Tag: Cell Phone

If you thought retailers were being bypassed by online-oriented consumers, think again.

Malicious data is injected by tricking firewalls into leaking sensitive data

The most common type of hybrid processors combine a central processing unit and a graphics processing unit.

For a blind or visually-impaired person, getting around a large building like a hospital or lab may involve a lot of guesswork and asking for directions. A new system called Navatar uses the sensors in a smartphone to detect progress along a map of a building.

Smartphone owners are 33 percent more likely to become victims of identity theft than the general public due to “careless consumer usage.”

New data released May 15 by Google Mobile revealed the six countries with the highest rates of smartphone adoption, in all top six countries the level of smartphone adoption was over 50 percent and over 60 percent in the UAE. 

Aestheticians have a new formula: Your smartphone plus gravity equals drooping jowls and double chins. Is their math right?

Smartphone cameras are undoubtedly handy for snapping a picture of a receipt, memo or other note to quickly record or remind you of some task that needs taking care of. It’s faster than using a dedicated scanner, but the results are often below par. Scanbox aims to improve the quality of these phone camera “scans” by providing a portable stage that puts the camera and the subject in just the …

The meteoric rise in the smartphone market is creating a dangerous vulnerability in smartphone security – one that may not be patched until the problem expands into what has been dubbed an “apocalypse.”

Baidu, which runs China’s most popular search engine, has unveiled its newest smartphone, featuring the company’s own mobile platform and priced to target the…

Microsoft’s Eventual Smartphone Success

WASHINGTON, May 11 (UPI) — A survey of U.S. smartphone owners found nearly three-quarters of them access their mobile devices to get location-based information in real time.

More smartphone users are using location-based services, according to a recent study by Pew Research

AliveCor, the developer of a breakthrough mobile electrocardiogram recorder, today announced results from a study that demonstrated the accuracy of the company’s iPhone-based device, by comparing its Lead I to Lead I from a conventional 12-lead ECG.