Sentences with phrase «of mobile phone technology»

The high uptake of mobile phone technology has triggered intense competition amongst the three major players: Econet

The high uptake of mobile phone technology has triggered intense competition amongst the three major players: Econet, Telecel and Netone along with traditional banking and financial institutions.

The world of mobile phone technology is growing and Samsung is not left behind in this.When am buying a phone, i look at the battery life 3000 mAh for Samsung Galaxy Note end is not too bad.

Phone Use While Driving As Dangerous As DUI With the advent of mobile phone technology comes a new menace to road safety and human lives.

Few interventions have specifically focused on decreasing and interrupting sedentary time and even less is known about the role of mobile phone technology.

Huzar explains that there were no apps at the time that took advantage of mobile phone technology like the ability to quickly take a photo of an item and post it.

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The deployment of such technology is the latest move by a Canadian bank to beef up its digital capabilities as customers increasingly conduct their banking on mobile phones and computers, rather than over the phone or in a brick - and - mortar branch.

Intellifusion, a Shenzhen - based AI firm that provides technology to the city's police to display the faces of jaywalkers on large LED screens at intersections, is now talking with local mobile phone carriers and social media platforms such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to develop a system where offenders will receive personal text messages as soon as they violate the rules, according to Wang Jun, the company's director of marketing solutions.

The U.S. Department of Defense has already stopped selling mobile phones and modems made by the Chinese technology companies Huawei and ZTE in stores on its military bases, citing potential security risks.

Items from the modern cabinet of wonders, such as GPS and radar and mobile - phone technology and flight - tracker apps that let you follow planes from your pocket, hand us an illusory sense of control - a notion that we have, through gadgetry, rendered the world finite.

Even before GPS technology was common, mobile phones worked using the same principles the Greeks used to determine their location, but instead of stars, cell towers triangulate the position of a mobile user.

Augmented reality is a type of technology best exemplified by the hit summer mobile game Pokémon Go, in which players could use their smartphones to hunt digital creatures that are overlaid onto the real world with the help of their phones» sensors and cameras.

A January 2014 fact sheet from the Pew Research Center about mobile technology found that, as of May 2013, 63 percent of adult cell owners use their phones to go online, and more shockingly, 34 percent of Internet users go online mostly using their phones.

This infrastructure, widely available at Canadian retailers, can now serve the coming wave of mobile payment technologies, either via specialty apps or near - field communications (NFC) that allows you to pay by holding your phone next to a cash register.

It's safe to say that without it, virtually none of the digital technologies that we take for granted today — from DVDs to mobile phones, ink jet printers to DSL broadband — would be possible.

As the technology inside mobile phones becomes more sophisticated — and the communicating technologies and beacons that locate consumers» mobile devices have become more prevalent and invisible — the concept of «opting in» has taken a back seat in the marketing world.

He also points to the breakup of big phone companies, which in turned spurred competition that led to mobile technologies and all the smart phone wonders we have today.

Since mobile phones are one of the most widely deployed technologies in history, it makes sense that mobile will start driving global Internet penetration, which currently stands at 36 %.

The companies had about 20 lawsuits pending over uses of patents in mobile phones, wireless connectivity, Internet video, and other technologies.

However, if you want to take advantage of the latest trends — such as banking on your mobile phone or making deposits in ATM machines without deposit slips — a big bank is likely to stay more current with new technology, Hausinger says.

Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos and videos across its apps: the company is acquiring Magic Pony Technology, a company based out of London that has developed techniques of using neural networks (systems that essentially are designed to think like human brains) and machine learning to provide expanded data for images — used, for example, to enhance a picture or video taken on a mobile phone; or to help develop graphics for virtual reality or augmented reality applications.

Policymakers and mobile phone companies have said the next generation of wireless signals needs to be much faster and far more responsive to allow advanced technologies like virtual surgery or controlling machines remotely.

The IDC Study features ten emerging companies that are innovating and excelling with a variety of mobile and wireless technology solutions including: mobile marketing, couponing, analytics, smart grid enablement, TV and video on demand — even for traditional phones, mobile money services, mobile enterprise Apps and product life - cycle management.

When asked where they believe the biggest risks for insider trading lie, 44 % of respondents said that they believe it is firms with an attitude of being untouchable among the top level of management, compared to 24 % of people who felt this way in January 2016; 35 % think the biggest risk is rogue employees, down from 59 % of respondents; and 21 % think it is the ease of circumventing company monitoring through work around technologies, such as gaming stations and disposable mobile phones, up from 17 % in 2016.

In fact, there seems to be a lot of confusion concerning blockchain technology and mobile phones on the part of the manufacturers themselves.

The Hualong One, developed by two state - owned companies, is one multibillion - dollar facet of the Communist Party's aspirations to transform China into a creator of profitable technology from mobile phones to genetics.

