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Is the luxury market becoming more accessible through mobile phones?
We have all imagined what our life would be like if we were rich. We would probably own high quality goods, a magnificent house, a beautiful car and wear expensive clothes. The problem is that luxury brands are usually available to a restricted market that only contains the wealthiest people. Whereas the rich have no…
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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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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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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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(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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Unsociable through technology!
Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter have completely changed the way some people discuss and interact with their family, friends, the friends of their friends and all the people they are likely to encounter. Indeed, people communicate more frequently, at any time and from anywhere in all manner of ways including the exchanging of pictures,…
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Promotional messages increase appeal to smartphone owners
Promotional Messaging can be described as a marketing strategy developed by a business in order to promote a service or product. A promotional message can be brought to the public in different forms, such as on product packaging, in a television commercial, in a magazine or newspaper advertisement. But here we are concerned with a specific use of promotional messages…
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Budgeting applications
Imagine that you spent almost of your pocket money and it is still half of the month ahead of you. Have you ever been to a party and the next day you realized that your wallet was empty? Or maybe you are keen on going shopping and carelessly spending money? Has…
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Why are we spending more time on social networks with our smartphones than on our computers?
If you are a Facebook user and have a smartphone (Blackberry, Android or iPhone) it’s likely that you have forgotten that you also have a PC in your home or office. The reason is that most Facebook users spend more time connected with their cell phone than on their personal computers according to a study…
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A Facebook phone coming soon ?
According to The New York Times, Facebook has intensified its efforts to release a mobile phone in 2013, looking for ways to increase revenue in the mobile Internet. With Google soon going to finalize the purchase of Motorola Mobility, a constructor of mobile telephones and tablets, to counter the growth of Apple, Facebook, which missed its initial public offering last week, because of the over-valuation…