Posts Tagged ‘cellphone’

Iridium May Launch Mainstream Satellite Phone Service

Wolfgang Gruener in Business on September 06
 

Here could be one option for you to get rid of your cell phone carrier: Upgrade to a satellite phone. Iridium said it will host an event tomorrow at which it will unveil a personal communication service. Will this be the Iridium Motorola envisioned in the late 1980s?

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82% Of American Adults Own A Cellphone

Kurt Bakke in Business Science & Research on September 02
 

A new study shows that cellphone penetration has reached 82% among the U.S. adult population, with higher education groups reaching up to 90%.

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Can Sony Reinvent the Flip Phone?

Kurt Bakke in Products on August 22
 

Sony says it has developed a new cable technology for use in mobile devices that can replace more than 20 individual cables with just one cable. The single wire interface is already on its way into production and is expected to enable a new class of flip phones.

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Whoa! Cellphone Usage May Reduce Cancer Risk

Wolfgang Gruener in Science & Research on May 17
 

The upcoming Interphone study provides new data describing how talking on a cellphone affects your health, especially the development of cancer. 10,000 study participants, thousands of individual results were believed to answer, once and for all, the question how brain cancer is related to cell phone usage. Unfortunately, the study raises about as many questions as it answers.

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