Chances are, Google already fulfills a lot of your technology needs, but soon, they could be providing you mobile phone service too.

EC members estimate that the new media - the web of technologies that includes telephones, laser discs, satellites, mobile phones, fax machines, and computers - will supply 12 percent of the EC's GNP and employ over 60 percent of its workers.

These words were common among the 20,000 messages received when CNN and mobile technology company Jana.com carried out a mobile phone survey in 11 countries asking Africans: What would be the impact of an African pope on the continent, or you?

Since we joined PayPal, it has been such a fast and seamless transition because of our shared vision: to empower merchants with one of the leading mobile payment technologies and to drive shopper engagement through loyalty, offers and rewards, regardless of which mobile phone or platform people chose to use.

IRRI Contact for IP and Technology Transfer Dr. Remy Bitoun, Head of Public - Private Engagement Office International Rice Research Institute Email: Phone: [phone] - ext 2725 Mobile: [phone] Web: www.irri.org

Nathan Morgan has been a technology professional for 16 years and has diverse hands - on experience starting off with a couple of years of mobile phone SMT repair.

• Over half of parents say they only play with their children occasionally a third say they simply don't have the time to play, and 1 in 6 fathers say they do not know how to play with their child Then there is the allure of technology with so many parents concerned nowadays that their children would prefer to communicate with their mobile phone than with their family!

This year's theme «Think B4 U Post» aims to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world.

HUMAN's new mobile payment technology will allow users to store monetary and credit card value on their phones via a safe mobile app thus creating ease in transactions and allowing cashless payments at the point of sale.

We're used to seeing ads on mobile devices based on where we are, but the technology is moving beyond straightforward geotargeting Whether it's being used to market food or fashion at the shopping mall, or pushing a political platform and agenda, the geolocation capability of most smart phones and smartpads means «geofencing» is taking over as a tactic.

Many of our political or advocacy organizations have similar important traditions, but that doesn't mean they can't evolve and become more inclusive of modern technology — for this conclave, the Vatican News service created a web livestream and mobile phone app for people who wanted to see the Chimney.

Speaking at a the 3rd West Africa telecommunications summit in Accra, Mr Sarpong said with evolving technology, the telecommunication companies must collaborate with the broadcasting industry on the possibility of viewing media content especially television programmes on mobile phone as prevails in the developed world.

«We have always been able, on the authority of the home secretary, to sign a warrant and intercept a phone call, a mobile phone call or other media communications, but the question we must ask ourselves is whether, as technology develops, we are content to leave a safe space — a new means of communication — for terrorists to communicate with each other.

Stressing the importance of mundane internet tools in processes of political mobilization (really one should include mobile phones in this, something I hope to research more in the future) does not mean that these tools are the most important internet technologies for all political processes (fundraising, PR, etc) let alone all social processes (online banking, open software development), or in all contexts (think «digital divide»).

He introduced the ROBOCOP or the Repeated Objectionable Bothers of Consumers on Phones Act which would require both landline and mobile carriers to offer free robocall blocking technology to all consumers.

It lives primarily online, in draft letters, petitions, communiques: what the technology guru Howard Rheingold calls a «smartmob», an online manifestation of «swarm intelligence», whose members remain dispersed until called together by mobile phone or email.

The survey, which also collected information on households» access to information and communication technology (ICT) and patterns of usage, found that about 89 per cent of Nigerians have access to a mobile phone, adding that access to the internet was more prevalent in urban areas than in rural areas — the most common uses being to send and receive emails.

Reading e-mails, text messages and other information without having to get your mobile phone out of your pocket could soon be possible via technology being developed by researchers at Ulm University in Germany.

Because of increased use of CCTV, images captured on mobile phones and automatic face recognition technology, the comparison of facial images to identify suspects has become an important source of evidence.

The survey queried patrons on their experiences with 15 technologies in five categories, some of which were tablet - based ordering by the customer, mobile applications, kiosk - based ordering, payment processes using smart credit cards or smart phones, and queue management (pagers for wait - time management).

The increasing use of mobile technology in today's society has made information stored in the memory of smart phones just as important as evidence recovered from traditional crime scenes.

«Manufacturers of rechargeable batteries are building on the proven lithium - ion technology, which has been deployed in mobile devices like laptops and cell phones for many years,» reports TUM researcher Michael Metzger.

Mobile phones have been used to map the spread of malaria in east Africa, and now cellular technology has even been turned to measuring rainfall.

The team originally tested their analysis on a handheld prototype, made from a range of off the shelf materials, but Dr Iris Choi, Technology Associate at Oxford University and the paper's co-author, is confident that the system could be miniaturised, and turned into a practical component for a mobile phone, such as Nokia, who were a partner in the research.