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Articles tagged with: Weather
Mobile Phone Towers Could Help Predict Flash Flooding
..el Aviv University say that they can use mobile phone towers to predict the intensity of weather derived flooding, before it arrives. They said that such a technique could have acted as an early-warning for New Orleans when Hurricane Katr more
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Grameen Foundation Launches Mobile Services Tailored to the Ugandan Poor
..a searchable database with both agricultural advice and targeted weather forecasts;Health Tips which provides sexual and reproductive health information, paired with Clinic Finder, which helps locate nearby health clinics and their more
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Global Mobile Industry to Lose $20 Billion in 2009
..nt experience, if they can possibly afford it. They would rather wait and weather the current storm, and then upgrade significantly when they can afford to, rather than compromise at their next purchase. New products in the market have re-invig more
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Alfa Installs Fifth Solar Powered Base Station
..ight, the solar panels will continue to recharge the batteries, regardless of the worst weather conditions that Lebanon might experience during winter time. The system has been designed to operate during the rainiest and windiest days especiall more
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Mobile Phone Towers to Monitor African Weather
A new partnership has been announced that will place weather monitoring stations on up to 5,000 mobile phone towers operated by Zain, and other mobile networks, across the African continent. The initiative is being backed by the Global Humanitarian Forum, Ericsson, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. more
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IBM to Invest $100 Million in Mobile Communication Research
..n via voice on cellphones. Content -- such as weather and ocean conditions, grain prices, advertisements, bus schedules, news, class schedules, product catalogues, health information and available services appointments -- is created and updated more
WIND Hellas - Budget brand continues to burgeon
The weather Investments-backed company WIND Hellas operates two brands in Greece, WIND and Q-Telecom. The combined customer total of the two was 5.27m at the end of Q1 09, a gain of 73k in the quarter and 687k in the year. Both of these figures showed improvements compared to the year-earlier figures of 59k and 418k respectively. On a proportionate basis, annual growth stood at 15.0%, up from 10.0% for the prior twelve-month period. more
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Orascom Telecom Q1 Down on Currency Devaluations
..ure OTH maintains a solid liquidity position that will allow it to weather the difficult credit market conditions without specific funding requirements." The company is also looking at other measures, including the possible stock market l more
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Hike in telecom capex expected in 2H09, though overall capex still down in 2009
..cycle. Despite this, the worldwide service provider revenue is expected to weather the economic storm and grow from $1.7 trillion in 2008 to $2 trillion in 2013. Fueled by currency appreciation on top of double-digit growth rates in native curr more
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Half of U.S. Mobile Phone Users Access Mobile Content on a Weekly Basis
.. is accessed for longer periods of time overall than utilitarian content (such as news, weather and sports scores). Behaviors fall out expectedly along demographic lines -- 80 percent of mobile social networking is among 12-34 year olds, while more
Related Tags: mobile-internet, text-messaging, smart, mobile-content, USA