OTI report finds US and Canada have the most expensive cellphone plans, India and Hong Kong the cheapest
It's far from the first study to compare the cost of cellphone plans around the world, but this new report from the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative (which counts Google CEO Eric Schmidt as a board member) does look to be a bit more thorough than most, which might help to dissuade some of the criticism levied at past studies from the likes of the CTIA.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: america, board, cellphone plans, entry, from-the-likes, oti, preset, result, source, study, surprise, united, world
Study: select Android apps sharing data without user notification
Come one, come all -- let's gather and act shocked, shall we? It's no secret that Google's Android Market is far easier to penetrate than Apple's App Store , which is most definitely a double-edged sword.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, apps, Double, edged, intel, LIFETIME, location data, phone, state, study, survey, taintdroid, waiting
Shocker: Touchscreen smudge may give away your Android password pattern
Fast food connoisseurs should pay special attention here -- according to a recent paper by the University of Pennsylvania, Android users are inadvertently leaving their nine-dot lock patterns in the open, courtesy of their fingers' oily smear on the screen.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: camera, lock pattern, lockpattern, mobilephone, orientation, password pattern, phone, result, shocker, smudge, smudge attack, study, touchscreen, universityofpennsylvania
Validas study finds Verizon smartphones consuming more data than iPhones
You know how we've good reason to believe that Verizon Wireless is at least mulling the switch to capped / tiered data plans?
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: att, datacapping, datacaps, internet, Reason, study, study-finds, user-consuming
ComScore: European cell phone navigation on the rise
In Europe, it was a good year for cell phone GPS -- ComScore , an organization that tracks painful sounding concepts like penetration and market share, just reported that an estimated 21 million Europeans stopped to ask their phone for directions last year. That's up 68 percent from the 12.5 million who did so in 2008. With two-thirds of mobile map users saying they accessed their phone GPS in a moving vehicle, ComScore thinks the stats suggest phones might replace standard PNDs as well
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: europe, europeans, gps, map, mobile navigation, phone, pnds, result, study
iPhone SMS database hacked in 20 seconds, news at 11
It's a story tailor-made for the fear-mongering subset of news media. This week, a pair of gentlemen lured an unsuspecting virgin iPhone to a malicious website and -- with no other input from the user -- stole the phone's entire database of sent, received and even deleted text messages in under 20 seconds, boasting that they could easily lift personal contacts, emails and your naughty, naughty photos as well. Thankfully for us level-headed souls, those gentlemen were Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, security researchers performing for the 2010 Pwn2Own hacking contest, and their $15,000 first prize ensures that the winning formula will go to Apple (and only Apple) for further study
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, entry, hackers, messages, photos, pwned, ralf-philipp weinmann, security, securityholes, stole-the-phone, study, vincenzo iozzo
Shopping via mobile phone causes concerns for consumers – Consumer …
In a new international snapshot report1, Consumer Focus and ten other consumer organisations2 are warning that greater consumer protection, better business practices and technical developments are needed if shopping via mobile phone is ...
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: development, digital, helpful-links, marketing, Mobile Phone, national, news, organisation, search, shopping, study, voice
textually.org: Mobile phones 'have not increased brain cancers'
Mobile phones 'have not increased brain cancers'.
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Is Mobile Phone Usage the next threat on road safety? « Auto …
The Insurance Information Institute has recently conducted a research that the use of mobile phones while driving on the road is starting to be a growing concern in certain states in the US. According to the results of the study, ...
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: answers, holiday, Mobile Phone, pennsylvania, recent-news, respondents, road, study, threat-on-road
Acute Appendicitis Diagnosis Using Mobile Phone
Acute appendicitis can be diagnosed from a remote location with the help of a mobile phone fitted with special software.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: aids, astrology, beauty-pageants, cancer, diagnosis-using, entertainment, images, india, Mobile Phone, people, phone, study, tennis, university