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2015-01-22 18:20:39     Smartphones Don’t Make Us Dumb - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/...tphones-dont-make-us-dumb.html?...

Research shows that our intuition is wrong. We can focus... that we can’t may not be a phantom. Paying attention r... ability but desire. Technology may snuff out our desire ...

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2014-01-10 16:40:23     Case-control study of the association between malignant brain tumours diagnosed between 2007 and 2009 and mobile and cordless phone use

http://www.spandidos-publications.com/10.3892/ijo.2013.2111

This study confirmed previous results of an association ... cordless phone use and malignant brain tumours. These fi... support for the hypothesis that RF-EMFs play a role both... and promotion stages of carcinogenesis.

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2014-01-05 08:49:05     Twitter / calestous: Mobile Telephone System A made ...

https://twitter.com/calestous/status/419481535998197760

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2013-09-17 20:03:46     Fairphone | A seriously cool smartphone. Putting social values first.

http://www.fairphone.com/

Fairphone is a social enterprise. We started in 2010 as ... society, Action Aid and Schrijf-Schrijf, aimed at raisin... conflict minerals in electronics and the wars that the s... minerals is fueling in the DR Congo. The campaign and re... complex sup

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2013-09-05 11:42:44     We’re not ‘appy. Not ‘appy at all. | Government Digital Service

http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/...appy-not-appy-at-all/

We’re in the middle of a significant change in how peo... services. Use of mobile devices such as smartphones and ... exploding.
People should be able to use digital services wherever t ...
Here’s how government services have been responding to ...

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2013-09-01 15:10:36     About Us - OpenSignal

http://opensignal.com/about.php

With your help, we're creating a comprehensive database ... towers, cell phone signal strength readings, and Wi-Fi a... the world. Our goal is to become the global authority on...

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2012-12-10 20:08:27     Official Google Africa Blog: Understanding barriers to mobile Internet adoption in Kenya and Ghana

http://google-africa.blogspot.co.uk/...rriers-to-mobile.html

While mobile phones have become commonplace, mobile Inte... lagged. In 2011, for instance, mobile Internet adoption ... compared to 54% in Europe. We’ve been working to bette... nature and root causes of this dynamic. Earlier this yea... with iHub R

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2012-12-03 08:15:05     Here comes the first real alternative to iPhone and Android - Quartz

http://qz.com/...rst-real-alternative-to-iphone-and-android/

If you talk to enough people at the Finnish mobile start... point it occurs to you that the company it most resemble...
Sailfish, Jolla insists, will become a legitimate altern ...
“China… is the most dynamic smartphone market—it†...
Jolla canno

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2012-11-02 13:42:45     (84) Bluetooth Gloves - buy at Firebox.com

http://www.firebox.com/product/5611/Bluetooth-Gloves?...


New! Bluetooth Gloves
Bluetooth Gloves
Talk to the Hand

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2012-11-02 11:47:27     Summly

http://summly.com/

Summly's user interface is state-of-the-art with no butt... minimalist approach.. Press anywhere on a summary to rev... 'Summflower' which allows for sharing of summaries as su... saving of favourite summaries for offline viewing. Swipe... full articl

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2012-09-18 20:18:23     Ten... phones for seniors • Reg Hardware

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/08/18/ten_phon.../page2.html

Cycell Easyphone
RH Numbers
Brainchild of designer and entrepreneur Tom Sunderland, ...
CyCell uses a printer from the Japanese company Mimaki t ...
Cycell Easyphone

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2012-08-31 00:58:46     UW CSE News » “Wireless Charging Technology – One Step Closer to Reality”

http://news.cs.washington.edu/...one-step-closer-to-reality/

Intel today announced its intention to actively commerci... Charging Technology (WCT), which lets you charge your sm... from your notebook PC.
WCT was pioneered by UW CSE and EE professor Josh Smith ...

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2012-08-19 21:22:36     Battle for the lounge room

http://www.smh.com.au/...the-lounge-room-20120608-2006e.html

11:36PM Sunday Aug 19, 2012
1,220 online now
See today's paper
Subscribe
... ly design experiences to be the same on the all screens.

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2012-08-06 11:59:52     Com-Me – Community Media Toolkit

http://www.digitaleconomytoolkit.org/

A collection of hardware and software components providi...
The components of the toolkit include:
Com-Phone a multimedia narrative application for a m ...
Com-Tablet a tablet-based media repository and Com-C ...
... loads where applicable, are a

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2012-08-02 07:44:41     New GPS museum app launching in Victoria promises to reshape gallery-going experience | Arts | National Post

http://arts.nationalpost.com/...pe-gallery-going-experience/

Finding your way around a museum — or a mall or airpor... — is about to be as simple as using the GPS on your phone.
As of Aug. 1, the Royal BC Museum in Victoria will becom ...

