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• Mobiles become emergency data network »
Auto-BAHN lets data hop from phone to phone - Mobiles become emergency data network, Taiwan unveils eco-friendly rewritable 'paper', and the first IBM PC came out 30 years ago. Mobiles become emergency data net ...
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• A tattoo-like monitoring device »
Can record health data about the heart, brain waves and muscle activity - Scientists develop tattoo-like monitoring device, Jeff Bezos patents retro jets and airbags for telephones, and how your Facebook photos ...
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• USB with 100W of power »
USB 3.0 could soon drive monitors, hard drives with 100W of power - 3DS price drop comes early, USB 3.0 could soon drive monitors and hard drives with 100w of power, and quantum super-computing sees microwave b ...
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• Best Android platform apps »
Some other mobile spying apps, and Ray Kurzweil - You may be on the road less traveled, but, if you are part of the Android movement, you are ahead of the smartphone curve. The platform's many benefits are offs ...
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• Free vs paid antivirus software »
Backup cameras required by 2014? And is the speed of light limiting trading? - Can free antivirus software protect you? Or is it worth paying for a full-blown A/V app? We look at the benefits (and pitfalls) of ...
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• Windows Mobile 7? »
Robots disappearing in the virtual world, and emerging platforms - In an increasingly tech-centric world, keeping kids interested in learning can be an uphill battle. With teaching that involves play recently a ...
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• Electronic ink on real paper »
Protect your data during border searches, no integrated-SIM iPhone - One of the main goals of e-paper is to replicate the look and feel of actual ink on paper. We have, therefore, investigated the use of paper ...
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Samsung is ready to bring its flagship Android-based Galaxy S II in the US - a popular offering for consumers - and beat Apple to the launch of the iPhone 5.
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Approximately 14 million US mobile users in the US used their smartphones to scan QR codes in the month of June 2011 alone, according to a new report from ComScore. Of course, even though QR codes can only be scanned and read by smartphones, those numbers do not reflect the smartphone consumer market in its entirety. That's still less than 10 percent of smartphone users who are actually paying attention to QR codes.
It's not often that a device of this disturbing a magnitude gets through a month or two being under wraps – much less several years. That appears to be the case though, as this eBay listing shows a MacBook Pro.