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New Study Warns that Cell Phone Use May Slightly Increase Cancer Risk
PUBLISHED: Wednesday, November 04, 2009
An extensive study overseen by the World Health Organization has found that cell phone use may cause a slight but measurable increase in several types of tumors, some of which are dangerous.

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Carriers and their Customers Could Benefit from a Different Business Model
PUBLISHED: 10/4/2009  BY: AWright
In his latest editorial, Antoine Wright points out that power-users expose a different kind of thinking to mobile carriers; what could the benefits be if they re-tuned their business models to that kind of thinking?
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PhotoInbox Adds Images to S60 Text Notifications
PUBLISHED: 3/15/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
PhotoInbox from MojosStudios is for those who are bored by the simple text notifications of incoming messages provided by their S60 smartphone. This application gives users a full-screen photo of the sender instead.
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Brighthand's Predictions for 2009
PUBLISHED: 1/4/2009  BY: Ed Hardy
Continuing a long Brighthand tradition, Ed Hardy has once again made some predictions for what's going to happen in the mobile market during the next twelve months.
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iPhone and iPod touch Software Development Tools Finally Coming Next Week
PUBLISHED: 2/27/2008  BY: Ed Hardy
Apple has just admitted it's going to miss its self-imposed February deadline to releasing the tools that developers will need to create of native programs for the iPhone and iPod touch, but not by much.
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Unbranded/Unlocked Treo 500 Coming Next Month
PUBLISHED: 12/24/2007  BY: Ed Hardy
This fall, Vodafone launched the Treo 500v, making it the first telecom to offer this Windows Mobile 6 Standard smartphone. In January, Palm, Inc. plans to release a version of this device that's not linked to any one telecom.
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The Coming 4G War
PUBLISHED: 12/19/2007  BY: Adama D. Brown
In his latest editorial, Adama Brown compares the standards that will be going head to head in the growing battle to be the preeminent wireless technology.
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Companies Working to Improve Compatibility of Mobile Linux Applications
PUBLISHED: 12/10/2007  BY: Ed Hardy
The Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS) has completed work on a standard that it hopes will bring cross compatibility to applications and services deployed on Linux-based phones.
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Treo 750 Without Carrier Branding Now Available
PUBLISHED: 12/5/2007  BY: Ed Hardy
Palm, Inc. is now offering an unlocked "generic" version of the Treo 750 that can be used with any telecom that uses the GSM standard.
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European iPhone Launch Now Imminent
PUBLISHED: 11/8/2007  BY: Adama D. Brown
The Apple iPhone is slated to see release in large parts of Europe starting this Friday, with three different carriers each having an exclusive on the device in a different country.
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Palm OS II Officially Bumped Back to 2009
PUBLISHED: 10/25/2007  BY: Ed Hardy
Palm, Inc.'s new chairman, Jon Rubinstein, has admitted that his company is 18 months away from launching smartphones running a new Linux-based operating system.
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The Good, The Bad, and the Just Plain Annoying
PUBLISHED: 10/12/2007  BY: Adama D. Brown
It's not unusual for customers dealing with their wireless carriers to get bad service, but in his latest editorial Adama Brown recounts an especially bad example, which causes him to wonder if there's something wrong with the whole industry.
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The European iPhone Will/Won't Have 3G
PUBLISHED: 9/11/2007  BY: Ed Hardy
Too many leaks have surfaced for there to be any real doubt that Apple intends to launch the iPhone in Europe later this year. But there is an area of major debate: whether this device will offer 3G cellular-wireless networking.
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