Monday, March 14, 2011

Google Alert - mobile phones

News8 new results for mobile phones
 
Wave the cost of a purchase with mobile credit card
NEWS.com.au
By Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson ANZ and Visa are trialling technology to turn your iPhone into a mobile credit card. Picture: AFP Source: AdelaideNow MOBILE phones are being used as credit cards in a month-long Australian trial announced today and touted ...
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Google Is Said to Ready Payment Test in New York, San Francisco
Bloomberg
The registers would accept payments from mobile phones equipped with so-called near-field-communication technology. The project would put Google in a growing field of companies experimenting with NFC, which lets consumers pay for products and services ...
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Web Overtakes Print For News As Mobile Phones Lead The Way
News One
... to a study done by the Pew and Knight Foundation. Internet sources are now only less popular than TV for news. About 47 percent of those were getting news from a smartphone or another mobile device, usually for quick info such as traffic and weather.
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Phone users' exposure to radiation injurious, say experts
The Nation Newspaper
Efforts are in the pipeline to ban the use of mobile phones by children under 12 in some European countries because of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) also known as electro-pollution. But Nigeria and Africa have not taken any strict action to address ...
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Microsoft Said to Stop Releasing Zune as Demand Ebbs
Bloomberg
(MSFT) will cease introducing new versions of the Zune music and video-player amid tepid demand, helping the company shift its focus to mobile phones, according to a person familiar with the decision. The company will concentrate on putting Zune ...
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Cell Phone Technology Meets Secondhand Goods
Patch.com
"Mobile phone apps are what the web was ten years ago. It used to be everyone had to have a web page now it's everyone has to have an app," Sheusi said. "I was trying to think of how the GPS ability on the phone could be used constructively. ...
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Emergency Alert System pushed
1590 KLIV Silicon Valley News
The county's disaster council developed the system in the wake of studies showing that more than a quarter of valley residents rely solely on mobile phones instead of landlines. The emergency messages will now be sent to mobile phones, and residents ...
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Supply concerns push up memory chip prices
Financial Times
Prices of dynamic random access memory chips, which are used in PCs, and the Nand flash memory chips that go into mobile phones, jumped sharply on Taipei's DRAMeXchange. Some analysts highlighted the risk that smartphone manufacturers could face supply ...
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