Sunday, 17 March 2013

Smartphone Apps

Smartphone Apps A Problem In Protecting From Child Predators
KWQC 6
Close to 58 percent of teens now have a smartphone according to a recent Nielsen survey. That's up from 36 percent in July 2011. With that comes access to hundreds of thousands of apps and plenty that can connect you with complete strangers. The ...
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5 Free Smartphone Apps That Will Earn You Money - My Money ...
Smartphone applications have the power to make our lives easier and often more enjoyable. Many also facilitate you earning money directly through your ...
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iPhone4S

Unjailbreaking iPhone 4S running iOS 6.1? - JailbreakQA
My jailbreak got kind of messed up, and I decided I just want rid of it. But I'm having trouble getting it to unjailbreak. I've tried downloading iOS 6.1 ispw and ...
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iPhone4s->iTunes: Kalender...: Apple Support Communities
iPhone 4S: Kalendereinträge werdem über iTunes zum iMac nicht synchonisiert. Vom iMac zum iPhone O.K.. iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1), iMac End of ...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21524077
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Mobile E-book


Google is launching an ebook line based on its augmented reality ...
By Laura Hazard Owen
Google's startup division, Niantic Labs, is launching a line of ebooks that tie into its augmented-reality mobile game Ingress. ... Google is launching an ebook line based on its augmented reality game Ingress. By Laura Hazard Owen. 19 hours ...
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Intel smartphone


Intel's Smartphone Market Bid and 2 Chip Stocks To Note Now | Wall ...
By info@wallstcheatsheet.com (Damien Hoffman)
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC): Current price $21.32. Samsung (SSNLF.PK) intends to release asmartphone powered by the open-source platform Tizen as soon as August, according to Bloomberg. Samsung is among 12 companies, ...
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Phones

Phones Are Boring
New Yorker (blog)
The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is the latest iteration of the most popular Android phone in the world—its previous incarnation, the Samsung Galaxy S III, has now sold over fifty million units—from, by at least one measure, one of the greatest makers of ...
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New Yorker (blog)
More American drivers distracted by phones than Europeans
Washington Post
Europeans who used their mobile phones while driving ranged from 59 percent in Portugal to 21 percent in the U.K., according to a report yesterday from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sixty-nine percent of American drivers surveyed ...
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Parents Paying For Cell Phones, Streaming Music Service Of Adult Children ...
Huffington Post
"Two in five parents of young adult children (18-35) pay for cell phone service for them," said Sue Shellenbarger, the Wall Street Journal's work and family columnist. "Ten to 12 percent pay [for] streaming music and video." It's undoubtedly a help to ...
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State cracking down on smuggled phones in Beaumont prison
Beaumont Enterprise
Senior Warden Michael Roesler explains a cell phone blocking system, left, at the Stiles Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system Wednesday, March 13, 2013, in Beaumont, Texas. The new technology is being installed at the prison to ...
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Samsung CEO: Nobody Wants Microsoft's Phones Or Tablets
Business Insider
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, J.K. Shin said, "Smartphones and tablets based on Microsoft's Windows operating system aren't selling very well. There is a preference in the market for Android. In Europe, we're also seeing lackluster ...
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Business Insider
Game of Phones has Samsung on Broadway
euronews
http://www.euronews.com/ Samsung's latest all-singing all-dancing smart phone has been unveiled - on Broadway, with a series skits to illustrate its features with actors and a full live orchestra - as the South Koreans challenged Apple on its home turf.
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Grand Forks To Deliver Emergency Notices To Phones
Valley News Live
The city says businesses, individuals with unlisted numbers, those who changed their number within the past year and those with cell phones as their main number should register online. People can register by going to www.GrandForksgov.com or www.
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Wardens will stifle cell phones in Texas prisons
Houston Chronicle
The McConnell Unit prison near Beeville in South Texas and the Stiles Unit outside Beaumont are the worst of Texas' more than 100 prisons for contraband phones. Prison officials are hoping a so-called managed access system that intercepts calls from ...
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GADGET INSPECTOR: Men think phone is first item people notice about them ...
New York Daily News
Men used to think it was their looks, their money or their height that people noticed first about them — but now they seem to think it's their phone. According to a new study, 61% of men said that their phone was the first thing people noticed about ...
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New York Daily News
e-Cycle now buying consumers' phones, tablets, too
Columbus Dispatch (blog)
The company purchases more than 150 types of mobile phones and tablets, then issues a check or PayPal payment to consumers within 48 hours of receiving a device. e-Cycle also provides consumers with a prepaid mailing label to send in their devices.
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Saturday, 16 March 2013

