Hacked Feature Phone Can Block Other People's Calls
Seifert's group modified the embedded software, or "firmware," on a chip called the baseband processor, the component of a mobile phone that controls how it communicates with a network's transmission towers. In normal situations, when a call or SMS is …
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Cell Phones Deployed to Help Measure Happiness
Cell Phones Deployed to Help Measure Happiness Add another "app" to our cell phone menu as researchers investigate the manner by which the environment influences our pursuit of happiness. In this case, the ubiquity of cell phones can make them into a …
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Why are we so frightened of NOT having a mobile phone? Half of us fear being …
Consumers are now so dependent on their gadgets that one fifth of mobile phone owners check their emails in bed and nearly half take their devices to the beach while on holiday. Dependent: Women are 17 per cent more likely to suffer anxiety if they …
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Constant Mobile Phone Usage, a Threat to Brain Cell – Expert
Ososgbo — A Medical Practitioner with Federal Medical Centre, Ekiti, Dr. Kayode Oyebode, on Saturday said that constant use of mobile phones could damage the brain. Oyebode said this while fielding questions in Osogbo. He said that the heat generated …
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Study: 1-in-10 UK 5-year-olds have mobile phones
When they turn 5 years old, most children are just learning to tell time. However, kids may soon have to learn to master synchronizing Google Now's reminder functionality with the Keep app. That's because a tenth of all 5-year-olds are given mobile …
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