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Mobile Phones Cut Malaria Response Time From Weeks to Minutes
Using mobile phones to report malaria outbreaks in Africa has been stunningly effective -- reducing the government response time to an outbreak from four weeks to three minutes, according to a new study.
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Black market cell phones
Mobile phones are a big business. Unfortunately, stealing them is becoming one, too.
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Mobile phones help battle malaria in Africa
Mobile phones have cut the time needed to report malaria outbreaks in Africa from weeks to minutes, allowing more timely government responses, researchers say.
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Campaigns target voters through their mobile phones
Political advertising has gone mobile this election season, which means you're likely to see more political ads texted to you, particularly if you live in a swing state.
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iGR Finds That 59 Percent of Consumers Have Used Their Mobile Phones in the Bathroom in the Last 30 Days
AUSTIN, TX-- - iGR's latest primary research shows that most consumers really will use their mobile phones everywhere they go, including in the bathroom. At the beginning of May, iGR conducted a major ...
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Is ‘text speak’ partly to blame for the bad spelling?
Is speeling (whoops!) important? And should children be banned from using mobile phones in schools?
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Sony to phase out feature phones by September
Kolkata, May 23 (IANS) Sony Mobile Communications (India), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japanese technology giant Sony, has decided to phase out feature phones (non-smart mobile phones) by the end of September to focus solely on the fast-growing smart phone segment, a company official said Wednesday.
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Brentwood Gazette published Essex County Council members get free Blackberry phones
EXPENSIVE mobile phones incapable of being used to make or receive calls are being given free of charge to politicians at Essex...
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iPhone 5 Expected to Fire Up Mobile Market
Worldwide sales of mobile phones saw a 2% decline in the first quarter this year, but analysts expect the launch of the iPhone 5 to boost overall sales.
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Obama orders agencies to shift services to mobile apps
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, hoping to spur U.S. innovation in the explosive field of mobile communications, on Wednesday ordered all major federal agencies to make many more of their services available on mobile phones within the next year. "Americans deserve a government that works for them anytime, anywhere, and on any device," Obama said in a statement. ...
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