Who needs a house when you can buy a $1.3 million mobile phone instead?
China has 500 million cellphone subscribers in its 20th anniversary of mobile communications, a rapid progress by the country considering two decades ago most of its citizens did not even have fixed landlines.
According to the New Scientist, the finding of the study opens new possibilities for social scientists and others who want to know how people connect and interact socially. For the study, an international team handed out mobile phones to 94 students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- the gadgets were modified with software which logged their calls, and used Bluetooth to detect when another was close by.
Dr Raskar says that it is basically story telling and the intention is to create a platform that can be diffused into society.
Global chipmaker Texas Instruments has said it will work with partners to build low-cost cellphones and silicon chip-embedded consumer electronic products for India's booming market in the next five years.
Mobile phone services in the Kashmir valley have been cut off since Monday night owing to a technical snag in the system caused by incessant rains, snowfall in some areas and shortage in electricity supply.
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Notably, tech-savvy South Indian youngsters show a greater desire for features like Bluetooth, memory card and the Internet whereas children in the rest of the country show interest in camera, games and ring tones. Around 18 per cent of the parents surveyed turned to their children for information on computers.
The declining prices of mobile handsets and low connectivity costs have helped in doubling Internet access through cellphones this year.
In a first, authorities in the United States used a cellphone alert to ask millions of New Yorkers to help nab a 28-year-old naturalised American citizen of Afghan descent wanted for the weekend bombings in Manhattan and New Jersey.
Consider these numbers. The latest figures from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India reveal that the number of Indians using their mobiles to logon to the internet has increased from 16 million in 2006 to 38 million in 2007 (both GSM and CDMA).
Ignoring advertising will get increasingly difficult with billboards now being able to beam video advertisements directly to passing cellphones
The nokia defective battery controversy having come in handy, the grey market is cashing in on the the opportunity, pushing up sales of new Chinese phones that have hit the market lately.
At 42%, the average spend on handset as percentage of monthly salary in India is the world's highest.
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'The prisoner was admitted in the hospital due to stomach pain. The x-ray of his stomach was taken and the presence of foreign particles was visible during the examination. There is a need to investigate it thoroughly'
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Students at the Department of Industrial Design at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi have attached a turbine with a mobile phone that helps charge it even when the user is travelling.
Three team mates of defending champion Jonas Vingegaard crashed when Sepp Kuss hit the spectator's arm and lost his balance.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday began the second round of questioning of former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia at the Tihar Jail in New Delhi in connection with its money laundering probe into alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise policy, officials said.
On the flipside, since 60-70 per cent of the costs pertain to raw material, which are mostly imported, currency fluctuation is a key risk for the segment.
'We could hear from the phone the bombing and the shooting and the Arab screaming.'
While two lives were "tragically" lost before the landfall of the cyclone, not a single human life was lost post the landfall in Gujarat.
Authorities said the shooting is not related to a hate crime.
The railways initially called a team from the Unique Identification Authority of India to the site to take thumbprints of the dead to ascertain their identity.
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