|
|
Articles tagged with: Personal and Smart
European Commission Issues Privacy Rules for Smart Chips
..he industry today. European consumers must be confident that if and when their personal data is involved, their privacy will be impregnable also in a changing technological environment. The Commission therefore wants RFID technology to empowe more
Related Tags: rfid, smartchips, european-commission, viviane-reding, life
Canadians Lag Other Countries in Mobile Phone Purchases
..es offering advanced features like e-mail, Internet, personal organizers and touch screens) has nearly doubled from 12 per cent to 21 per cent, a movement that is consistent with the global trend. The explosive growth of smart phones in Canada more
Related Tags: , iphone, text-messaging, bluetooth, itu, gps, tim, iden, touch-screen, tns, Canada
Survey finds smartphones transforming mobile lifestyles of college students
..unicating. In 2005, we found that 30 percent of students said they were annoyed at getting an advertisement, and that has grown to 48 percent in the most recent survey. What good is an ad if nearly half of your target market is not happy about more
Related Tags: sim, smartphone, eu, text-messaging, edge, smartphones, tim, instant-messaging, ims, USA
Turning Soldiers' Helmets into a Wireless Mesh Network
Imagine a platoon of soldiers fighting in a hazardous urban environment who carry personal digital assistants that can display the location of enemy shooters in three dimensions and accurately identify the caliber and type of weapons they are firing. more
Related Tags: sim, eu, ict, itu, edge, gps, wind, lte, ovi, iden, satellite, berkeley
Smart Phones Ring in Healthy Growth in 2009 Despite Mobile Meltdown
..expand their functionality via sophisticated add-on applications, such as personal information management programs. There presently is no industry definition for the smart phone. As the platform continues to evolve, iSuppli will refine its defi more
Related Tags: android, google, orange, 3g, windows-mobile, microsoft, nokia, sim, social-networking, samsung, apple, qualcomm, isuppli, ict, huawei, wind, ovi, lg, rim, symbian, operating-system, windows, widgets, google-android
Project Uses Cell Phones as Computers in the Classroom
..uite of tools developed at the University of Michigan, is being used to turn smart phones into personal computers for students in two Texas classrooms. Their Mobile Learning Environment includes programs that let students map concepts, animate more
Related Tags: microsoft, ict, verizon-wireless, verizon, texas, text-message, mp3, USA
Acer Planning to Launch Range of Smartphones
..ung told the Deutsche Press Agency "that some 300 million units of personal computers are sold in the world each year, but there are 1.5 billion cell phones sold in the world each year," "Acer wants to tap the middle ground betw more
Related Tags: smartphone, itu, netbook, acer, Taiwan
Mobile Messaging Revenues to Defy Economic Downturn
..ingly be a key way to interact with personal blogs and online services such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. This approach was very successful in the US where the operators have marketed multimedia messaging as a channel in their social networ more
Related Tags: sim-card, mms, mobile-messaging, sms, social-networking, roaming, arpu, twitter, ict, edge, driving, acision, outsourcing, mobile-broadband, dongles, mobile-advertising, text-messages, 3, backhaul, billing, opex, laptop
GPS-Enabled Handsets Expected to Bypass the Economic Downturn
..e location awareness will be synonymous with smart devices, a point where personal navigation, social spatial knowledge, and location-specific contextual information will be assumed handset capabilities." more
Related Tags: android, google, nokia, iphone, smartphone, apple, ict, edge, smartphones, gps, abi-research, blackberry, open-source, apple-iphone, chipsets