Smart phones are fast replacing home computers for many daily online activities. But 39 percent of the more than 100 million American adult smart phone owners failed to take even minimal security measures to protect their phone, the latest ...
Tags: Smart Phone, Phone, Consumer Electronics
There are just about as many types of smart-phone users as there are phones. Understanding the kind of user you are will help you figure out how to strike the right balance between protecting yourself and getting the most out of your phone. ...
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Created by designers Ursula Lavrencic and Auke Touwslager the Cell Phone Disco?blends art, music and technology into a glowing red space of LED light. This?experimental art/light installation uses LED lights to bring the cell phone to life. ...
Six years after the sale of the first iPhone and 14 years after the first BlackBerry email pager was unveiled, smartphone shipments have outnumbered sales of other types of mobile phones, IDC reported late Thursday. IDC said 216.2 million ...
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The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year-on-year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 as smartphones outshipped feature phones for the first time, according to the International Data Corp (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone ...
Ignition interlocks have proven effective in preventing intoxicated drivers from starting their car, and now a new system is aiming to do the same for cell-phone users who talk or text behind the wheel. The system is called Origo, and it ...
US personal lines insurer Allstate has introduced its usage-based insurance device, Drivewise, in additional six states across the US, to help identify and improve driving habits of policyholders by delivering constant feedback. Available ...
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ubAlert LLC today announced the addition of the Android app on Google Play to its growing social network. The global emergency warning platform, which alerts users of the location and severity of real-time disasters, is already available ...
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T-Mobile USA hopes to rock the wireless industry today with detailed plans to sell the iPhone and other phones on an unsubsidized basis with no-contract, unlimited data plans The iPhone doesn't yet appear on T-Mobile's Web site, but a new ...
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T-Mobile is ending contracts and slashing prices for both service and phones, a refreshing change from the complex plans and high costs that irritate many phone users. That could save a T-Mobile customer several hundred dollars over a ...
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Sam's Club, the nation's eighth largest retailer, has launched the Simply Right line of quality and affordable vitamins. Replacing the Sam's Club Member's Mark line, Simply Right vitamins and supplements are part of the overall Simply Right ...
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Faster Web browsing and lower data use might be on the cards for Android mobile phone users if they download a new version of the Chrome Web browser offered by Google. The latest Chrome Beta for Android, which was made available on ...
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On Tuesday (Feb.26), Nokia CEO Stephen Elop hinted that the company is ready to launch a low-end Windows Phone with price lower than the Lumia 520 handsets. Lumia 520 priced at 139 Euros (about 1,140 yuan), and it may not be the cheapest ...
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U.S. market research company Nielsen released 2013 Mobile Consumer Reports, saying that smartphone penetration in China has surpassed the United States and the United Kingdom, but still after South Korea. According to the report, the ...
They are probably the biggest cellphone makers most people have never heard of. Despite ranking third and fourth in the global smartphone market in the fourth quarter, mention Huawei and ZTE to many Americans or Europeans and you're likely ...
Tags: Huawei, ZTE, phone market, China