News tagged with cell mobilization

Wearable devices track people via wireless network

Mobile technology is opening new channels for remotely monitoring family members and others who need to be tracked.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Super-nano' plastic fibres touted for next-generation IT

Materials scientists in France said on Sunday they had made highly-conductive plastic wires on the nanoscale, an invention with potential for mobile devices, computing and solar energy.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 22, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Using cell phones to detect harmful airborne substances

The lab of a University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering professor was named on Tuesday, April 3 after Innovation Economy Corporation, a Riverside company that plans to commercialize ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

China's mobile phone subscriptions top a billion

China said Friday it had broken the barrier of one billion mobile phone accounts at the end of February, as more people in the world's most populous country ditch fixed phones.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google: Technology is making science fiction real

(AP) -- Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt predicted Tuesday that rapid advances in technology will soon transform science fiction into reality - meaning people will have driverless cars, small robots ...

Technology / Business

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Cellphone use linked to selfish behavior in new study

Though cellphones are usually considered devices that connect people, they may make users less socially minded, finds a recent study from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Darpa to develop mobile millimeter-wave backhaul networks

Providing high-bandwidth communications for troops in remote forward operating locations is not only critical but also challenging because a reliable infrastructure optimized for remote geographic areas does ...

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

No future without scarce metals

It is not just in laptop computers, mobile telephones and LED screens that scarce metals are to be found but also in solar cells, batteries for mobile technologies and many other similar applications. The ...

Technology / Other

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Nokia loss tempered by Windows phone launch

Mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. on Thursday posted a fourth-quarter net loss of euro1.07 billion ($1.38 billion) as sales slumped 21 percent even as the company's first Windows smartphones hit markets in Europe and Asia.

Technology / Business

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New path to flex and stretch electronics: Researchers develop solution-based fabrication technique

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imprinting electronic circuitry on backplanes that are both flexible and stretchable promises to revolutionize a number of industries and make "smart devices" nearly ubiquitous. Among the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Making a light-harvesting antenna from scratch

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes when people talk about solar energy, they tacitly assume that we're stuck with some version of the silicon solar cell and its technical and cost limitations. Not so.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Want fuel cells? Think outside the hydrogen tank

(PhysOrg.com) -- When most people hear the words "fuel cell," they think of eco-friendly, hydrogen-powered cars that emit nothing more than water.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Industry says Africa fastest growing mobile market

(AP) -- Sure, 24-year-old Gertrude Kitongo cherishes a cell phone as a link to family and friends, from her grandmother in a Ugandan village to former schoolmates in Zimbabwe.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Three for the price of one -- mobile electrons multiplied in quantum dot films

Researchers of the Opto-electronic Materials section of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and Toyota Europe have demonstrated that several mobile electrons can be produced by the absorption of a single light ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

AT&T defends T-Mobile deal in response to DOJ suit

(AP) -- AT&T is countering the U.S. government's attempt to block its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile by depicting the deal as a way to provide consumers with better cell phone service at lower prices.

Technology / Business

created Sep 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2