New initiative with old handsets halves rates of the disease in southern Tanzania – and is being applied to other conditions, too.
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Mobile phones – Análisis y Comentarios
Banning pedestrians from using their phones seems a natural extension of the prohibition against mobile phone use while driving.
New research shows young men are more likely to make friends but women tend to have the strongest friendships.
What can be done about the lack of connectivity in remote areas?
Insecurity by design, as the FBI or UK government would have it, is pouring petrol on an already raging fire.
If you use a tablet device to keep a child quiet at the dining table or other event then you could be limiting their social skills. That could have an impact on the way they behave later in life.
In the age of the smartphone, it’s often hard to switch off after work. Here’s how employment law can help.
There are precious, and toxic, minerals in our old mobile phones. Far better to recycle them than dump them in the trash.
ABC’s Catalyst episode “Wi-Fried” claimed that mobile phones and Wi-Fi might be a cancer risk, but the leading experts are not so convinced.
A third of families living below poverty level access the Internet only through their phones. And young people from these families get access to few learning opportunities.
The next generation of mobile technology, 5G, is not all hype. History shows there have been big developments between past mobile generations.
Motorola brought to market many features of mobile phones we take for granted, but it wasn’t enough.
Moving from microwave to millimetre wave wireless would see base station costs fall and bring an end to drop-outs and dead-zones.
It happened before, it could happen again: Ofcom’s 200% price hike could stifle UK telecoms investment and pass costs on to customers.
Mobile operators’ business models mean millions of phones are sat around unused.
Researchers have found that allowing use of mobile phones in schools harms low-achieving and low-income students the most.
If the money is in the cloud, it makes sense to take as many users there as possible.
With low-income kids unable to participate in the social media conversations of their wealthier peers, a new form of digital inequity is emerging.
There are still many Australians who don’t have regular access to the internet. We must do more to bridge the digital divide and accommodate a diversity of technologies.
Web users are increasingly mobile and Google has updated its vital search ranking algorithm to suit - sites that haven’t moved with the times will suffer.
With more people using the web from hand-held devices the search giant Google wants you to see more mobile-friendly websites.
Mobile networks are making the transition to 5G technology, promising faster data transfer and improved coverage.
Without labouring the point, Xavier Dolan’s new film explores the hemmed in existence of the mobile generation.
Take SIM cards out of the equation, and mobile phone operators will have to work harder for their customers.
Can the NSA and GCHQ really listen to your phone? Should we be concerned if they could?