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The Telegraph has launched a new and improved version of its news application to help Apple iPhone users keep up with the latest headlines on the go.
In their own words:
New features include the ability to instantly share interesting stories or pictures via email, Twitter or Facebook at ...
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Now this is bad news. According to The Statesman , US cell phones are not immune from "robocalls".
The federal government has banned business telemarketing calls to cell phones. But an exemption in the law lets political candidates make calls to both land lines and cell phones.
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Ho-Hum. Another day, another study on cell phones and brain cancer. By Danish Scientists. This time:
There has been no substantial change in the number of adult brain tumours since mobile phone usage sharply increased in the mid-1990s.
[via the BBC ]
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Technology, they say, is bringing families closer together, with children cell-phoning, e-mailing and instant messaging their parents to a degree not possible in the days when communication meant a pay phone. However, technology has provided my husband, son and daughter with new ways to tune me ...
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Five years after the Bhopal disaster the gas is still poisoning maiming and killing people. On twitter the #bhopal25 hashtag is jumping, and Sunil Sinbad started a SMS campaign with the message:
This SMS came into your inbox uninvited. Just like the poisonous gas in Bhopal. You can delete ...
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This landed in my in-box from Clickatell , not as an insertion order (Clickatell is a longstanding sponsor of textually.org), but because my name is on their mailing list when they send out a new handbook. I'm including it here because I think it's a very clever marketing idea and extremely ...
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A Maryland groom has created a viral story storm after he interrupted his wedding last month to update his Facebook and Twitter accounts (twitter/ TheSoftwareJedi ) from the altar. [via Reuters and Infotainment ]
The ceremony is also a big hit on YouTube
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Images of the new Google phone surfaced this week after months of rumors, writes Live Science. It appears the phone is manufactured under the Google brand, will use an even newer version of Android than that of the Droid−the only...
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On December 9, an orchestra will play a live concert with only iPhones as instruments.
Students at the University of Michigan are learning to design, build and play instruments on their Apple smartphones as part of a course called " Building a Mobile Phone Ensemble " .
This course is ...
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Consumer traffic to Apple's App Store increased 57 percent during Thanksgiving week compared to the same period in 2008, according to new data issued by mobile ad exchange Mobclix . FierceMobile Content reports.
Mobclix reports that while games continued to lead App Store downloads over ...
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Three must-read articles published today on the future of journalism in an Internet world.
-- The Federal Trade Commission organized a two-day summit of media barons, editors, and bloggers, all talking about the future of journalism in an Internet world. Turns out, the future looks a lot ...
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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey pulled back the curtain on his new startup today called Square, a mobile payments company. mocoNews.net reports.
Square allows anybody with a cell phone or laptop that has a headphone jack to accept credit card payments using a small plug-in dongle, rather ...
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Do cellphones cause cancer? That question is about to be revived with the publication of a long-awaited study called Interphone . Given the public health implications, we can expect it to get a lot of media attention. But you should treat what you read and hear with caution.
[via New ...
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Spotted on boingboing , a video of Fiddler Tim O'Brien singing his song about the phantom phone call syndrome .
From the lyrics : You feel it vibrate, you reach for the cell. But no one's there, that's how you tell .
Related:
-- Phantom vibration syndrome
-- Ringxiety
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Millions of Indian mobile phones with no valid unique identification code have been blocked for security reasons. BBC reports.
Phones with no codes or invalid numbers are mostly cheap, unbranded phones.
Many phone subscribers said they were being wrongly penalised because they were not ...
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#red Show your support for World AIDS Day. On Twitter, from approx. 4 am EST (for 24 hours), include #red to turn your tweets the color red.
[via Google Blog Spot ]
Another way to show your support, download the First app to go Red for Bono: (Shazam)RED .
When you buy (Shazam)RED, ...
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According to The Economic Times , dozens of workers from Meerut who were employed in various tile production units in Dubai, have been informed through text messages that they were being fired.
The workers say at least 64 of them, all working in meltdown-hit Dubai, have been received pinks ...
