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Denise Chapman, a director at a San Diego advertising agency, is afraid to count how many hours of each day she spends on her mobile phone, browsing for clothes or gifts. But when it comes time to actually buy something, instead of using her iPhone, she fires up an aging Dell computer that sits on a desk in her family’s
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Services allowing consumers to perform banking and payment operations on their mobile phones are surging in sub-Saharan Africa, blazing a trail for the rest of the slower-moving world to follow. Given that relatively few Africans have traditional bank accounts while most now own a mobile phone, it is of little wonder the region has taken the global lead in using
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A powerful new surveillance tool being adopted by police departments across the country comes with an unusual requirement: To buy it, law enforcement officials must sign a nondisclosure agreement preventing them from saying almost anything about the technology. Any disclosure about the technology, which tracks cellphones and is often called StingRay, could allow criminals and terrorists to circumvent it, the
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Phone makers will seek to seduce new buyers with even smarter Internet-connected watches and other wireless gadgets as they wrestle for dominance at the world’s biggest mobile fair starting Monday. Along with the launches of numerous new smartphones – dominated by South Korean giant Samsung – tech firms are trying to conquer users’ bodies and connect their environments. Several makers
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From robots that chop up your vegetables to detectors that measure how long you sleep, such “smart” appliances are becoming more and more a part of daily life, according to industry players. Developers at the Dublin Web Summit, one of Europe’s biggest technology conferences, said interlinkage between people, their homes and their devices were opening up new frontiers. The developers
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