
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Poor Cell Phone Etiquette?
WKRG-TV
by Lauren Styler Cell phone users are ruder than ever, according to a recent survey by Intel. The study says most people have poor etiquette when using a cell phone in public, and their manners are getting worse. NATIONAL - Mobile phones have become an ...
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Mobiles oust consoles
Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
A new survey of adults in the United States and United Kingdom has found one third of adults are played games on their mobile phones in the past month, and a quarter in the past week. The survey also found large increases in overall usage and frequency ...
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High cell phone taxes plague NYC
Crain's New York Business
The first wireless taxes were imposed in the 1980s, when mobile phones debuted. The taxes were a nonissue back then, because wireless phones were mostly a luxury of the rich. But as the number of US subscribers has risen to 292 million from just 200000 ...
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BLOWN OPPORTUNITY: Microsoft Gives Up On Sidekick (MSFT)
San Francisco Chronicle
Microsoft has given up on getting anything out of its $500 acquisition of Danger: it's shutting down the Danger service for T-Mobile Sidekick customers on May 31. Microsoft bought Danger in early 2008 to inject some life into its mobile phone strategy ...
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Potraz cuts off unregistered users
NewsDay
The directive to register all mobile phones was issued by Potraz last year with an initial registration deadline of August 31, 2010. Many mobile subscribers did not meet the deadline forcing the regulator to extend it to February 28, 2011. ...
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South Africa gets cell phone banking
GlobalPost
The key innovation: understanding how mobile phones are actually used in South Africa. Almost everyone in South Africa now has one, despite their economic standing. Cell phone penetration is estimated at 98 percent in the country. ...
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Survey: Cell Phone Faux Pas Irk Everyone
MainStreet
More than 90% of respondents reported a "pet peeve" about how people use their cell phones, laptops and e-readers in public, with three out of four respondents saying that "mobile manners" are worse today than they were a year ago. ...
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Funambol Releases mm4android as a White-Label Solution
TMCnet
By Deepika Mala, TMCnet Contributor Funambol, the mobile cloud company, launched the mm4android mobile cloud service for Android (News - Alert) phones and tablets. The users, through MobileMe-like Service for Android are allowed to sync contacts, ...
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Phone calls on planes? Bad idea
New Zealand Herald
In May last year Air NZ said its customer feedback showed passengers did not want people talking on mobile phones on international flights and there were no plans to let this happen. So why the change of heart for domestic flights? ...
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Insurers Slow on the Mobile App Uptake
Insurance Networking News
Some 61.5 million people in the United States carry smartphones—nearly 30% of all cell phone users, and that number is expected to grow. It is too soon to tell whether the rush to mobile applications will fundamentally alter insurance sales and ...
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Lack of IMEI controls doubles the import of Chinese mobiles in India
Wireless Federation
A recent report by the Indian Cellular Association (ICA) has revealed that imports of unbranded Chinese made mobile phones into India nearly doubled in 2010, despite a ban on most imports due to lack of IMEI controls. During the year, imports reached ...
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Clearance mobile Phones - Finding a clear path to the top
Prfire (press release)
By macy busson @ 1st Mar 2011 13:06:00 The field of mobile phones has turned out to be a place of quick and popular innovations. No sooner does a company brings something new than others follow the suit and there are dozens of brands flashing the same ...
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GDC 2011: Zynga with Friends' Thakkar On Transitioning from AAA To Mobile
Gamasutra
by Simon Parkin The proliferation of mobile phones is facilitating a rebirth of the indie game movement, one that is making up for a shortfall of innovation in the AAA video game space. This was the message from Vijay Thakkar, technical director at ...
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