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Viral plea for smartphone from Romanian girl who wants to keep learning in lockdown

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Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 18:15:15 +0200

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To make smartphones sustainable, we need to rethink thermodynamics

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:00:00 +0000

The data centres servicing our beloved digital devices gobble huge amounts of electricity. A new way to think about heat and energy could help us meet growing demand without burning through the world's resources


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Very Young Kids Often Use Tablets, Smartphones, Study Finds

By www.medicinenet.com
Published On :: Sat, 9 May 2020 00:00:00 PDT

Title: Very Young Kids Often Use Tablets, Smartphones, Study Finds
Category: Health News
Created: 4/26/2015 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2015 12:00:00 AM


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Smartphone App Blocks Teens From Texting, Phoning While Driving

By www.medicinenet.com
Published On :: Sat, 9 May 2020 00:00:00 PDT

Title: Smartphone App Blocks Teens From Texting, Phoning While Driving
Category: Health News
Created: 4/27/2015 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/28/2015 12:00:00 AM


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Are Smartphones Helping or Harming Kids' Mental Health?

By www.medicinenet.com
Published On :: Sat, 9 May 2020 00:00:00 PDT

Title: Are Smartphones Helping or Harming Kids' Mental Health?
Category: Health News
Created: 5/3/2017 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/3/2017 12:00:00 AM


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College Kids May Be Learning, Even When Checking Smartphones

By www.medicinenet.com
Published On :: Sat, 9 May 2020 00:00:00 PDT

Title: College Kids May Be Learning, Even When Checking Smartphones
Category: Health News
Created: 4/27/2018 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/30/2018 12:00:00 AM


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Could Smartphones Be Making Migraines Even Tougher to Treat?

By www.medicinenet.com
Published On :: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 00:00:00 PDT

Title: Could Smartphones Be Making Migraines Even Tougher to Treat?
Category: Health News
Created: 3/4/2020 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 3/5/2020 12:00:00 AM


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Teenage Use of Smartphone Applications for Menstrual Cycle Tracking

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Published On :: 2020-05-01T01:00:46-07:00


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Hệ thống ngân hàng TPHCM thông báo thanh lý 29 nền đất liền kề bến xe Miền Tây Bình Tân

By batdongsan.com.vn
Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 11:27:30 GMT

Hệ thống ngân hàng TP. HCM trân trọng thông báo đến quý khách hàng. Phát mãi 39 nền đất và 10 nền đất xây biệt thự Bình Tân liền kề bến xe Miền Tây Aeon Bình Tân TP. HCM.Quý khách đăng ký để nhận thông tin và thời gian phát mãi tại phòng phát mãi tài sản (0901 679 578) chi nhánh ...


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Cho thuê mặt bằng Thương Xá Nhật Tảo, Q10, TPHCM 6m2, 65m2, 88m2, 270m2

By batdongsan.com.vn
Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:38:35 GMT

Cho thuê mặt bằng thương mại, shop, ki ốt tầng trệt của chung cư cao cấp Nguyễn Kim (Lý Thường Kiệt, Vĩnh Viễn, Nhật Tảo) gần 800 căn hộ cao cấp. Diện tích cho thuê từ 65m2, 88m2, 145m2, 270m2, kios 6m2/kios tại thương xá Nhật Tảo, P. 7, Q. 10, TPHCM. Thời gian thuê ổn định dài h...


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Chủ nhà chuyển vào TPHCM cần bán nhanh Shophouse Vinhomes Gardenia Hàm nghi, Mỹ Đình, Nam Từ Liêm.

By batdongsan.com.vn
Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 22:16:56 GMT

Do Villas 0983786378 - chuyên Biệt thự Gardenia, LIền kề, Shophouse, nhà Phố Vinhomes Gardenia, Mỹ Đình, Nam Từ Liêm. Chính chủ chuyển vào TP HCM cần bán nhanh căn Shophouse Vinhomes Gardenia Hàm nghi, Mỹ Đình, Nhà Phố Nam Từ Liêm: Diện tích 134.5 m2, mặt tiền 6m, cao 5 tần...


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To make smartphones sustainable, we need to rethink thermodynamics

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:00:00 +0000

The data centres servicing our beloved digital devices gobble huge amounts of electricity. A new way to think about heat and energy could help us meet growing demand without burning through the world's resources


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Software recreates a 3D model of your face from a smartphone video

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 14:00:45 +0000

A program that combines artificial intelligence and geometrical modelling can create an accurate 3D model of your face from a single 20-second video


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LG takes the wraps off its “Velvet” smartphone, priced in Korea at $738

By arstechnica.com
Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 18:35:54 +0000

It has a Snapdragon 765G, a headphone jack, water resistance, and wireless charging.


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Swiss soldiers pick up smartphones to fight COVID-19

By feeds.reuters.com
Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 04:38:55 -0400

In the battle against coronavirus, Swiss soldiers are using smartphones to test a new contact tracing application that could prevent infections while also protecting users' privacy.


