Touchscreens are all that, and a bag of chips. Apple showed the world what we knew all along – touchscreens are essential to the smartphone experience, and everyone from LG to Nokia is jumping on the touch-bandwagon. The newest entrant into the touchscreen realm seems to be Sony Ericsson is going to try their hand…
Indian state bans mobile phones for teenagers 16 and younger
For the love of everything teenie-bopper and annoying, why would anyone even think of taking away a teenager’s mobile phone? Well, aside from silencing the incessant yapping and monthly-bill-destroying SMS text messaging, it seems that government officials of Karnataka, India have deemed “”prolonged use of [handsets] by teenagers” dangerous to their health. The Indian state…
Mobile phone use makes you retarded – but more focused
That’s it. How many mobile phone studies are we going to have to read about? Seriously, our mobile phones are starting to scare the beejeebus out of us. The latest study indicates that prolonged mobile phone use can lead to “slowed brain function,” but will also interestingly lead to “better focused attention.” The study, published…
Texting while driving could get you 2 years in jail in the UK
While we all know we shouldn’t send text messages from our mobile phones while driving, some of us keep doing to. Hack, we’ve even seen the poll results suggesting that 89% of American want to ban SMS behind the wheel, yet 66% of them have done it. On the other side of the pond, UK…
Cell phones are not dangerous to bees?
Ok, here goes another round of “cell phones are dangerous/not dangerous.” While mobile phones may still be able to affect hearing loss, cancer, and hospital equipment malfunction, it seems that the radiation from mobile phones is not responsible for killing honey bees. The Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) that has killed 50-90% of commercially farmed bee…
Mobile phones cause dangerous interference in hospital equipment?
Ok, we knew mobile could possibly be responsible for killing bees. They could be linked to cancer. Now it looks like mobile phones could interfere with a hospital’s critical care equipment – external pacemakers, syringe pumps, etc. Researchers from the University of Amsterdam researchers recorded nearly 50 incidents where mobile phones were used in close…
Mobile phones study links use to cancer – again
Here we go again. Yet another study finds that there may be a link between cell phone radiation and brain cancer. A new study, published by The Daily Mail, claims that as little as 10 minutes of exposure to radiation from your mobile phone can cause chemical changes in brain cells that can lead to…
Web-apps pose security risk – watch your back
Web-apps gained some considerable steam in the early days of the iPhone’s application development (we’re using the term application quite loosely here). It was becoming quite evident that anyone and everyone could easily build-out a web-app – and that’s where the potential security risk exists (iPhone owners should be all that more grateful for all…
Foreign brands dominate mobile phone market in China
Despite the increasing number of Chinese phones, foreign brands — Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson — still dominate the mobile phone market in the world’s fastest growing economy. According to CCID Consulting, the mentioned four handset makers account for more than 70% of all mobile phones sold in the first half of this year.…
China and India lead the globe in new wireless subscribers
When you have fully one-third (1/3) of the world’s population caged within your borders, you’re bound to be a leader in the burgeoning mobile phone market. Such is the case with China and India. Between them, they have signed up almost 200 million new wireless subscribers in the first quarter of 2007 alone. China is…