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Smartphone kill-switch could save consumers $2.6 billion per year
2014-03-31 13:36:59| InfoWorld: Top News
Technology that remotely makes a stolen smartphone useless could save American consumers up to $2.6 billion per year if it is implemented widely and leads to a reduction in theft of phones, according to a new report. Law enforcement officials and politicians are pressuring cellular carriers to make such technology standard on all phones shipped in the U.S. in response to the increasing number of smartphone thefts. They believe the so-called "kill switch" would reduce the number of thefts if stolen phones were routinely locked so they became useless.
AUDIO: Smartphone banking transactions 'double'
2014-03-31 12:03:07| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
British Bankers Association chief executive Anthony Browne discusses the increasing use of smartphone apps for banking.
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NTT Docomo Smartphone Elderly Monitoring Service Launched
2014-03-31 09:19:03| Telecom - Topix.net
NTT Docomo Inc. is said to begin offering their " Tsunagari Hot Support " application software, where it will target the elderly as well as their families, and this particular app has already arrived on smartphones from the company on March 25. This particular software would now receive a new function known as "Tsunagari Hot Support", where this ... (more)
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Energous IPO: Smartphone charging from a distance gets a boost
2014-03-29 06:36:35| Wireless - Topix.net
Less than two years after forming a company, Energous managed to bring in $24 million in an initial public offering meant to help the small team complete its vision of smartphones and other devices being charged without an effort from the owner.
China's ZTE says 4G phones will be 40 percent of 2014 global smartphone shipments
2014-03-27 09:25:56| Wireless - Topix.net
ZTE Corp, the world's seventh-biggest smartphone maker, sees sales of 4G smartphones accounting for at least 40 percent of its global smartphone shipments in 2014, Zeng Xuezhong, ZTE's global head of mobile devices, told reporters at a Hong Kong press conference on Thursday.
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