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Goodbye TV, hello smartphone: Young Americans going mobile for news
The days of catching up on the news with a morning paper or breakfast show may be slowly drifting away. According to a new survey, Internet and mobile platforms seem to be leaving traditional news outlets in the dust.
America’s transforming news landscape has already left a sizable dent in the country’s newspapers – but the nation’s television news outlets may be under threat too, according...
12 million Apple iOS users' data spied by FBI
A hacktivist group associated with Anonymous claims it has lifted over 12 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) from an FBI computer and released 1 million of them as an archive. The leaked data includes names, phone numbers and addresses, but people still buy the spy-phone as if it’s the only phone on the market.
“During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used...
Nokia Is Finnished: Prepare For Bankruptcy
Yes, Nokia (NOK) the Finnish mobile device maker as we know it, is doomed for bankruptcy and reorganization. Many of us, of course, still refuse to see the writing on the wall and invest accordingly. Nokia, a one-time story stock, has been shockingly bludgeoned from $40 to today’s meager $2 bid that is a cut above the casino penny stock zone. On the road to zero, Nokia cheerleaders, such as...
Nokia closes all stores in Russia
Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has officially announced that it was closing all of its flagship stores in Russia. The most effective sales channels for the company now are the Internet and a network of major retailers and service providers.
According to Nokia’s representative in Russia, Lyudmila Semushina, the last single-brand shop will close in late July. The Finns will be developing...
Common diseases of Generation Digital
Getting rid of the plug and swapping landlines for cell phones, representatives of the Generation Digital will soon feel that they paid for the mobility with their own health. As the growing industry of mobile devices develops, the list of diseases that are typical for members of the “digital” generation is growing.
This is openly discussed by a Nobel laureate Dr. Devra Davis in her book...
Samsung overtakes Nokia, ending their 14-year reign
Samsung Galaxy Note: The poll showed analysts on average expect Samsung to have sold 88 million cellphones in January through March, surpassing the 83 million which Nokia sold in the quarter
Samsung ended Finnish phone maker Nokia’s 14-year leadership of the global mobile phone market in the first quarter of the year, outselling the struggling handset maker for the first time ever.
It’s...
Samsung Galaxy S3 to launch in April
Samsung Galaxy Note: The new S3 has a bigger screen, closer to the mid-sized Note tablet/phone. It will also have a quad-core processor when it launches in April, say several reports
Samsung’s Galaxy S3 will go on sale in April – and will launch in the UK first as part of a tie-in with the Olympics this year.
The hi-tech handset is the follow-up to one of the most iconic Android smartphones...
Nokia Tests Solar Power For Cell Phones
Petteri Alinikula, Nokia's Head of Product Sustainability and one of the testers in action on the Baltic Sea.
Finnish cell phone giant Nokia is on a mission to find out how to apply solar power technology to cell phone technology.
The company started a project in June called Nokia Solar Charging Project which is coming to its conclusion at the end of September. It sent a group of people on the...
Brain cancer could soar 20-fold in 20 years because of mobile phones
Two weeks ago, the World Health Organisation warned for the first time that mobile phones may cause cancer – urging users to limit their use.
The warning followed Interphone’s research from 13 countries that found that the even just using a phone for 15 minutes a day could substantially increase the risk of a brain tumour.
But it could come to late for many mobile addicts, as it takes...
Non-ionizing radiation from cell phones may cause cancer
A branch of the World Health Organization announced Tuesday cell phones are “possible carcinogens” a statement that was met with skepticism from many American cancer experts.
The statement came from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which convened 30 international experts in Lyon, France, this past week to sort through data on cell phone safety, reports Lancaster Eagle Gazette.
The...
Mobile phones powered by the mind take hands-free to a new level
(Brain) cell phone: Researchers in California have created a way to place a call on a mobile phone using just your thoughts.
It seems even dialling a mobile number is becoming too time consuming for our fast-paced time precious society.
But researchers in America have come up with a solution – a mobile phone which uses the power of thought to make a call – and you do not have to lift a...
Nokia Windows Phone 7 concept revealed
Look what we’ve found! This is the first image you’ll see anywhere of the early fruit of Microsoft and Nokia’s budding new partnership. We have it on good authority that the technicolor phones on show are conceptual devices produced by the two companies. You shouldn’t, therefore, go jumping to conclusions about retail hardware just yet, but hearts should be warmed by the familiarity...
Universal phone charger just months away as mobile firms back micro-USB design
Waste: A universal phone charger will be available on all new handsets within months after the EC this week released technical specs for a standard design.
The days of frantically searching for the correct mobile phone charger are finally set to end with the release of a universal charger compatible with almost all new handsets.
The European Commission this week released technical specifications for...
Indian village bans unmarried women from using mobiles
A Kolkata slum dweller talks on a mobile in India, where the phones have become more affordable.
Council of elders feared women would use phones to arrange forbidden marriages.
An Indian village has banned unmarried women from using mobile phones for fear they will arrange forbidden marriages that are often punished by death, a local official said today.
The Lank village council decided unmarried boys...