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Over 200 cell phone photos are part of a New York art exhibit, which highlights how mobile devices are contributing to photography. Carriage Trade gallery in the Tribeca neighborhood showcases select powerful cell phone moments submitted by the general public, including local children and Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo, in its “Social Photography II” show, [...]
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Intel to Carve Mobile Niche
December 15th, 2011 
admin Intel is uniting its mobile divisions to boost sales and accelerate smartphone and tablet chip development as it struggles to find its place in the mobile market. The chipmaker Wednesday said it combined its mobile communications, wireless, netbook and tablet groups under a single mobile and communications entity. Mike Bell, a former iPhone team member [...]
Mobile Gift Cards Make Spending Easier
December 15th, 2011 admin Retailers are offering mobile gift cards, loaded onto smartphones, making shopping more convenient during the holidays. Consumers can enter serial numbers from select stores’ gift cards on their phones. When it comes time to use the card, they can simply turn on their phones and let the cashier scan the code that comes on the [...]
Mobile Devices to Challenge Print for Advertising
December 14th, 2011 admin Adults spend more time on mobile devices than with print media, highlighting challenges to attract consumers and boost ad revenue in new media. According to New York-based research firm eMarketer, adults spend more than one hour per day on mobile devices, while they only spend about 45 minutes reading print newspapers and magazines. This is [...]
U.N. Pushes Mobile Into Classrooms to Educate Poor
December 13th, 2011 admin The United Nations announced a program to bring mobile phones into the classroom, in an attempt to harness technology to further global education. The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, made its challenge before a summit of 200 worldwide experts, policy-makers, educators, academics and researchers, organized in partnership with Finnish-based Nokia, to explore [...]
Mobile Hotspots to Grow to $5 Billion Market by 2016
December 12th, 2011 admin The mobile hotspot market is expected to grow nearly tenfold over the next four years, according to ABI Research, as the need for data increases with the surging number of smartphones and tablets. ABI Research’s report estimates 7.1 million dedicated mobile hotspot devices will ship this year, with an end-user revenue value of $1 billion, [...]
Mobile Apps Pass 1 Million Mark
December 9th, 2011 admin Over one million mobile apps are available to consumers, pointing to efforts across all platforms to push out mobile software and compete in the exploding smartphone market. The total number of apps available for mobile devices surpassed the million mark Thursday, according to app-tracking site Mobilewalla. The count includes all four leading mobile platforms, Apple, [...]
Schools Play Key Role in African Mobile Revolution
December 8th, 2011 admin Local computer science instruction is growing in reputation at a Ugandan college, as the continent strives to empower its inhabitants with mobile technology. Dr. Venansius Baryamureeba is presiding over this movement at Uganda’s Makerere University, which he founded to instruct students in computer science. Baryamureeba earned his doctorate outside of Uganda but returned home to [...]
Samsung Expands to Keep Up With Growing Mobile Demand
December 8th, 2011 admin Samsung will build a plant to produce flash memory chips in China to meet demand for tablets and smartphones, retaining its dominance in components and underscoring growth in Asian markets. The world’s largest maker of computer memory chips revealed the plans to build the Chinese semiconductor factory in a regulatory filing, according to Bloomberg. The [...]
Verizon, Google to Team Up on Mobile Payment
December 7th, 2011 admin Verizon is negotiating with Google to include “Wallet” on its devices, rather than blocking Internet giant’s mobile payment service. “Recent reports that Verizon is blocking Google Wallet on our devices are false,” said Jeffery Nelson, a Verizon spokesperson. This contradicts earlier reports from Google that Verizon asked it not to include its mobile payment service, [...]
