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Digital divide closing with major mobile help
A report at SPOTLIGHT begins: “As the digital divide closes, thanks in no small part to mobile media, the question is no longer who’s using digital media, but how.” The SPOTLIGHT report review ideas from an interview with Professor S. Craig Watkins, author of The Young & the Digital.
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Apple and HTC legal battle continues with a history lesson
HTC responds to allegations from Apple regarding patent infringements As you may have heard, Apple has filed some legal action against HTC regarding some of its cell phone technology relating back to the iPhone. HTC disagrees and has issued a press release to express the company’s position as such. HTC states that it “will fully defend itself” against any lawsuits and legal action that Apple may take.
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Nokia wants YOU to help design its next smartphone
Nokia Concept Phone The once king of mobile innovation has launched a new project called “ Design by Community ” whose sole mission is to dive deep in to the hearts and minds of handset users and tech junkies alike, worldwide, in hopes of one day regaining the mobile tech-throne.
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Meet some Canucks, get free Best Buy gift cards with a BlackBerry
Hey Vancouver hockey fans! As the hometown Canucks gear up for a potential playoff run, you’ll have an opportunity to meet a couple of the team’s star players and cash in on some free stuff while you’re at it. They’re not quite Roberto Luongo, but you still want to meet these Canucks. I got an email in my inbox from Best Buy , informing me that Alex Burrows will be making an appearance at the Cambie Best Buy on Sunday, March 21st between 2pm and 4pm
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GadgetTrak Mobile Security tracks Android smartphones when lost or stolen
What’s stopping someone from keeping your lost or stolen Android phone and calling it their own? Not much, until now. ActiveTrak announced they will release a new version of their GadgetTrak Mobile Security software for the Android OS at CTIA Wireless 2010 next week. The software allows users to track their devices and data if it were ever to get into the wrong hands. If you have classified information, sensitive business materials, or just some photos of who knows what that you don’t want spread around Facebook, the remote data wipe feature should appeal to you.
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Honest ants smartly handle murderous mobs
Oxford Science reports on a study of the strategy of queen ants for surviving murderous mobs of workers. They are in danger because: In some ant species, several queen ants work together to begin a new colony, each raising broods of workers until there are enough ants to form a viable colony
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Sony Ericsson Vivaz Review Part 2: HD Video!
Welcome to part 2 of our Sony Ericsson Vivaz review. Today we look at the feature that’s grabbing all the headlines as we put the Vivaz’s HD video capture under the microscope. We also give the 8.1 Megapixel still camera a thorough test drive to see how it performs and check out the uploading facilities on Sony Ericsson’s latest touchscreen phone.
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College students mostly begin research at Wikipedia
A Wired Campus article reports on a study of student usage of Wikipedia. The finding that the most common reason students go to Wikipedia is to begin research belies the frequent grousing that students probably do not get excellence in research because they rely too much on Wikipedia
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Acer Liquid in stock now at Mobiles.co.uk!
If you’re after an Android powered mobile phone , you really are spoilt for choice these days, with great offerings from Motorola and HTC as well as exciting new launches from HTC and Sony Ericsson on the horizon. And now, we can add one more name to that list with the arrival of the Acer Liquid which is in stock now at Mobiles.co.uk
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Buzzbox results #SXSW Digg 2.0
BREAKING NEWS CNET by Daniel Terdiman @GreeterDan Mashable ‘New Version of Digg Revealed’, by @BenParr RT gervis Unveiled at #SXSW Digg 2.0 , ‘faster,’ ‘instant’ http://tinyurl.com/ydhbmb8 more Buzzbox results http://www.buzzbox.com/topic/SXSW/ Just before Digg founder Kevin Rose and his Diggnation partner Alex Albrecht took the stage at Stubb’s BBQ here, CEO Jay Adelson got in front of the audience of hundreds and took the opportunity to introduce, for the first time, what he said was “five years” of major work on the popular headline aggregation system. Real-time results for #digg
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