Category: Mobile Internet
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African Farmers Use SMS To Optimize The Harvest Management
Vast African continent continues to develop and many companies see potential in this region. This is particularly the case of Orange, the French mobile operator, which has set up a service for African farmers to optimize the management of their production through SMS. We tell you more about this simple and ingenious process. Agriculture plays…
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ISOSCOPE: Explore Distance You Can Travel In 10 Minutes
Perhaps stranded in public transport a developer had this brilliant idea: to create the website ISOSCOPE. This is an interactive site to let you know how far you can walk in 10 minutes. A great initiative that does not solve the problem of traffic Jams but perhaps may convince you to walk rather than drive. Going…
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Your computer Might Be Infected With Spyware Computrace
What if your laptop or desktop computer was infected with a virtually undetectable spyware? The same argument has been made by Kaspersky which is a company specializing in antivirus. It estimates that more than 2 million computers worldwide are affected by spywares! We decrypt the case for you and inform you about how to know if…
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Siri’s New App Lets You Control Your Home Accessories With An iPhone
With the advent of new technologies, life is becoming more easy and comfortable. The voice recognition technology, despite of its age, remains as one of the most fascinating areas of research and development. For example, using the voice, iPhone’s personal assistant Siri helps you set a reminder or find your destination on the map. Students…
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Nearby Friends: A Facebook App To Let About Your Friends in Radius of 1 Km
‘Facebook always comes up with something new and exciting. This time once again, Facebook has come up with an app “Nearby Friends” that will tell you about your friends present around you within 1 km radius. It is currently being tested in USA. To get to know about the your friends’ locations, application must be…
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Rufus Cuff: A Wrist Watch That Is A Smartphone
Idea of a smartphone on the wrist watch is not a new one, it has been in the working since many years. Two famous companies Omate TrueSmart and Neptune Pine are also working on it. The issue with these devices is their small screen size. But Rufus has introduced a new trend by introducing its…
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Build With Chrome App Enables You To Build virtual LEGO buildings Anywhere In The World (Video)
Google and LEGO have collaborated to design an unlikely but quite funny application! You can now build virtual buildings using colored LEGO bricks and place them anywhere on the world you want. Discover this absolutely brilliant app. Build with Chrome has been in testing since 2012, and it was recently made available to all. This app is…
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China Restricts Its Web Users To Prove Their Identity Before Uploading A Video
The Chinese government is now implementing a new measure to control the video publishers on the internet. The internet users now have to first prove their identity before uploading a video on a video sharing site. This decision is being implemented by the State Administration for Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China. The…
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The Pursuit Internet: Scientists Want To Create Peer-To-Peer Distributed Internet Instead Of Servers
Internet has now spread to most parts of the world and there are performance and server overloading problems. In order to solve this problem, some researchers are working on a new way to connect to the web, inspired by the peer-to-peer model: the “Internet Pursuit”. We explain this innovation in detail. This project builds on…
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Infographic: What’s happening on the internet in a minute?
Intel has released an infographic showing what happens in a minute on the world wide web known as Internet. It shows for example that internet subscribers look at 20 million photographs, upload 3000 photographs and send 204 million e-mails. There are more than 2 million google searches. People listen to 61,141 hours of music. There are 1.3…