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Apple and Google to harness smartphones for coronavirus infection tracking

By www.standard.co.uk
Published On :: 2020-04-10T19:29:00Z

Read our live coronavirus updates HERE Coronavirus: The symptoms


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Smartphone app to help ease coronavirus lockdown 'should be ready in three weeks'

By www.standard.co.uk
Published On :: 2020-04-28T14:37:14Z

A smartphone app designed to help curb the spread of coronavirus when the lockdown is eased should be ready "two to three weeks", MPs have been told.


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Revival in smartphone demand in India expected from Q3: IDC

By economictimes.indiatimes.com
Published On :: 2020-05-08T19:05:57+05:30

The smartphone market registered 1.5 per cent year-on-year growth in the March quarter with shipments touching 32.5 million units, IDC said in a statement. Despite the low figure, India was the only country among the top three nations to see any growth.


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Lockdown 3.0: Tecno launches doorstep smartphone delivery with over 35,000 retailers

By economictimes.indiatimes.com
Published On :: 2020-05-09T14:02:16+05:30

Consumers can reach out to their preferred retailers via Tecno's website and enter their PIN code details. The microsite with a store locator will assist in mapping the retailer and the contact details, and the device will be delivered to their doorsteps by their nearest retailer.


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Scrabble gets a video game reinvention for smartphones, tablets

By rssfeeds.usatoday.com
Published On :: Sat, 07 Mar 2020 16:20:23 +0000

Scrabble is among classic casual games getting new life on smartphones and tablets as the mobile video game audience continues to grow.

      


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Pixel 4a: Google's next cheaper smartphone could be arriving in May

By www.standard.co.uk
Published On :: 2020-04-30T09:02:29Z

The Pixel 3a was a big hit, can the 4a follow that lead?


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Suffering from a UTI? You can now diagnose it and receive treatment at home using your smartphone

By www.standard.co.uk
Published On :: 2020-05-05T07:32:06Z

Receive a test and treatment in the same day


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No breakfast buffet and smartphones as keys: what London hotels will be like after lockdown

By www.standard.co.uk
Published On :: 2020-05-07T09:59:14Z

Breakfast buffet's out as hotels prepare to make you open doors using phone


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HTC separates successful VR sales from struggling smartphone side

By arstechnica.com
Published On :: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 15:10:14 +0000

Spin-off subsidiary subsequently shan't subsidize sickly smartphone setup.


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Police chief refuses to tell Parliament about secret spyware with potential to target Aussie smartphones

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 09:49:00 +1100

NSW Police has refused to reveal if defence lawyers are being spied on with electronic surveillance as part of criminal investigations.


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Sydney news: Hot, windy weather prompts total fire ban, and new research into perils of smartphone use

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 07:48:00 +1100

MORNING BRIEFING: Temperatures are set to soar to over 30 degrees Celsius in some places as firefighters stare down a difficult 48 hours on the east coast. Plus a Russian national is wanted for a double stabbing in Sydney's south.


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Newsletter: $1,000 is just too dang much for a smartphone

By www.latimes.com
Published On :: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 08:00:33 -0500

A new study from market researcher NPD Group reveals that fewer than 10% of consumers are willing to shell out more than a thousand bucks for a phone.


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How the Spread of Smartphones will Open up New Ways of Improving Financial Inclusion

By webfeeds.brookings.edu
Published On :: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 07:30:00 -0500


It’s easy to imagine a future in a decade or less when most people will have a smartphone. In our recent paper Pathways to Smarter Digital Financial Inclusion, we explore the benefits of extending financial services to the mass of lower-income people in developing countries who are currently dubious of the value that financial services can bring to them, distrustful of formal financial institutions, or uncomfortable with the treatment they expect to receive.

The report analyzes six inherent characteristics of smartphones that have the potential to change market dynamics relative to the status quo of simple mobile phones and cards. 

Customer-Facing Changes:

1. The graphical user interface.
2. The ability to attach a variety of peripheral devices to it (such as a card reader or a small printer issuing receipts).
3. The lower marginal cost of mobile data communications relative to traditional mobile channels (such as SMS or USSD).

Service Provider Changes:

4. Greater freedom to program services without requiring the acquiescence or active participation of the telco.
5. Greater flexibility to distribute service logic between the handset (apps) and the network (servers).
6. More opportunities to capture more customer data with which to enhance customer value and stickiness.

Taken together, these changes may lower the costs of designing for lower-income people dramatically, and the designs ought to take advantage of continuous feedback from users. This should give low-end customers a stronger sense of choice over the services that are relevant to them, and voice over how they wish to be served and treated.

Traditionally poor people have been invisible to service providers because so little was known about their preferences that it was not possible build a service proposition or business case around them. The paper describes three pathways that will allow providers to design services on smartphones that will enable an increasingly granular understanding of their customers. Each of the three pathways offers providers a different approach to discover what they need to know about prospective customers in order to begin engaging with them. 

Pathway One: Through Big Data

Providers will piece together information on potential low-income customers directly, by assembling available data from disparate sources (e.g. history of airtime top-ups and bill payment, activity on online social networks, neighborhood or village-level socio-demographic data, etc.) and by accelerating data acquisition cycles (e.g. inferring behavior from granting of small loans in rapid succession, administering selected psychometric questions, or conducting A/B tests with special offers). There is a growing number of data analytics companies that are applying big data in this way to benefit the poor.

