Latest smart phone Stories
Executives from AT&T said earlier this week that the communications giant will see record-breaking quarterly sales numbers for smart phone devices, with new Apple iPhones leading the charts, reports Mark Hachman for PC Mag. More than 1 million iPhone 4S phones were activated within the first five days of the device being available. AT&T chief financial officer and senior executive vice president John Stephens said at a recent communications conference in New York, that customers...
Procura is pleased to announce that after the successful launch of Procura Mobile for the BlackBerry® smart phone, they will be delivering Procura Mobile for Android. This is the next phase of their smart phone solution for the Home Care marketplace, transferring the rich feature set already found on the BlackBerry® platform. Simplifying administration processes and enhancing communication, Procura Mobile facilitates improved delivery of care and patient safety while decreasing...
TORRANCE, Calif., Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Toyota Financial Services (TFS) has just launched a first-of-its-kind iPhone app which incorporates personalized QR code technology allowing customers to access their accounts through their smart phone. Unlike other bill payer apps, customers who download the TFS app may use their smart phone or iPad2 to simply scan a personalized QR code found on their billing statement and have instant access to their account. While utilizing the QR code...
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C., Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Grow The Game (GTG) Golf, a revolutionary smart phone application and event management system that enables live scoring in a variety of formats, has been named the official live scoring provider for the Golfweek Golf Industry Cup tournament. The tournament will use a Ryder Cup format and be held at Pelican Hill Golf Club in Newport Beach, Calif., November 12-13, 2011. The Golf Industry Cup will pit a number of employees from prominent golf...
A lull in demand for Apple iPhones has apparently given smart phone maker HTC a push to become the largest smart phone vendor in the United States last quarter, Tim Culpan and Hugo Miller of Bloomberg News report. HTC saw a 10 percent jump in share from a year earlier giving the Taoyuan, Taiwan-based HTC 24 percent of the world’s largest smart phone market in the third quarter, ahead of Samsung at 21 percent and Apple just behind at 20 percent. There is some debate however on tech...
Friday October 14th marks the release of Apple's latest smart phone, the iPhone 4S. When the iPhone 4S was made available for pre-order on October 6th, over 1 million were sold on the first day. Phone Doctors reveals often overlooked techniques to upgrading to the iPhone 4S with no out of pocket expense. Tulsa, OK (PRWEB) October 14, 2011 Most consumers may not realize that when purchased outside of contract, the iPhone 4S retails at $650 and up. This is about the price of an...
WPI researchers turn a smart phone into a medical monitor. An iPhone app that measures the user's heart rate is not only a popular feature with consumers, but it sparked an idea for a Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher who is now turning smart phones, and eventually tablet devices, into sophisticated medical monitors able to capture and transmit vital physiological data. A team led by Ki Chon, professor and head of biomedical engineering at WPI, has developed a smart phone...
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- (PINKSHEETS: AERS) Tests of a new Aerius smart phone were completed today by Cetecom Inc., an independent FCC certified lab in Milpitas, California. The tests showed the new Aerius phone reduced SAR (the Specific Absorption Rate of handset signals into users) 96.75% below the US limit of 1.6 W/kg, and 97.4 % below the EU limit of 2W/kg. Cetecom labs are known internationally for phone certification in the cellular industry. State-of-the-art and...
In the next round of tit-for-tat patent and lawsuits between Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc., Samsung has announced it will file patent-infringement claims in France and Italy in hopes of banning the sale of Apple’s latest iPhone, Reuters is reporting. The legal battle between the two top brands of mobile devices intensified yesterday when Apple announced the iPhone 4S, a significant upgrade to its best-selling smart phone expected to hit store shelves later this month. In...
New BlackBerry App to Serve Nearly One-Fourth of Smart Phone Users WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Building on the success of its Apple and Android smart phone applications, the U.S. Postal Service this week launched a usps.com app for BlackBerry. The BlackBerry app will allow users to track and confirm a package, locate a Post Office, and look up a ZIP Code more quickly and easily. "Since more and more people are accessing the Internet from mobile devices, we wanted...
