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Nokia 'Amber' Update Rolling Out to Lumia Smartphones

2013-08-16 22:34:37| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide

Nokia is rolling out its "Amber" update for Lumia smartphones, which adds "a wide range of new and improved features and apps," the firm said.

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Back to the future: Microsoft develops acoustic P2P file transfer tech for smartphones

2013-08-15 20:05:43| Extremetech

In a bold, technologically retrograde move that will strike fear into anyone who surfed the internet before the advent of DSL and cable, Microsoft Research has devised an acoustic file transfer protocol for mobile devices. That's acoustic, as in, the same way that your 56k modem connected to the internet via a stream of modulated bleeps and screeches. This technique, called peer-to-peer acoustic NFC, allows any two mobile devices to transfer files as long as they have a speaker and a microphone -- no special hardware, such as NFC, WiFi, or Bluetooth is required.

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Smartphones sales top feature phones

2013-08-15 08:40:37| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Smartphone sales exceed feature phone sales for the first time in the April-to-June period, according to research firm Gartner.

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'Smart bins' spy on Londoners' smartphones

2013-08-12 13:15:12| InfoWorld: Top News

A London startup has equipped 12 public recycling bins in the city to track passersby via their smartphones. The bins display advertising that's customized for each phone tracked. You know, like in Minority Report. Not only do they not have the option to opt in, the tracked pedestrians aren't even notified that they're being tracked. In an early test, the devices tracked more than 750,000 individual phones in a 24-hour period.

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RFaxis Sets New Cost-Performance Standard Of Wi-Fi RF Front-End Solutions For Smartphones

2013-08-08 08:57:31| wirelessdesignonline News Articles

RFaxis, Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company focused on developing innovative, next-generation RF solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets, announced recently that it has begun volume production of RFX8422S, the industry's first and only single-chip/single-die Wi-Fi/Bluetooth combo RF Front-end IC (RFeIC) in pure CMOS.

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