Pathway Two: Through local Businesses

Smartphones will have a special impact on micro and small enterprises, which will see increasing business benefits from recording and transacting more of their business digitally. As their business data becomes more visible to financial institutions, local firms will increasingly channel financial services, and particularly credit, to their customers, employees, and suppliers. Financial institutions will backstop their credit, which in effect turns smaller businesses into front-line distribution partners into local communities.

Pathway Three: Through Socio-Financial Networks

Firms view individuals primarily as managers of a web of socio-financial relationships that may or may not allow them access to formal financial services. Beyond providing loans to “creditworthy” people, financial institutions can provide transactional engines, similar to the crowdfunding platforms that enable all people to locate potential funding sources within their existing social networks. A provider equipped with appropriate network analysis tools could then promote rather than displace people´s own funding relationships and activities. This would provide financial service firms valuable insight into how people manage their financial needs.

The pathways are intended as an exploration of how smartphones could support the development of a healthier and more inclusive digital financial service ecosystem, by addressing the two critical deficiencies of the current mass-market digital finance systems. Smartphones could enable stronger customer value propositions, leading to much higher levels of customer engagement, leading to more revelation of customer data and more robust business cases for the providers involved. Mobile technology could also lead to a broader diversity of players coming into the space, each playing to their specific interests and contributing their specific set of skills, but together delivering customer value through the right combination of collaboration and competition.

Authors

  • Ignacio Mas
  • David Porteous
Image Source: © CHRIS KEANE / Reuters
      


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EcoXPower Kit Charges a Smartphone and LED Bicycle Lights with Pedal Power

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:13:08 -0400

The kit includes an LED headlight and tail light and a rugged case that attaches a smartphone to the handlebars.


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Miracle material could eliminate cracked smartphone screens

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:06:48 -0400

The material could also one day charge our devices.


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Why the best smartphone is the one you already have

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 09:07:37 -0400

Douglas Rushkoff explains that the real costs of a new phone are not measured in just money.


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Fairphone 2 is the world's first ethical, modular smartphone

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 08:44:20 -0400

If only we could buy it in North America.


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New smartphone coating could make your screen shatterproof

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 07:00:00 -0400

A coating made from copper nanowires could make those smartphone screens a lot tougher and help the gadgets to last longer.


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Fungi can recycle your smartphone battery

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 11:25:42 -0400

The best way to extract all of those valuable metals in old electronics may be to grow some fungus.


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Google's Project Ara modular smartphone is finally being released

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Tue, 31 May 2016 10:03:32 -0400

But is it truly modular?


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Nevermind, there won't be a modular smartphone after all

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 10:10:44 -0400

Alphabet, Google's parent company, has scrapped the release of the Project Ara phone.


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How to extend the life of your smartphone by years without it slowing down

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:41:48 -0400

Many users replace their smartphones every couple of years, even though they have years of life left in them. Here's how to keep your smartphone for longer while keeping up its performance.


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Smartphones can now detect diseases in minutes

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 07:00:00 -0500

A new plug-in diagnostic tool could mean better healthcare around the world.


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Batteries from old smartphones could light up rural areas

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 10:31:00 -0400

The batteries could provide back-up power for small solar power systems.


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What's that flower? Your smartphone will soon know the answer

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 10:39:05 -0400

It's impossible for a human to know all of the hundreds of thousands of species of flowers on our planet, so Microsoft has developed flower learning software.


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What you should know about the cobalt in your smartphone

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:48:00 -0400

Cobalt is used to build lithium-ion batteries found in mobile technology. Much of it comes from Congo, where men, women, and children endure dangerous and unhealthy conditions to satisfy our hunger for new devices. It's time we paid attention.


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Smartphones have made parenting harder than ever

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:19:00 -0500

Giving a kid a phone "feels a little like trying to teach your kid how to use cocaine, but in a balanced way."


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The smartphone that just got smarter – by testing water and treating food

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 14:39:25 -0400

A 24-year-old food scientist at the University of Copenhagen has developed a prototype that could potentially save millions of lives.


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Become a bat detective with this plug-in device for your smartphone

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Mon, 15 May 2017 11:02:49 -0400

The Echo Meter can detect, record and identify the sounds of bats nearby.


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Give charities free ad space on your smartphone's lock screen with Screen Donor

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 16:24:24 -0400

This app gives free ad space to deserving charities and NGOs on one of our tech-centric culture's most common screens - our smartphone lock screens.


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Could you travel without a smartphone?

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 06:00:00 -0400

A new study asked 24 travellers to take this challenge and report back on their experiences.


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61% of Mobile Workers Trust Their Employer to Keep Personal Information Private on Their Mobile Devices - What can employers see on smartphones

By feedproxy.google.com
Published On :: 15 Jul 2015 12:50:00 EDT

Smartphones hold increasing amounts of sensitive personal data, so every device is now a mixed-use device. As a result, businesses must protect employee privacy as fiercely as corporate security.


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