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Japanese develop mobile to keep tabs on staff
The Japanese phone company, KDDI, has developed a mobile phone that can tell if an employee is working or idling. The phone works using accelerometers. It needs to be worn on the back of the employee's wrist and the accelerometers track the movements of the wearer. The phone can tell what kind ...
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Apple tops touchscreen smartphone shipments for 2009
More than half of all smartphones shipped in the final three months of last year were touchscreen models, the latest stats show. Apple came top of the touchphone charts, just ahead of Nokia and followed by HTC and Samsung. Analysts at Canalys reveal that the iPhone manufacturer shipped over 25 mill...
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Symbian takes on Google Android by opening up
The Symbian operating system - the world's most popular smartphone platform, associated most with Nokia phones - has been made open source. From now on developers will be able to download free source code and experiment with it, paving the way for faster and more exciting development of mobile ...
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Japanese develop mobile to keep tabs on staff
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