Posts Tagged ‘mobile phones’
Teens breathe easier with texts about asthma
GEORGIA TECH (US) — Sending children with asthma a daily text message asking about their symptoms and offering information about their condition can lead to improved health and fewer doctor visits. Continue…
Thursday, May 2, 2013 10:31 - 0 Comments
Society & Culture - Feb 13, 2013 13:02 - 2 Comments
Positive messages fight online bullying best
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — It’s better to be positive when using Facebook to fight cyberbullying, which can be as harmful as being bullied physically, say researchers. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 18, 2013 12:51 - 1 Comment
Teens say okay to getting health info in texts
U. ARIZONA (US) — Teenagers say they wouldn’t mind text messages with information about exercise and nutrition, but the tone matters. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jul 27, 2012 10:52 - 0 Comments
Tween grammar may suffer thanks to texting
PENN STATE / NORTHWESTERN (US) — Text messaging offers tweens a quick way to communicate, but it could lead to declining language and grammar skills, according to researchers. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 24, 2012 17:47 - 0 Comments
Battery drain may influence app design
U. TEXAS-AUSTIN (US) — The first systematic power profiles of microprocessors could help lower the energy consumption of small and large devices, say researchers. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 17, 2011 12:37 - 4 Comments
New phone battery charges 10x faster
NORTHWESTERN (US) — A new lithium-ion battery not only holds a charge up to 10 times longer than current technology, but can also charge 10 times faster. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 30, 2011 11:47 - 1 Comment
Smile! Smartphone app is tagging you
DUKE (US) — Forget bothering to tag photographs with your friends’ names, what they’re doing, and where they’re doing it. A new cell phone application can do it for you. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 29, 2010 15:04 - 0 Comments
Are your apps spying on you?
DUKE (US) — A newly developed tool called TaintDroid is designed to identify mobile phone apps that transmit private data to online advertisers. (more…)
Society & Culture - May 28, 2010 15:27 - 13 Comments
Should cell phone bans apply to passengers?
CORNELL (US)—Overhearing people chatting on mobile phones can be more than annoying. It’s so distracting that it affects cognitive performance, new research shows. (more…)
Health & Medicine - May 17, 2010 13:44 - 3 Comments
No link between cell phones and brain cancer
U. LEEDS (UK)—Results from the largest epidemiological study of mobile phone use to date shows no link between mobile phones and brain tumors. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 24, 2010 13:01 - 3 Comments
Mobile threat for ‘smart phone’ users
RUTGERS (US)—A type of malware known to affect personal computers can now attack smart mobile phones, potentially causing a phone to eavesdrop on a meeting, track an owner’s travels, or rapidly drain its battery to render the phone useless. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 21, 2009 11:39 - 1 Comment
Phone records predict malaria’s next move
U. FLORIDA (US)—Researchers at work on a malaria elimination study in Africa have become the first to predict the spread of the disease using cell phone records. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 10, 2009 18:41 - 2 Comments
Can you see me now?
CORNELL (US)—New technology is allowing the deaf and hard of hearing to use cell phones the same way hearing people do—by talking. (more…)
