Smart Phones

Mobile App for Lifesaving Technology? Or Regulated Industry?

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Innovation, House of Representatives, Hipaa, Gov 2.0, M-Health. Mobile Health Apps, FDA Regulation, Fda Regulations, Congress, Alan W. Silberberg, Smart Phones, Device Regulation, E-Health, Technology News

Is an app a device? Is it a life-saving tool or is it the new shiny toy on your smartphone about which you know nothing about the reliability or specificity of how it works?

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Leveraging Online Activity Into Offline Action

Dan P. Morrison | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Smart Phones, Detroit Impact, Social Media, Social Engagement, Detroit Organizing, Crank Up the Cause, Social Activism, Detroit News

I want good old-fashioned online activity to inspire people to do something in the real world. Let's get social. Doing good has never been so much fun.

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How Wireless Hype Is Hurting America

Bruce Kushnick | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Wireless, AT&T, Broadband, Netflix, Internet, Nielsen, Verizon, Fcc, Internet Connection Speed, Smart Phones, Technology News

If Americans believe the phone company hype -- and are seduced into believing that a slow and expensive wireless infrastructure is better than a fast wireline infrastructure -- the economic consequences could be grave.

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Why I Won't Let My Teen Get A Smartphone

Debra Ollivier | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Online Marketing, Smart Phones, Teens and Technology, Cell Phones, Pen, Facebook, Computer Addiction, Baby Boomers, Parenting post50, Fifty News

My son is sure that smart phones will make you smarter. I beg to differ -- and that's whether you're 16 or 60.

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In Priase of My Dumb-as-Dirt, Stupid Phone

Pamela Haag | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Smart Technology, Speeding Cameras, Frankenstein, 2001, Smarts, American Idiot, Smartphones, Smart Phones, Technology, Culture News

My cell phone is an idiot. It's a straight-up, dingbat dumb-ass. It can't do anything, except make phone calls, and has no competency to tell me where...

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21 Reasons to Take a Break From Your Cell Phone

Lisa Mirza Grotts | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Cell Phones, Dropped Calls, Landline, Smart Phones, Blackberries, Eavesdropping, Iphones, Thieves, Handheld Device, Distraction, Style News

With no disrespect to Steve Jobs, we all need a break from our electronic toys from time to time. If you feel the need to take a break from your cell phone, read on for a list of good reasons to do so.

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The New 'Digital Divide'

Bill_Robinson | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Technology Encroachment, Digital Divide, Smart-Phones, Technologization, Technology News

As I was sitting at the bar in my local New York City watering hole recently, a troubling realization dawned on me: there were 14 people, men and women, sitting at the bar and every single one of them was using a smartphone, their faces glowing eerily from the backlight.

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The Revolution Will Be Streamed

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Cell Phones, Police Brutality, Smart Phones, Protests, First Amendment, Video, Arab Spring, Police Abuse, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

George Orwell once wrote that if you want a vision of the future, "imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever." Governments have suppressed ci...

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The Amazing Race: Back to Basics

Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Google, Smart Phones, The Amazing Race, Hemanshu Nigam, Technology, Cbs, Ssp Blue, Entertainment News

The last episode of The Amazing Race brought us back to life as we used to know it and how much of the world still knows it.

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How Will Personal-Feedback Loops Affect the Hispanic Population?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 10.20.2011

Read More: Latinos, Latino, Gottafeeling, Personal-Feedback Loop, Ethnicity, English, Cultural Feedback, Alicia Morga, Smart Phones, Hispanic, Spanish, Social Network, Immigration, Entrepreneurs, Northwestern University, Hispanics, Refleta, Race, Angelica Perez-Litwin, Educational Achievement, Feedback Loops, Voter Registration, U.S. Census, iPhone App, Immigrant, Technology, Ethnic Group, Prenatal Care, Latino Voices News

Could a personal-feedback loop help recent immigrants learn English more quickly? Might the idea be applied to concepts like voter registration or proper prenatal care, both of which are issues within the Latino population?

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Mobile Payments Are a Mess

Dan Frommer | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Smartphones, Mobile Payments, Mobile Phones, Mobile Wallets, Smart Phones, Smart Phone, Technology News

The idea that we might someday use our mobile phones to pay for some things offline makes sense. And merging the mobile and wallet into one thing to carry around seems like a smart idea. But getting there is going to be a challenge.

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Boost Your Sales and Enhance Your Brand With Little-Known QR Codes

Jerry Chautin | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Nielson Survey, Mike Payne, Sarasota, Feature Phones, Western North Carolina, Real Estate, Corky Vetten, Retailers, Branding, Exit Realty, Small Business Owners, Ethical Bean Coffee, Restaurant Sales, Sandals Realty, Business News, Track Inventory, Virtual House Tour, Discount Coupons, Ibm, Increase Sales, Bradenton, Florida State University, Rorschach Inkblots, QR Codes, Target Marketing Magazine, North Georgia, Two Dimensional Bar Code, Merkle, Brookstone, Southwest Florida, Smart Phones, Barcode.com, Small Business, Craig Aberle, Webtrends, Barcoding, Business News

Quick response codes have the potential to boost your sales, enhance your brand and turn your plain vanilla print advertisement into an interactive, m...

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How Consumers Would Benefit From the AT&T/T-Mobile USA Merger

Rick Carnes | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Consumer, AT&T, Copyright, Smart Phones, Songwriters Guild of America, Merger, Songwriters, T-Mobile, Intellectual Property, Technology News

The interests of music suppliers and wireless consumers coincide -- content protection is in everyone's interest. This makes the AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile something to be glad about.

