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Are Emoji racists? 24 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
Perhaps you haven't noticed, but if you look closely among iOS's default Keyboard options, you'll notice that, among emoji with clearly delineated ethnicities, only a handful appear to be non-Caucasia...
Pew survey finds mobile banking on the rise in U.S. 24 Aug 2013 | 01:10 am
About one-third (32 percent) of U.S. adults, or 35 percent of cellphone owners, nowbank using their mobile phones, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center's Pew Internet & American Life Proje...
Researchers use mobile phones to measure happiness 23 Aug 2013 | 01:08 pm
Researchers at Princeton University are developing ways to use mobile phones to explore how one's environment influences one's sense of well-being. [via Princeton Blog]. In a study involving voluntee...
Mobile Advertising Will Sprint Past Desktop Ads In Four Short Years 22 Aug 2013 | 02:21 pm
According to a new report from eMarketer, mobile ad revenues will surpass those of desktop ads by 2017. That sprint will be led by search ads, which have seen mobile revenues rocket from only 2% of al...
Study: Consumers are using apps for shorter bursts of time 21 Aug 2013 | 03:46 pm
Consumers are using apps for shorter bursts of time and opting to "snack" on content more frequently, according to newly released data. stuff reports. A record 70 billion smartphone and tablet apps a...
Eye surgeon blames smartphones for increase in myopia 20 Aug 2013 | 02:21 am
An eye surgeon in the U.K. has noticed a 35 percent increase in the number of patients diagnosed with advancing myopia (short sightedness) which he believes is being cause by smartphones. Techspot rep...
Texting Your Feelings Symbol by Symbol 19 Aug 2013 | 02:38 am
The increasing use of emoji icons — colorful symbol alphabet that contains nearly a thousand images of cute animals, food items and expressive smiley faces can sometimes convey what words cannot — can...
Coinbase now lets you send, buy or sell Bitcoin via SMS 16 Aug 2013 | 01:15 pm
Coinbase, the one-year old Bitcoin startup that landed a $5 million investment earlier this year, is opening its virtual currency banking system up to the masses after introducing SMS-based actions. [...
Ramadan through camera phones around the world 15 Aug 2013 | 11:59 am
New York-based filmmaker Bassam Tariq shares the most beautiful images from his story project, 30Days/Ramadan, where photos from the Muslim holy month of Ramadan reveal that media stereotypes of Musli...
Smartphones Outsell Feature Phones for the First Time 15 Aug 2013 | 02:44 am
More smartphones were sold in the second quarter of 2013 than feature phones, the first time that has happened, according to a Garner report published Wednesday, reports the WSJ. Gartner said smartph...
