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Tag: mobile phonesThe open platform calls for a different approach to security. The flashy cell-phone company is in a very tough business. Companies are finding novel ways to target advertising to your cell phone and television. Mobile Carriers See Gold in Femtocells If consumers buy in to private wireless phone networks, the industry could save money. An Israeli startup has made a modular mobile phone that can work on its own or slip into other electronic devices. Will it catch on? In 2007, life online continued to meld with life offline. The past 12 months have featured touch screens, context-aware gadgets, autonomous vehicles, and brain-computer interfaces. What Your Phone Knows About You MIT's Sandy Pentland finds surprising implications in patterns of cell-phone use. Researchers have made defect-free gallium-nitride nanowires that could replace bulky quartz crystals in cell-phone receivers. Nokia's Enpocket acquisition paves the way for contextualized mobile advertising. The W3C hopes that its new tool will help developers build websites that will work well on any device, be it a phone or a video-game console. Terabyte Storage for Cell Phones A nanotech-enabled device could replace the flash memory used in portable electronics. Samsung's High-Resolution Phone Display A new device offers a pixel layout that saves battery life and presents a sharper picture. Long seen as a threat to cellular carriers' revenues, Internet phone calling will be the basis of a new service from 3 Mobile. A Cell Phone That Spots Bad Breath Among a new phone's health monitors is a "halitosis meter." |
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