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Displaying items by tag: Cellphones

Sunday, 29 April 2012 12:32

Mobile phones are, most likely, not a health hazard

A wide-ranging review of research into the possible adverse effects on human health of cellphone radiation has concluded there is no evidence of any, but the researchers still have reservations.

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Monday, 27 February 2012 18:33

Vita promises to waterproof your cellphone

Vita Group (ASX: VTG) has licensed technology from US company Liquipel that is claimed to waterproof cellphones.

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Friday, 18 February 2011 18:03

Latest study says cellphones won't give you brain cancer

A new study has concluded that there is no link between mobile phone usage and brain cancer: by simply tracking the incidence of brain cancers over the years when mobile phone usage was escalating rapidly.

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Tuesday, 08 June 2010 12:35

Cellphone use could harm your sex life - if you're a buck rabbit

Researchers have attempted to study the affect of prolonged cellphone radiation on the sexual behaviour of male rabbits, and have concluded that there could be some harmful effects.

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Monday, 26 April 2010 23:24

Samsung cellphone to ship with Yahoo! apps

Samsung cellphones worldwide, including those running Android and Samsungs' own Bada platform, will ship preloaded with a range of Yahoo! applications under a global partnership between the two companies.

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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 19:07

Kaiser report: Kids are entertainment media superusers

The Kaiser Family Foundation announced its report “Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds” has shown that children in the United States use entertainment media devices for 53 hours in an average week, and compress nearly 11 hours of multimedia use in a 7.5-hour period each day.

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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 10:37

TelstraOne Experience UI increases phone bills

Judging by Telstra's own figures, the TelstraOne Experience UI delivered on some phones may be doing more for the company than for users. It's apparently adding more than 10% to customers' monthly bills.

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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:24

Parenting style important to safe teen driving

A study performed by the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia found that parenting style is very important in the driving style of teenagers. Specifically, teenagers that have their own car are twice as dangerous as teenagers that share a car with a parent.

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Thursday, 24 September 2009 04:44

iPhone heading to Korea

Apple has received official approval to sell the iPhone in South Korea. But the popular handset will be up against entrenched local brands.

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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 10:58

Nokia N97 officially launched, Ovi Store clocks up 20,000 apps

Although Nokia seems to let phone retailers sell its phones sometimes weeks before any company launch, the long-awaited N97 has finally launched on an official basis, along with the official Australian unveiling of the Ovi “app” store, now with a claimed 20,000 apps!

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Monday, 29 June 2009 14:34

iPhone 3GS: still the best?

The third coming of the Jesus phone has come at last, with the masses in their millions saying hallelujah for the much faster and smoother iPhone experience, but while trouble in paradise has ensued with reports of overheating and bugs in iPhone OS 3.0, no-one has yet properly copied the iPhone, let alone surpassed it.

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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 13:45

Vodafone unveils magic iPhone 3G S pricing and it's tether-fee free

As predicted, iPhone 3G S pricing from Vodafone is virtually identical to the pricing it unveiled for the HTC Magic Google Android phone earlier this month, at $0 upfront on a range of plans including unlimited voice and the happy surprise of fee-free tethering in contrast to Optus. What are the details?

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Wednesday, 10 June 2009 13:54

iPhone 3G S pricing in Australia - surprise coming?

Although the iPhone 3G S launched with US dollar pricing known before the keynote was over, Australian telcos are making us wait on finding out exactly what an iPhone 3G S will cost to buy outright, upgrade to or have to pay per month on a 24 month contract - should we expect any surprises?

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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 17:42

Palm Pre preps firmware update, prods SDK and provides new apps

Yes, the iPhone 3G S has just launched, but Palm’s own webOS revolution is doing well with a quick update, delivered over-the-air, to immediately improve stability for some apps, a dozen new apps arriving post launch, an SDK is on the way and at least 50,000 sold at launch. Not bad, for Palm… but is it enough?

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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 13:38

Will the iPhone 3GS come to 3 Mobile?

Vodafone and Optus have announced they’ll soon be offering the brand new iPhone 3G S to customers from June 26 onwards, and with Telstra expected to make an announcement at some stage given they currently sell iPhones, will 3 Mobile ever sell the iPhone?

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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 05:52

Top ten iPhone 4.0 feature demands for 2010 iPhone

The new iPhone 3G S is due on the 26th of June, but we’re already wanting more, so here’s our list of feature demands for the future 2010 iPhone 4.0!

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Monday, 08 June 2009 17:25

iPhone unlockers - don't upgrade to 3.0 yet!

We’re yet to see whether iPhone OS 3.0 launches for download in a few hours time, along with a new iPhone itself, or if both will be delayed, but the iPhone Dev Team has warned against rogue downloads promising yellowsnow updates, fake 3.0 unlocks and even upgrading to iTunes 8.2 itself.

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Thursday, 04 June 2009 18:33

Palm Pre previews pretty well

Palm’s highly anticipated Pre, touted as yet another potential iPhone killer, launches in a couple of days in the busiest phone launch month of the year, set to compete with a new iPhone, the Nokia N97, Google’s HTC Magic and more – so is it any good?

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Tuesday, 12 May 2009 21:03

Telstra finally adds Nokia E71 to its Next G range

Months after the “Blackberry-esque” Nokia E71 launched for 2100MHz 3.5G networks, Telstra has finally brought an 850MHz “Next G” capable model to market for its customers – but where’s a Next G capable Nokia E75?

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Monday, 30 March 2009 20:52

Skype sets sights on popping iPhone and BlackBerry cherry

One of the world’s most popular Internet phone services, Skype, is finally set to make its mark in an official capacity on the other two most important phone platforms it hasn’t yet supported: the iPhone and the BlackBerry, with iPhone action starting on Tuesday, and the BlackBerry cherry popping in May.

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