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Ubuntu Based Smartphone OS to Be Released This Week Sun, 17 Feb, 2013 08:01 AM PST A preview of the open source code for the Ubuntu based smartphone operating system will be released on Thursday, the developer Canonical has announced. Life in the country: The first causality of a smartphone: Manners Sun, 17 Feb, 2013 07:42 AM PST I have discovered that if you are not 'hooked up to a computer,' and don't have a cellphone, you can be viewed by some as so old, so out of touch, that you could be viewed as a living antique. Local shops hope to boost business with locally developed app Sun, 17 Feb, 2013 05:39 AM PST Brandi Gosse, a photographer from Bay Roberts, has developed a smartphone app called Shop the Rock to allow shoppers in the province to search for deals at local retailers. Creativity flourishes at Detroit Labs, a smartphone app developer Sun, 17 Feb, 2013 04:35 AM PST Ordering pizza used to mean picking up the phone and dialing. But millions of customers now buy from Domino's Pizza directly through their mobile phones. After 3 million downloads, the Domino's smartphone application, or app, is already on track to bring in more than $150 million in revenue per year for the Ann Arbor-based pizza maker. Gen Y a bit hung up on smartphone Sun, 17 Feb, 2013 04:26 AM PST YOUNG Australians are so addicted to their smartphones that most admit using them while on the toilet and some suffer withdrawal symptoms if they’re taken away. Where iPhone Trails Android Sun, 17 Feb, 2013 04:18 AM PST Wonder how they like those Apples? According to a survey of over 92,000 smartphone users conducted by On Device Research, the iPhone 5 ranks fifth behind four Android smartphones in user satisfaction. Polytron predicts glass smartphones by end of year (w/ Video) Sun, 17 Feb, 2013 03:02 AM PST (Phys.org)â€"Polytron Technologies confidently says that this could be the very year that smartphone featuring transparent glass are available. Taiwan-based Polytron Technologies says the phones could arrive in late 2013. The company, which focuses on electronic and optical-vision glass, is a subsidiary of U.S.-based Polytronix. Polytron has been showing off a prototype smartphone that was built ... Apple and Samsung dominate market as feature phones fall behind Sun, 17 Feb, 2013 02:52 AM PST Gartner data suggests smartphones will outsell feature phones this quarter, while growth of Android and iOS means BlackBerry and Windows Phone fight it out for distant third place Smartphones will make up more than half of all mobile phones shipped worldwide by the end of March, new figures from the research company Gartner suggest. Data from the fourth quarter of 2012 show that smartphone ... Raj police go tech-savvy to check crime Sun, 17 Feb, 2013 02:32 AM PST Jaipur, Feb 17 (PTI) Rajasthan police is seeking to take a lead in coordinating its actions through specially designed smartphone applications which will enable citizens to report crime instantly using their high-end mobile phones. Farmers go digital with field apps Sun, 17 Feb, 2013 02:16 AM PST With a few touches of the screen, Dave Jauquet pulls up milk prices on his Motorola Razr Maxx smartphone.

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