(AP)—Many people use their smartphones to watch video, play games and wake them up in the morning. Some even use them to generate digital boarding passes to fly. So why not use phones to buy stuff at retail stores as well?
Business
Feb 26, 2014
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A recent study published in the journal Leisure Studies, 'iPod use and the perception of social introversion' by Benjamin R. Garner (University of Kansas), discusses the effects that iPod use has on society and social interaction.
Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 26, 2014
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(AP)—I typically have headphones on when I'm home in New York, whether it's during a jog or a commute. I often crank the volume up, at the risk of hearing loss, so that I could hear my favorite podcasts over loud subways ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 26, 2014
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Researchers have been given a share of £3 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to counter cyber-criminals who are using malicious apps which can collude with each other to infect the ...
Software
Feb 26, 2014
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A genus of cockroach in the poorly studied family Corydiidae has been revised for the first time since 1920. The revision has resulted in the discovery and description of 39 new species of Arenivaga, a genus which previously ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 26, 2014
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In Australia, honeyeaters are far and away the most abundant and important nectar-feeding birds, so also the most important avian pollinators of flowers.
Plants & Animals
Feb 26, 2014
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A study of the jaws of one of the earliest known limbed vertebrates shows the species still fed underwater, not on land.
Plants & Animals
Feb 26, 2014
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The Arctic is home to a growing number of whales and ships, and to populations of sub-Arctic whales that are expanding their territory into newly ice-free Arctic waters.
Plants & Animals
Feb 26, 2014
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New images from the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA) telescope provide the most detailed view yet of stellar nurseries within the Snake nebula. These images offer new insights into how cosmic seeds can grow into massive ...
Astronomy
Feb 26, 2014
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Growth in global smartphone sales is slowing, pressuring manufacturers to bring down prices to win customers in new markets, a research firm said Wednesday.
Business
Feb 26, 2014
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