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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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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 ...
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there were suspicions that the iPhone 4 had a super-high... Jobs just introduced it; the Retina Display.
While it's in many ways a standard LCD, with 800:1 contr ...
But that resolution, when used by new apps, will equal a ...

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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 ...

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 ...
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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.

The maker of the smartphone software that triggered a sn... called to account by a US Senator.
Senator Al Franken has written to Carrier IQ asking it t ...
Mr Eckhart claimed Carrier IQ software could log everyth ...
Carrier IQ said its software helped d

'Intrusion' warning over mini projectors
Mini projector
Mini projectors have been under development for a number ...
A miniature projector small enough to fit into a mobile ...
The projector, developed by the company 3M, is around 4c ...

New phone features 'baffle users'
Children using mobile phones, BBC
Setting up a new mobile phone is no longer child's play.
The complexity of modern mobile phones is leaving users ...
... ore new services if the technology was easier to set up.

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.

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

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

Broadband communications and Global Positioning Systems ... technologies happily used by many walkers as navigation ... the still essential map and compass.
And - as many smartphone users will testify - these two ...
But this could change if a new 4G m

The growing popularity of connected devices – especial... tablet computer, the iPad – are starting to change the... media. And with sales of these devices expected to be a ... otherwise lackluster holiday shopping season, everyone, ...
The Nielsen

The Delivery Context Ontology provides a formal model of the characteristics of the environment in which devices inte... or other services. The delivery context includes the cha... the device, the software used to access the service and ...
The deliver

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...
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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

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

Frost Ajax Library Logo The Frost Ajax library is a tool... development on constrained browsers, such as micro brows... phones or gaming consoles. It is intended to abstract th... the XMLHttpRequest object (XHR) or an equivalent ActiveX... therefore m

Google just released Google Currents (what's up with the... supposed to be "kind of" like Flipboard, except that it ...
Google also released an update to Google Maps some weeks ...
Google, here is the problem: If you cannot make the UI o ...

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

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

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...
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A recent iome survey into the social impact of mobile ph... the UK’s deep rooted emotional bond with handheld devi... mobile phones a vital role in our social lives. Almost a... respondents (31 per cent) confirmed they would feel “c...
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