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Researchers seek funds to study cell phone safety
News Scientists have long debated whether cell phones pose health risk and are now looking for money to fund research to help resolve issue.
Tags: Cellular phones, Children, public health, Wireless, radio frequency, researcher, health care, agency, radio, Cellular phones
Summertime in the age of Facebook
Blogs For Filipinos, the arrival of summer means going on a vacation, usually to the beach. As a kid, I always looked forward ...
Weirdest IT story I've written
Blogs In my almost a decade of covering the IT beat here in the Philippines, I've written different sorts of stories--some of ...
Fujitsu's futuristic phones
News At Ceatec, Fujitsu and the Japan Design Association honor the best mobile phone concepts.
Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Phone, cell phone, mobile, Ceatec, Japan, Fujitsu Ltd., college student, Smart phones
Philippe Kahn tries to strike a balance
News The former Borland CEO demos a motion-sensing technology that could be used, among other things, to help stabilize cell phone videos.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Conference, Cell Phone, photograph, Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple iPhone, California, Consumer Technology
Nokia faces challenge retaining smartphone lead
News Could the smartphone market spell the end of Nokia's cell phone dominance? Competition, especially from the likes of Apple and RIM, is tough and expected to get tougher.
Tags: Development/design, Symbian, Smart phones, Nokia Corp., Apple Inc., Phone, cell phone, U.S., mobile, handset
Booming gray market threatens cell phone industry
News Apple iPhone's official carrier in China is enduring meager sales, just one result of the expansion of global market for copycat handsets.
Tags: Smart phones, Apple Inc., MediaTek, Phone, cell phone, handset, China Unicom, Sales, handset company, China
M-Commerce's big moment
News Mobile commerce is gaining momentum as consumers get comfortable with ordering all sorts of products by cell phone and companies such as Papa John's watch sales climb.
Tags: Mobile commerce, Starbucks Corp., Phone, cell phone, mobile, Amazon.com Inc., M-commerce Driver, Papa John, Sales, M-commerce
Nokia exec talks Ovi platform
News Niklas Savander, Nokia's top services guy, shares his thoughts on everything from lessons learned from Apple to why the Ovi store still isn't available on AT&T's network.
Tags: Smart phones, Mobile applications, Nokia Corp., Apple Inc., Phone, cell phone company, Ovi Storefront, Ovi Store, Mobile Client, Market Category
A new set of rules for social games
News Playfish's US$300 million sale to Electronic Arts seems to spell good news for other makers of social-network games, but this is a fast-growing and messy niche filled with one plot twist after another.
Tags: Games, Gamer, Facebook, Offer, MySpace, Zynga, Playdom, Playfish, cell phone, advertisement
Nortel CEO said to be leaving soon
News Mike Zafirovski, who led the Toronto company into bankruptcy protection and oversaw the sell-off of wireless assets to Ericsson, will reportedly depart within weeks.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Components, Nortel Networks Corp., wireless asset, Cell Phone, bankruptcy, bankruptcy protection, Thomson Reuters Corp., Components, Wireless
Nokia's netbook gamble
News PC companies have already stepped on Nokia's smartphone turf, and now Nokia is taking them on in the Netbook market with the Booklet 3G.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Nokia Corp., Apple Inc., Phone, cell phone, laptop computer, Smart Phone, Device, Wireless, AT&T Corp.
Hay fever robots warn Japanese public about pollen
News Japan rolls out 500 robots that detect levels of pollen in the air so allergy sufferers can gauge the threat when headed outside.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Cell Phone, Bot, information company, Japan, phone, Tokyo, robot, CNET Networks Inc., Internet
More on mobile payment front: Boku steps it up
News Competing for market share with rival Zong and a few others, start-up says new partnerships give it access to 200 million new user accounts.
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, Snap, PayPal, Boku, Phone, mobile, Web 2.0, game company, payment
Researchers still uncertain whether cellular phones are safe
News Leading scientists gathering in Washington, D.C., this week say more research is needed to once-and-for-all determine whether cell phones pose major health risks.
Tags: Cellular phones, DNA, Conference, Wireless, researcher, scientist, health care, American Cancer Society, Cellular phones
