Pew: More Than Half Of ...

The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project is releasing a new study today that provides further evidence of the growing trend of consumers using mobile phones in stores for purchasing decisions. Pew says that more than half of adult cell phone owners used their cell...
Chart: Android Is Catching Up To iOS In Mobile Video Views

Chart: Android Is Catch...

With 250 million  Android devices out there, growing by more than 700,000 activations a day, a lot of mobile video is watched on Android cell phones and tablets. It is not quite as much yet as on Apple iOS devices but it is catching up fast. A year ago in January, 2011, Apple dominated...

Early Facebook App Caus...

Causes launched with the Facebook Platform back in 2007 as a way to help friends more easily campaign for the social causes of their choice. The app benefited from getting in early on the platform, being the only one in its category (other developers were building poking apps or games at...
iPad Is The Least Problematic Tablet Says FixYa, The Tech Q&A Site

iPad Is The Least Probl...

FixYa , a product Q&A site, took a look at its own holiday stats to collect some facts about many major cell phones and tablets including iOS and Android devices. The conclusion? iPhone owners tend to be most interested in fixing battery and call quality problems on Android users...
Cálmate: Put Down Your Smartphone To Feel Better

Cálmate: Put Down Your...

A study by the British Psychological Society found a link between stress levels and the number of times a person picks up their smartphone to check messages and mails. As an addict, I can completely agree with this finding. In short, the more you do it, the worse you feel. Oddly, the...

Fujitsu Japan Rolls Out...

Do women need special cell phones? Certain companies, such as Deutsche Telekom or Samsung , seem to think so. Now Fujitsu Japan is ready to roll out [JP] not one but two handsets specifically designed “for girls”, a feature phone and an Android model. The Android phone, the...

Stop! It’s A Really B...

Did you know that your brain releases dopamine when it processes something new? At least that’s what the Internet told me . Apparently dopamine is key in establishing a craving, which could be why ever-updating sites like blogs or Reddit are so popular. There is always something...

It’s 2012 Already So ...

As we enter 2012, shouldn’t we all be traveling around in flying cars by now? That was the prediction in the Jetsons cartoon tv show. The futuristic series, first produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1962, was set in 2062, exactly 50 years from today. 2012 is the halfway point, so...
Japan’s Top 3 Mobile Carriers Agree To Support Global NFC Standard

Japan’s Top 3 Mobile ...

Japan, one of the most advanced mobile nations in the world, doesn’t want to be a “ cell phone Galapagos ” anymore, at least when it comes to payments over NFC. Paying with cell phones is already ubiquitous in Japan, but now the country’s top three telcos ( NTT...
Hands-On With The Meizu MX

Hands-On With The Meizu...

The Meizu MX is an odd duck. A Chinese-only smartphone that may (or may not) be reaching our shores, it’s hard not treating it like an oddity washed up on the beach rather than a shipping device. It is a 1.4GHz phone with 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage and has an...

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