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Emergency alerts system: a lifesaving service or a threat to privacy?
The new conditions that have been heaped onto Rogers as a result of the Rogers-Shaw merger could end up benefiting Canadian consumers and the economy at large.
Your phone doesn’t even need to ping for you to be distracted. Here’s how to reclaim your focus.
The deployment of 5G networks depends on the compatibility of the instruments and protocols of a handful of industry players.
Some contracts are set to rise by more than inflation, here’s how to reduce the cost of living impact of such bills.
Some US law enforcement agencies are using a commercial app that tracks people all day long via their phones – without a court order or oversight.
Mobile apps are sometimes ‘regionalized’ to better serve the needs of users, functioning differently in, for example, China than in Canada. But some of those differences pose security and privacy risks.
Is it true our phones are dangerous for aircraft navigation? An expert explains.
Canada is connected to the Democratic Republic of Congo through the global economy, international peacekeeping efforts and migration. We must not ignore violence because it’s far away.
Classrooms should not be a free-for-all TikTok fest. But we need to support children to learn how to concentrate and function in a digitally-saturated world.
One option is for schools to develop mobile phone policies together with children and parents.
To date, the program has provided nearly $10 million to roughly 137,000 of the country’s poorest citizens.
The introduction of these technologies in Ghana has created an enabling platform for consumers to use their mobile phones to pay for goods and services
Many drivers still use mobile phones despite the fact that it’s illegal.
The idea seems to make sense: if the system can predict your intended word before you type it, this should save you time. But that’s not necessarily the case.
A post-pandemic healthcare service in Ghana and beyond may usefully incorporate elements of mobile health programmes.
Mobile phones are enhancing the lives of internally displaced people in Nigeria.
Wireless earphones have freed us from devices. It’s tempting to wear them all day for phone calls, podcasts and music but research into hearing aids suggests this can create a sticky problem.
Watch Lotti Tajouri explain how mobile phones are vectors for bacteria and viruses, why this is a problem in our hospitals, and how you can sanitise your phone to help stop the spread of disease.
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Professor of Strategy, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor, Computer Networking and Telecommunications, University of Salford
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Senior Lecturer in Networking, The Open University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Informatics and Operations, Kingston University
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Associate professor, RMIT University
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Senior Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Durham University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The Open University
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Former Academic Research Fellow, Khalifa University
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Senior Lecturer, Industrial Design, UNSW Sydney
