Friday, April 1, 2011

Google Alert - mobile phones

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Facebook Merges Mobile Sites for All Phones
PCWorld
By Daniel Ionescu, PCWorld Apr 1, 2011 6:39 AM Facebook is revamping the mobile interface of the site, as the social network announced 250 million people use the site via their mobile phones. Instead of having several versions of the site for ...
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Olympics phone coming from Samsung
Telegraph.co.uk
By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor 3:54PM BST 01 Apr 2011 Samsung is to make a special mobile phone for the Olympics that will use Visa technology to allow contactless payments. The phone, which will use "Near-Field Communications" (NFC) will ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Only Fools Use Hand Held Phones While Driving
Bay Net
Trying to use a cell phone – for conversation or texting – forces a driver's attention away from driving. Studies indicate that mobile phone conversations distract drivers and delay reaction time, which can cause and increase the severity of vehicular ...
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Bay Net
Is Windows Nokia's Lifeline?
TIME
The Finnish mobile-phone manufacturer that had once been able to comfortably claim that its distinctive ringtone was the most listened-to melody in the history of music is watching its dominance go up in smoke. Since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, ...
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Cell Phone Proximity to Hip Tied to Bone Mineralization
Doctors Lounge
Fernando D. Saravi, MD, Ph.D., from the National University of Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina, analyzed data from 48 healthy male adults to compare differences in right and left hip bone BMD and BMC between 24 nonusers of mobile phones and 24 users who ...
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German politician reveals six months of private mobile phone data
TMC Net
In late February 2011, Malte Spitz, a German Green Party member of parliament and privacy advocate, in conjunction with the German newspaper, Die Zeit, published an interactive map illustrating six months of his detailed mobile phone records between ...
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Liverpool students warned to be on guard after series of mobile phone thefts
Click Liverpool
Published Fri 01 Apr 2011 16:41 Merseyside Police is warning the city's students to be careful with their mobile phones, following a number of phone thefts in the city centre. Officers have investigated an number of incidents where phones have been ...
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BT to make landline-to-mobile calls cheaper 'soon'
ZDNet UK (blog)
By David Meyer (@superglaze), 1 April, 2011 15:26 BT has promised to make it cheaper for its customers to call mobile phones from landlines as soon as possible, after new mobile termination rate caps came into force on Friday. The Ofcom-mandated caps, ...
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Amazon Set to Make Mobile Pay Play
TheStreet.com
By Scott Moritz 04/01/11 - 10:02 AM EDT The online retailing giant is planning an in-store payment approach using mobile phones and near field communication (NFC) readers linked to cash registers to offer users the option to purchase products through ...
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Google wants NFC wireless payments to work
ElectronicsWeekly.com
NFC technology allows users to pay for low cost goods, such as coffee or train tickets, up to a value of £15 by passing their mobile phones over a proximity reader. In the UK, 02 plans to offer mobile phones with a built-in wallet. ...
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