Mobile Protection

Webroot Introduces a Smarter Way to Adopt Endpoint and Mobile ...
Companies can now quickly and easily deploy Webroot SecureAnywhere endpoint and mobile protection services with a simple, straightforward licensing model ...
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Mobile Protection for Your Android Device
Lost your cell phone? Kaspersky Mobile Security will hide your confidential data from prying ...
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Security Intelligence for Mobile Suite - Webroot
The Webroot Mobile Security Intelligence Suite addresses the ongoing, evolving and increasingly dangerous mobile threat landscape. It offers mobile ...
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Avaya Boosts Security for Enterprise Mobile Collaboration
Avaya announced new security enhancements for enterprise collaboration, designed to protecttoday's increasingly distributed businesses that have remote, ...
www.avaya.com/usa/about-avaya/newsroom/.../pr-130313
Centier Bank Improves Banking Security with Mobile ... - DailyFinance
Centier Bank Improves Banking Security with Mobile-based Card On/Off Support New mobilefunctionality.
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Mobile Cloud


Carriers face challenges to compete in cloud computing services market
RCR Wireless News
Regardless, observers say that without a doubt telecom operators are shaking up the cloud computing market. Their presence in the maret will gain importance as cloud computing becomes more mature and ubiquitous, and as mobile cloud emerges as the ...
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Friday, 15 March 2013

Phones

The Future of Google (and Tech): Phones and Computers Are Converging
The Atlantic
The Future of Google (and Tech): Phones and Computers Are Converging. By Christopher Mims. Tweet Mar 14 2013, 8:50 AM ET Comment. A personnel change suggests Google is setting itself up for the moment when Android (for mobile) and Chrome (for ...
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The Atlantic
Science Proves That Cell Phones Are Annoying and Distracting
Forbes
If you find yourself irresistibly sucked into other people's cell phone conversations, don't beat yourself up too much. There's a perfectly scientific explanation for your eavesdropping ways. A new study out in the journal PLOS ONE finds that when ...
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BlackBerry Says Customer Has Ordered 1 Million Phones
Businessweek
The new phones, which run a redesigned operating system, are the linchpin of its comeback strategy. After pioneering the smartphone market, the company's global share slipped to single digits in recent years amid competition from Apple Inc.'s iPhone ...
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Cheap Chinese Android Phones Michael Standaert
MIT Technology Review (blog)
Liang's phones are the ultracheap kind. He builds them at several Shenzhen factories, like Shenzhen Guo Wei Global Electronics, a nondescript building that opened in 1991 as a manufacturer of fixed-line phones and audio equipment. At Guo Wei, young ...
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BlackBerry Partner Orders 1M New Phones
Fox Business
BlackBerry (BBRY) shares jumped more than 7% Wednesday on the news that an unnamed partner of the mobile device maker placed an order for one million BlackBerry 10 smartphones. The company said it marks the largest-ever single purchase order in ...
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New Boystown Barbershop Rings in With Taste for Unique Phones
DNAinfo
The owner of the new haircuttery at 3314 N. Halsted St., Greg Slade, loves buying unique phonesfrom the '80s and '90s. And land lines might be becoming the dinosaurs of technology, but Slade's thrifted phones are fully functional — and one phone ...
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VIDEO: 1 in 4 teens use phones to access Web
The Pew Internet and American Life Project
More young people have smart phones -- and they're often using those phones as the primary way they access the Web, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. How much should parents monitor? Watch the Associated Press ...
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New York pay phones' new calling
Salon
It features a touchscreen above ground that would let users send emails, get subway directions, and more — “a location tethered smart-phone,” they say — and a below-the-sidewalk component that would include a sensor to read weather data and a system ...
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Salon
Startup News: Disrupting Burner Phones and Brunch With Jake Lodwick and Bre ...
Betabeat
Bye-bye Burner Phone. A CallingVault number is the phone equivalent of your exclusive-to-Craigslist-Casual-Encounters email address. The virtual phone line provides you with a second phone number to send/receive texts and calls from your cell without ...
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Betabeat
5 features the new Samsung Galaxy S4 smart phone should have
ConsumerReports.org
Rumors abound about which features will adorn the Samsung Galaxy S4, the purported successor to the phone maker's flagship Galaxy S III. As you'd expect, Samsung has been tight-lipped about this highly anticipated phone, which is scheduled to debut ...
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Surface Tablet

