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Mobile phone security: just how paranoid are you?
There was a time when your phone was just a phone, when we were more concerned about losing it than worried about what it contained. However that ship sailed a long time ago. Nowadays our mobile phones contain an almost inconceivable concentration of personal identifying information (PII); data that is coveted by all and sundry. The…
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Smartphones and sex; the state of play
We already have applications for almost every kind of sport; it is is the same situation for music, finance, the weather, photography indeed almost every kind of activity from hang-gliding to petanque, seems to be catered for somewhere on the numerous app stores. There is however one activity, a more intimate one, that is making…
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A glimpse of the Chinese mobile phone industry
World’s largest-to-be smartphone market Recent figures show that developed countries now have or will have very soon, over 50% smart phone penetration rates, including the USA which is the third most populous nation with 311 million inhabitants. On the other hand, China is still a developing country with poor 3G penetration rates estimated at 22% of the…
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Mobile Payment and Mobile Wallet are the real future of shopping
We already use credit cards and checks which reduce the need for actual cash, coins and banknotes our daily lives, now thanks to mobile phone applications young people are using even less! Most cell phone companies now offer mobile payment facilities. According to Adrian Kamellard, chief executive of the Payments Council. “The 2000s were the decade…
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Love on the net and on the phone – is it serious?
The Internet and increasingly, the mobile internet, plays an important part in our social lives. Anytime, anywhere, mobile Internet users deal all sorts of things. Naturally enough a smartphone will allow you to talk with friends but you can also shop, window shop, send flowers, pay bills, book tickets as well as work and study. As…
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The risky kiss
Do you believe in fate, in love at first sight? Do you sometimes do something spontaneously? Maybe you do, but you certainly do not expect your new partner to be your relative! Or imagine that there might be a tool somewhere that could warn you that you wre about to sleep with a member of…
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Biometrics: fingerprint recognition coming to a smartphone near you
Over the last few years we have seen on some Windows laptops, biometric sensors that recognize fingerprints. But if we are to judge by the forums users frequently have problems and more often than not they disable recognition. Will it be any different for smartphones companies who are attempting similar biometric checks? There is certainly…
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(jail) break the ice!
On June 11th 2013, Apple will be celebrating the first birthday of its iOS 6 operating system. Is there a better time to take a look at the numbers? What, for example, is current state of affairs between Apple and the jailbreaking community? According to Jay Freeman – a.k.a. @saurik, creator of Cydia, the main…
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Is your boyfriend or girlfriend cheating on you?
…its easy to know with mSPY !! Has your boyfriend or girlfriend received mysterious phone calls and refused to answer your questions about them? Have they been acting overly-cautious about their cell phone privacy? Have they recently changed their passwords on gmail and Facebook ? Any or all of these are likely to make you…
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Keyless access to your home
In some fields the world is moving forward really rapidly. Almost everything is being automated, and leading the field are portable computing devices like smartphones and tablets. Producers of new technologies, provide us with a wide range of mobile applications which now let owners control practically everything from a distance. It seems that there are…