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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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2012-07-13 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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2012-07-18 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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2012-08-06 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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2012-04-23 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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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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2010-06-09 06:56:33     What Business Card? Just Scan My QR Code | Fast Company

http://www.fastcompany.com/...ness-card-just-scan-my-qr-code

What Business Card? Just Scan My QR Code
BY Gina TrapaniTue Mar 16, 2010
QR code
Everywhere you look at the South by Southwest conference ...

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2010-06-09 06:46:39     Apple's iPhone 4 Screen Is Better Than Your Retinas | Fast Company

http://www.fastcompany.com/...phones-tech-cell-phones-design

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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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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2012-04-20 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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2011-09-12 09:11:10     Concerns that proposed 4G broadband network might disable GPS

http://www.go4awalk.com/...king-news-and-discussions.php?...

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

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2010-11-27 14:49:52     Smartphone app monitors your every move - tech - 26 November 2010 - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/...monitors-your-every-move.html

Jigsaw figures out what you are doing by monitoring your... microphone, GPS and accelerometer for patterns character... activities - and it could be set to send the results to ... sites.
More importantly, Jigsaw can log how active you are each ...

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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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2010-05-10 07:46:21     Novelties - The Ever-Widening World of Tiny Projectors - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/business/09novel.html

WAVING your hand to get the bartender’s attention may ...
Miniature projectors may soon have all kinds of new uses ...
Add to Portfolio
* Microvision Incorporated
... service industry, but also in video games and robotics.

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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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2010-11-27 14:50:07     Nokia's New "Situations" App Makes Phones Self-Aware

http://www.readwriteweb.com/...p_makes_phones_self-aware.php

Handset maker Nokia today announced the creation of an e... called "Nokia Situations" that can automatically adjust ... behavior for various situations and contexts. For exampl... shut off the ringer whenever you go into a meeting, with...
According t

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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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2010-02-07 12:37:40     Empowering People through Mobile Technologies in Developing Regions

http://www.slideshare.net/...hnologies-in-developing-regions

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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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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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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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2009-10-28 11:32:20     textually.org: Indian telcos give voice to the illiterate

http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/20.../013132.htm

Indian telcos give voice to the illiterate
knINDIAN_KIDS_wideweb__470x350,0.jpg Sending text messag ...
"... Since the urban market for mobile phones in India i ...
The solution is called Voice SMS. It is just like leavin ...
Some of the big operators —

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2011-08-15 15:12:39     Police kill mobile phone service to squelch protest • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/...ce_cut_mobile_phone_service/

In response to a threatened protest in its subway system... authorities temporarily shut down mobile phone service i... stations of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, known l...

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2008-08-05 16:28:06     Delivery Context Ontology

http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-dcontology-20080415/

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

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2009-05-20 11:13:08     Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0

http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/

The recommendations in this document are intended to imp... of the Web on mobile devices. While the recommendations ...
As discussed in the Scope document [Scope], One Web mean ...
Some services have a primarily mobile appeal (location b ...
It is likel

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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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