Surface Pro: Ready for Business
PC Magazine
Microsoft's Surface Pro is designed to deliver an enterprise-class user experience in a tablet form factor. Joel Santo Domingo, PCMag's lead analyst for desktops and laptops, points out in his review of the Surface Pro, "It's one of the fastest ...
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iPad

Apple eyes wireless charging via the iPad's Smart Cover
CNET
iPad owners may one day be able to wirelessly charge their tablets without the need for a separate charging station. Published today by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Apple's patent application called "Integrated Inductive Charging In Protective ...
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CBS launches full-episode streaming for iPad, iPhone
CNET
For now, the apps are available to iPhone and iPad owners. CBS, which owns CBS Interactive, the company that publishes CNET, says that its streaming app will come to "all major mobile and tablet platforms later this year, including Android and Windows ...
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New Windows-powered tablets threaten iPad's enterprise dominance, claims ...
ZDNet
Summary: The iPad popularity is growing in the enterprise market, with 94 percent of the Fortune 500 companies either testing or deploying the tablet. But one analyst believes that companies should take a look at the new crop of Windows tablets.
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ZDNet
PayPal Debuts 'PayPal Here for iPad' for Small Businesses
Mac Rumors
PayPal yesterday announced an iPad version of its iPhone point-of-sale solution app "PayPal Here", boasting larger screen real estate and additional features like connecting to a cash register. TechCrunch notes that the app marks yet another milestone ...
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Mac Rumors
Bronx cop docked vacation time for undervaluing stolen iPad
New York Daily News
A Bronx cop has been docked vacation time for undervaluing a stolen iPad in a police report — a case that could have vast ramifications for city crime stats, the Daily News has learned. The News first reported in 2011 that Officer Damian McIntosh ...
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New York Daily News
iPad user says woman is taking self portraits with his missing iPad
The Denver Channel
Engstrom says the woman is taking "selfies" -- or self portraits -- with the iPad. "The wonderful person who snaked my iPad continues to take glamour shots of herself apparently unaware that they are backing up to my iPhone," Engstrom wrote on Facebook.
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The Denver Channel
Wow! Apple Inadvertently Reveals Possible Future iPad Design
Patently Apple
On March 14, 2013, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a rather ho-hum patent application from Apple about providing the iPad with better aligned components relating to the display and cover glass. Yet within this patent filing Apple's engineers ...
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MakieLab's iPad App For 3D-Printing Your Own Dolls Has 70K Designed In First ...
TechCrunch
A U.K.-based startup called MakieLab is making a bet that the rise of smartphones and tablets coupled with the decline of traditional retailers is making the iPad the right place to sell the toys of the future. And custom 3D printing will let kids have ...
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Auburn considers expanding school iPad program
Bangor Daily News
Every Auburn kindergartner received an Apple iPad last year and every first-grader got one this year. The program, unique for putting tablet computers into the hands of very young children, has drawn notoriety and controversy. Multiple Pathways Leader ...
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PayPal Here Takes On Square Register With New iPad Payments App
TechCrunch
After debuting its in-store mobile payments technology PayPal Here in the U.K. two weeks ago, the payments giant is announcing another set of news around the product: an iPad app. Not only is this the first iPad app for PayPal Here, but it's actually ...
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