Cancer Research UK has appointed games and software development agency Guerilla Tea, to develop the charity's first mobile phone game, to accurately locate new genetic causes of cancer, thus boosting potential new cures. Based on the ...
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Zact, the industry's first smart mobile service provider, today released details from a recent U.S. consumer survey looking at some of the hot topics and concerns parents are facing when it comes to mobile technology and their children. In ...
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The Irish telecoms regulator Comreg is planning to release one billion new phone numbers for machine-to-machine communications. The initiative will see phone numbers assigned to cars, industrial equipment and household appliances, such as ...
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Nokia sold 7.4 million Lumia smartphones in the second quarter, its best yet for sales of the Windows Phone devices, but still made a net loss. Net sales totalled a!5.70 billion (US$7.48 billion), down 24 percent year-on-year. The company ...
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As digital commerce extends into mobile technologies, growing numbers of consumers are integrating smartphones into their purchasing processes. This worldwide trend is moving fastest in certain emerging markets, where switched-on consumers ...
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Verizon Wireless became the first U.S. carrier to join the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group, but it is not clear whether it will eventually promote phones running the open-source Ubuntu OS on its network. Canonical, the company behind the ...
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The Visa credit card outfit has certainly got the retail scene abuzz with news it will launch a "digital wallet" in Australia by Christmas. The e-wallet, dubbed V.me, will henceforth store all your cards in digital form, probably on your ...
Nokia has expanded its mobile phone portfolio with the launch of Nokia 301 feature phone, with an aim to connect the next-generation consumers to internet. The new 2.4-inch handset features the "candybar" design and colour palette along ...
What is a flying cymbal? As a means of communication adopted by ancient fishermen, it is similar to the mobile phone today. In those days, when the fishermen went fishing on the sea, they needed to keep in contact and transfer information ...
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Some 1960s "plate glass" universities are challenging the big names Jul 6th 2013 |From the print edition Tweet..EVERY year newspapers and college guides rank British universities according to the exam results of the students they admit, ...
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has imposed a penalty of £2,834,700 against mobile phone insurance broker, Policy Administration Services Limited (PAS), for poor complaints handling of mobile phone insurance policies sold by ...
Global growth in IT spending is slowing, according to analyst group Gartner, which forecasts that total spending in 2013 will amount to $3.7 trillion, an increase of just two per cent on the $3.6 trillion that it believes was spent ...
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GaN LEDs set to top 100 billion units 25 Jun 2013 Shipments of the blue-emitting chips will reach new milestone this year, reports analyst company IHS. Analysts at the market forecasting company IMS Research (part of IHS) are expecting ...
The latest on-pack promotional campaign for Mexico's "king of chocolate" has turned to gold using Supastrip VDP tear ctape from packaging solutions provider Payne. The variable data printed tear tape was used to promote the unique codes ...
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Mozilla today shipped Firefox 22,enabling the in-browser audio-video calling standard WebRTC and switching on a new JavaScript module that promises to speed up Web apps. The update also included patches for 17 security ...