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Texting in Theaters Is a Blight: Let's Make Smartphones Smarter With Apps to Obstruct Rude People

Michael Russnow | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Cell Phones, Magazines, Writers Guild, Anderson Cooper, Blackberry, Technology, Cbs, Luddites, Francois Truffart, Iphone, Directors Guild, Dateline, Nightline, Abc, Musical Theatre, Ballet, Texting, Twitter, Nbc, Ram Productions International, Facebook, Theatres, Movies, Opera, Cnn, Journalism, ArcLight Cinema, Internet, Michael Russnow, Smart Phones, Android, Dance, 60 Minutes, Newspapers, Colcoa, Entertainment News

I'm a fan of new technology and was among the first on my block to buy a VCR. I've also been surfing the Internet for many years and bought a cell ph...

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How Long Should Electronics Last? My Calculator, the E-Hero

Diane Dulken | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cell Phones, Recycling Electronics, Apple, Made in Japan, E-Waste, Green Electronics, Smart Phones, China, Congo, Green Technology, Green News

There's a world of reasons for industry and customers to seek new business models and better stewardship over e-production, e-gadgets and e-waste.

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Smart Phones Foster Dumb Habits Among Pedestrians

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smart Phones, Smartphones, Cellphones, Cell Phones, Technology News

(DAVID BAUDER, AP) NEW YORK — It was a miserable morning in New York, rain falling heavily and a 30 mph wind that made holding an umbrella diffi...

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Left Behind Phone Chargers Pile Up in Hotels

Sue Frause | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cell Phones, Smart Phones, Hotels, Technology, Twitter, Misplaced, Facebook, Cell Phone Charger, Travel News

"Sue Frause has left her two phone chargers at the last two hotels where she stayed. She now has no phone chargers and one very dead phone." That w...

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The 2010 Newsroom: Lean and Techy

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guardian, Australia, Smart Phones, Media, Britain, Telegraaf Media Group, Trends in Newsrooms 2010, Pulitzer Prize, North Africa, London, Paris, Social Media, North American, Convergence, Middle East, Editors Weblog, Hyperlocal News, Rupert Murdoch, E-Readers, Latin American, Washington Post, Investigative Journalism, WAN-IFRA, Pro Publica, Ipad, Google, Shaping the Future of the Newspaper, News Corp, Asian, Bbc, Robocop Editor, Newsroom, 9th International Newsroom Summit, Brazil, Dutch, World Editors Forum, Entrepreneurial Journalism, New York Times, European, Mobile Apps, Tablets, Media News

Newsrooms should be converged, integrated, flexible, lean and techy, to survive in today's fast-changing media landscape, but news organizations shoul...

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Are Smartphones Making Us Stupid?

David Wygant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iphone, Blackberry, Dating Advice, iPhone Apps, Dating, Smart Phones, Cell Phone Addiction, Cell Phones, Smart Phone Addiction, Technology Addiction, Technology News

Robin Williams said it best years ago when he said that giving his kids Nintendo was like giving them the ultimate cocaine. We really have become an addicted society.

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99.8% Of College Students Have Cell Phones: Ball State Study

Daily Nebraskan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: College Students Smart Phones, Smart Phones, Cell Phones, Smart Phones vs. Computers, College Students Cell Phones, College News

Over the last few years, the image of students talking, texting or e-mailing on their phones in between classes has become increasingly common on most...

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Empowerment via the New Media

Rep. Charles Rangel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smart Phones, New Media, Poltical Activism, Web, Civic Participation, Technology, Cutting Edge Technology, Technology News

There's really nothing like a handwritten note from a constituent you've known for years. But I'm excited to harness the power of technology that's making it easier to stay in touch with my constituents.

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Closing the Digital Divide One Government App at a Time

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: African American Digital Divide, Obama Vivek Kundra, Pew Internet and American Life, Latino Digital Divide, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Obama-Vivek-Kundra, Government Online, Smart Phones, Pew-Internet, Low Income Internet Users, Smart Phone, usa.gov Website, Vivek Kundra, Hispanic Digital Divide, White House Social Media, Government-Online, Government Apps, Pew Internet & American Life Project, Pew-Internet-and-American-Life, Pew Research Center, Diverse Internet Users, Social Media Government, Pew-Internet--American-Life-Project, Government in Social Media, Chicago News

Welcome to the brave new world of social (media) government -- a world where you can use mobile phone apps to get information from Uncle Sam so you don't actually have to talk to him.

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Downward Mobility: Tech Toys and Society

Douglas Forbes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Iphone, Blackberry, Mobile Phones, Technology, Smart Phones, Smartphones, Tech Toys, Healthy Living News

Despite the immediate satisfaction afforded by our zesty, lusty high-tech trysts, we must not forget that every affair has its consequences.

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Same Old Things

Molly Magid Hoagland | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Family, Grief, Smart Phones, Motherhood, Nostalgia, Snapshots, Vienna, Antique Tools, Death, Caleche Perfume, Bakelite, Gustav Klimt Mother and Child, Healthy Living News

This scuffed tool -- a comb -- which I thought contained no memories, has been with me every day since my late adolescence. Now for a decade it has been smoothing first one, then two boys' heads.

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Smartphones Starting to Look Alike

Larry Magid | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Droid X, Smart Phones, Iphone, Evo 3g, Android, Technology News

Some of the new phones are starting to look a lot like others on the market. When will we get to the same point with smartphones that we have reached with PCs.

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