Smartphones users are spending a lot of time browsing social networks on their phones and Facebook seems to be their network of choice. A new study released today by digital research company ComScore shows that the average U.S. Facebook mobile user spent more than seven hours perusing the site via cell phone in March and [...]
AIDS related deaths account for close to 60% of all total deaths annually and mobile phone penetration has doubled over the last 10 years. It is for these reasons that the World Health Organisation (WHO) embarked on an investigation to determine whether mobile phone technology could be used to transform the delivery of health care [...]
Global shipments of smartphones in the first three months of this year grew 45% year on year to 146 million units, but significant country and regional differences were apparent, according to Canalys. Shipments in the USA rose just 5% year-on-year, in marked contrast to the 81% growth seen across the Asia Pacific region. Shipments in [...]
The project would provide 150 MTN motorized custom tricycles worth GH¢ 468,882.00 to physically challenged persons in high traffic locations across the country. The tricycles, powered by solar-enabled devices, would serve as sales points for airtime, SIM cards, and SIM and mobile money registration among others. Mrs Cynthia Lumor, Corporate Services Executive-MTN, launching the project [...]
In news that probably won’t surprise parents of text-obsessed teenagers, Canadians sent an average of almost 2,500 SMS messages every second last year, for a total of about 78 billion. That figure was up almost 40 per cent from 2010, when the texting tally hit 56.4 billion messages. Read the story at ctv.ca
Lookout Mobile Security and T-Mobile have teamed up to make it easier to find your lost phone — by letting the device literally scream for help. In the time since the two companies entered a partnership in 2011, T-Mobile Android devices have come preloaded with the Lookout Security & Antivirus app. Now, T-Mobile customers have [...]
This year marks its twentieth anniversary, and unlike practically every other technology, it’s hardly changed at all in two decades. To celebrate its astonishing impact upon the world, at Nokia Connects, has unearthed 10 astounding facts about the humble SMS. ONE. The father of SMS is Matti Makkonen, a Finnish engineer. He came up with the [...]
Also known as Flash-SMS, the Silent SMS uses an invisible return signal, or “ping”. Developers from the Silent Services company, who created some of the first software for sending this type of SMS, explain: Sending a Silent SMS is like sending a normal SMS, except that the mobile does not see the message it has [...]
Jobs are now just a phone away! A placement agency in Japan is using phone handsets’ global positioning system to quickly match workers to temporary jobs, doing away with interviews and other formalities. Read the article economictimes
The average auto refractor–that clunky-looking device eye doctors use to pinpoint your prescription–weighs about 40 pounds, costs $10,000, and is virtually impossible to find in a rural village in the developing world. As a result, some half a billion people are living with vision problems, which make it tough to read and work. Ramesh Raskar [...]
