Ina Fried in Mobile on January 30 at 11:50 am PT
The move follows the uproar last year over software from Carrier IQ that collected various information about cellphone usage.
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Lauren Goode in News on January 30 at 7:44 am PT
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new report from Pew Research Center says that more than 50 percent of U.S. adult cellphone owners surveyed used their devices for shopping purposes while they were in a store this past holiday season. Some 38 percent of cellphone owners called a friend for purchasing advice; 24 percent looked up online product reviews; and 25 percent used their phones to try to find better deals elsewhere or online. In early January, IBM Research
reported that mobile shopping in December 2011 doubled from the same holiday shopping period the year before.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 23 at 10:25 am PT
A violinist, interrupted by a cellphone ringing in a familiar Nokia tone, decides to play along, literally.
Drew FitzGerald in Mobile on January 14 at 8:52 am PT
Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. welcomed a ruling from the U.S. International Trade Commission that denied patent-infringement allegations raised by Apple Inc.
I apologize. Usually, when there’s a disturbance like this, it is best to ignore it, because addressing it is sometimes worse than the disturbance itself. But this was so egregious that I could not allow it.
– New York Philharmonic conductor Alan Gilbert to the audience at Tuesday night’s Lincoln Center performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, after he had put down his baton and stopped the orchestra because of an iPhone ringing front row center »
Tricia Duryee in Mobile on December 27, 2011 at 10:07 am PT
A record number of applications were downloaded on Dec. 25, making it a very “appy” Christmas for at least some mobile developers.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 26, 2011 at 7:46 am PT
By failing to encrypt network commands, carriers are leaving text messages and phone calls vulnerable to interception, a German researcher told
AllThingsD.
Our study of iPod distraction found that selecting a song on an iPod can degrade performance almost twice as much as dialing a cell phone. Even more surprisingly, selecting a song can degrade performance twice as much as watching a video on the iPod.
– Researcher Dario Salvucci, whose work focuses on multitasking and interruption, including driver distraction
Kara Swisher in AsiaD on November 11, 2011 at 1:35 pm PT
South Korea’s Samsung is a key player in the global mobile war between and among Apple, Google, Nokia and others. Here’s its smartphone general.
