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Mobiles phones or a new way of payment
Very soon traditional wallets and credit cards will be unnecessary to pay for purchases in stores. In fact, experiments in Near Field Communication (NFC) are multiplying in Europe and more precisely in Nice which has been experimenting with a new system for the last year. The trial attempts to turn an iPhone or a smart…
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Are mobile phones dangereous for your health ?
Today, mobile phones are part of our daily life and our culture. But last month, a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association indicated that the use of mobile phones could alter brain activity. The report said it was unclear whether the changes in the brain activity after using the phone for…
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Mozilla Labs Concept- Seabird Mobile Phone
There are many phones out in the market right now and many more are in the design phase but none that compares to the design of the SeaBird. The future will consist only of Smart Phones and the future will have many phones like the SeaBird but if this phone comes out first then it…
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Microscope cellular phone
Music player, game console, GPS or camera, these are just some of the uses that we have made of our cell phones. The possibilities continue to expand and an American researcher has taken on the challenge of transforming our cell phones into medical tools. M. Aydogan Ozcan, an engineer from the University of California UCLA…
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Marathon Battery Life Mobile in India
Innovative ideas for targeting Indian customers from an Indian company called Micromax Micromax was a company set up in March 2008 and within 3 yrs captured over 7% of the Indian mobile market. Their growth has been mainly due to their innovative phone ideas that target certain niche needs of people. They have been giving people…
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Kinect + Nokia, how does that sound?
At first sight the idea makes our imagination fly because we normally associate Kinect with the Xbox, but if we think about a mobile phone approach we can imagine a broad number of things that could become possible. This year, in February Nokia announced their partnership with Microsoft in order to equip their phones with…
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Technology Development for Saving Mobile Energy
Since mobile phones appeared, the common problem of all phones, especially smart phones from generation to generation is that the user can only use the phone for one or two days because the battery life is so short. Just imagine if we are playing games or talking with friends and we are so excited with…
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4G Networks, are they real?
Nowadays many carriers in mobile industry are claiming to have 4G networks, nevertheless we should be skeptic about those affirmations and ask if that is true?, if they are ‘real’ 4G or is just a marketing trick to make us buy more expensive services and devices. In our experience and intuitively we expect from 4G…
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A hyperconnected life
The term “hyperconnectivity” (see below) refers to the use of multiple means of communication. For instance, if a person is using several devices and applications to be in communication it means he or she is living a hyperconnected life. This communication takes place in the cloud (Internet), where everything and anything capable of network connectivity…