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2012-07-27 16:28:49     Dickens London Trails iPhone app: money, marketing and mobile « The Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture

http://digitalrndfund.wordpress.com/...oney-marketing-mobil/

Dickens London Trails is an iPhone app that enables user... London as characters from Dickens’ fiction would have.... through the streets of London on a series of unexpected ... encounters. You also discover more about Dickens’ even...
Your guides

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2012-07-18 18:13:16     Empowering Technology: Mobile Phone Access Reaches Three Quarters Of Planet’s Population

http://www.dailymarkets.com/...arters-of-planets-population/

The World Bank and infoDev released a study yesterday ti...
“Around three-quarters of the world’s inhabitants no ...
Here’s an excerpt from the Executive Summary:
“With some 6 billion mobile subscriptions in use world ...
The developing world is

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2012-07-13 22:17:45     BBC News - Smartphone to help blind people goes on sale

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18818279

A smartphone designed for blind people has been launched.
Georgie, as the device is known, has a voice-assisted to ...
The phone was designed by blind husband-and-wife team Ro ...
It was named after Mrs Wilson-Hinds' first guide dog.

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2012-06-28 09:19:00     Apple and HTC in race to put light field cameras in your smartphone | Stuff magazine

http://www.stuff.tv/...ight-field-cameras-in-your-smartphone

Light field cameras – which let you adjust the focus o...
According to DigiTimes, Taiwan's Industrial Technology R ...
Apple is also investigating light field camera technolog ...
But there's a way to go before Lytro tech finds its way ...
Still, ther

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2012-05-18 11:34:00     BBC - Newsbeat - Bouncers 'checking Facebook on phones' as identification

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/17930370

Some bouncers have been demanding people hand over their... they can check Facebook accounts, Newsbeat has been told.
It's claimed that it is to make sure the person is who t ...

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2012-04-28 21:42:21    

http://research.swtch.com/qart

adding images into QR Codes

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2012-04-28 21:39:27     QR Code Usage In Japan « Blog

http://blog.cliffano.com/2009/05/18/qr-code-usage-in-japan/

Here’s a nice example. On one morning, I was walking t... via the underground pass, and I noticed a new Disney pos...
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Stitch. Notice the eyes a ...

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2012-04-23 18:41:36     HTC talks smartphone design: from inception to final product -- Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/...-from-inception-to-final-product/

An HTC phone starts out somewhere between four months an... reaching to the ABS block mockup stage. During this time... out the next best way to put the phone together, as well... best weight and the best components for certain models, ... size of the

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2012-04-20 14:01:20     Ofcom | A nation addicted to smartphones

http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/...on-addicted-to-smartphones/

New Ofcom research reveals the extent to which the UK ha... to smartphones, with people confessing to using them eve... dining table to the bathroom and bedroom.
Over a quarter of adults (27 per cent) and almost half o ...
Most (59 per cent) have acquir

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2012-04-20 13:57:05     Why the Mobile experience shouldn't equal desktop-lite - raymosley's posterous

http://raymosley.posterous.com/...-the-mobile-experience-sho

I was recently in a discussion where one person quoted f... conference that as a UX designer you should always offer... desktop" route on a mobile website because users can't a... they want on a mobile. If this sounds a common problem t... somewhere i

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2012-04-20 11:55:29     A Texas University's Mind-Boggling Database Of Teens' Daily Text Messages, Emails, and IMs Over Four Years - Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/...ges-emails-and-ims-over-four-years/

Marion Underwood calls her academic study, “The Blackb... title that would work equally well is “Panopticon, Jr.... four years, the University of Texas-Dallas developmental... professor has essentially wire-tapped 175 Texas teens, ... text messag

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2012-04-15 17:42:14     if:book: Back to the Future -- In honor of Encyclopedia Britannica giving up its print edition

http://www.futureofthebook.org/...awings_date_from_1982.html

These drawings date from 1982 (thirty years ago). Alan K... the Chief Scientist at Atari and he asked me to work wit... the work I started at Encyclopedia Britannica on the ide... Encyclopedia. We came up with these scenarios of how the...
The most in

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2012-02-15 08:21:41     Clear is a Simple List App With Big Potential for Multitouch

http://thenextweb.com/...nge-how-we-use-our-devices-forever/

Clear is hands-down worth picking up if you’re interes... and have any need for a simple list-making-and-completin... beyond its immediate worth, I think that it could signal...
It’s roughly five years into the multitouch revolution ...
I think tha

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2012-02-08 09:32:23     Microsoft's App Was Made For Walking — But Is It Racist? : NPR

http://www.npr.org/...-made-for-walking-but-is-it-racist?...

Microsoft is under fire this week over a patent it was g... dubbed the "avoid ghetto" feature for GPS devices. The n... to help pedestrians avoid unsafe neighborhoods, bad weat... terrain by taking information from maps, weather reports...
The word "g

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2012-01-07 10:20:05     BBC News - HTML 5 new target for cybercriminals

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16005053

Some of the threats for the coming year are lower-tech -... stickers placed over the QR codes used by firms to allow...
QR codes typically appear on posters. Once scanned with ...
Train stations, for example, use QR codes to allow passe ...
But cybercr

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