Its latest innovation is its Swarm Database smartphone app which allows a fleet of beekeeping technicians who inspects hives across the country to enter troves of live data on farmers,
hives, honey and harvesting into Samsung smartphones. This information feeds into a central dashboard, which helps the company track production
On any given day it's hard to keep track of which company's smartphones, tablet computers or other products are banned temporarily in which countries.
But what's the reason for this apparently endless series of patent battles involving smartphone and tablet firms?
One reason boils down to the nature of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, according to Daniel O'connor, a self-styled antitrust and internet policy wonk as well as senior director of public policy at the Computer
That means that about 17%of all active patents in the United states are potentially patents on smartphone technology.
and Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC halted their hostilities this way. But, before this happens, companies often spend considerable sums buying up patent portfolios that they can use as bargaining chips during negotiations.
 CKWS use smartphones, but we made this decision only after extensive field testing and compelling evidence that the business case was increased stronger with functionality.
Smartphones are ideal for the task, as they already have built-in motion-detectors, gyroscopes, accelerometers,
By summer 2012 QCN expects to release an app that turns your Android smartphone into a pocket-sized earthquake sensor.
"The importance of smartphones as scientific instruments cannot be underestimated in this context: GPS provides accurate time and good location;
but are now carrying sophisticated game machines in their pockets smartphones. Software developers eager to become the next Rovio,
But the global explosion of smartphones and personal devices has taken the fakery to a more sophisticated level,
a Web-based company that allows up to six users to video chat in real time via smartphones,
#HP Buys Palm In $1. 2 Billion Takeover Hewlet-Packard takes over smartphone makers Palm.
HP had been without a credible smartphone branch of the company and the aquisition of Palm sees the worlds largest technology company move into a rising and highly profitable market.
HP has been notably absent in the smartphone category obviously, where the buzz has been dominated by the iphone,
HP is looking to emulate Apples success in the smartphone market by building a strong portfolio of applications for the webos platform.
The only other retail outlet selling ipads on Saturday was Best Buy in 2007, Apple reported selling 270,000 iphones during the new smartphones first two days of availability.
to get their hands on the smartphone. oethe ipad did pretty much what I expected, said Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research,
The ipad In 2007, Apple reported selling 270,000 iphones during the new smartphones first two days of availability.
to get their hands on the smartphone. oethe ipad did pretty much what I expected, said Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research,
lets anyone accept physical credit card payments through a smartphone or computer by plugging in a free sugar-cube-sized device no expensive card reader required.
lets anyone accept physical credit card payments through a smartphone or computer by plugging in a free sugar-cube-sized device no expensive card reader required.
Exploding Smartphone Industry With a global population exceeding 7 billion people, we have seen the mobile phone industry mushroom to include over 5 billion members.
Smartphones remain a small subset, owned by around 10%of all those with mobile phones. But not for much longer.
We are about to see virtually all communication devices replaced with smartphones over the coming decade.
As smartphones and other devices evolve in this exploding market, look for a near-term push into near-field communications, 4g,
With basic drone hardware being matched up with smartphones, and the bottom-up design capabilities of app developers around the world, drones will quickly move from the realm of personal toys to functional necessities that we interact with on a daily basis. For those of you looking to switch careers,
Lifelens has created a smartphone app to diagnose malaria. The app can magnify a drop of blood (captured via a simple finger prick)
I ve written extensively on the topic of smartphone peripherals and how the use of smartphones will expand by over 1, 000%in the coming decade.
We now have over 1 million mobile apps available for download. Putting this into perspective,
But the piece getting very little attention is the exploding field of smartphone peripherals that extend our current communication systems far beyond simple person-to-person communications.
Technology imbedded in smart contacts Photo credits Fast Company Our demand for information is growing on a daily basis. Using devices such as smartphones
and send/receive capabilities of a nearby smartphone, the very real possibilities for smart contacts being used as a replacement for current handheld displays suddenly comes within reach.
I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet,
and connects it to smartphones and tablets. Todays dominant music companies are software companies, too:
partnering with Apple and other smartphone makers. Linkedin is todays fastest growing recruiting company. For the first time ever, on Linkedin, employees can maintain their own resumes for recruiters to search in real time#iving Linkedin the opportunity to eat the lucrative $400 billion recruiting industry.
if the world is ready for a cloud-based smartphone? And theres a side question:
The venture started in 2001, before the rise of the smartphone. Early in its history, it was one of the biggest handset manufacturers along with Nokia (NYSE:
RIMM) which dominated the high end smartphone industry early. Sony Ericsson also relied on the Symbian operating system
In a period when smartphone sales worldwide are rising in the double digits and sales of the iphone double year over year,
It has a very modest presence in the rapidly growing smartphone industry which is dominated by Apple, Research in motions Blackberry, HTC, and Samsung.
Potential buyers would start with HTC, the fourth largest smartphone maker in the world. Its sales have doubled in both the last quarter and the last year.
LG Electronics, the 7th largest company in South korea, with sales of $48 billion, is by most measures the third largest smartphone company.
A new smartphone app allows users with no formal training to satisfy their curiosity and contribute to science at the same time.
Yougov research, commissioned by digital payments provider Intelligent Environments, says 42 per cent of smartphone users want to use their phones as mobile wallets.
while addressing a couple of perceived flaws in the operating system when used for tablets as opposed to smartphones,
But it lost its early lead in the smartphone market to Android, which Google gives away to hardware vendors and
which became the number one smartphone operating system in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to research firm Canalys.
who in some stores can wave a smartphone above an apple or orange and learn instantly where it was grown,
Shoppers can scan the sticker with a smartphone or go to the Harvestmark website and enter the number from the sticker to learn the path the food has taken
What if your smartphone could tell from your breath that you re about to get a cold?
and hire thousands of additional workers to make smartphones, it plans to install more than a million robots within a few years to supplement its work force in China.
are more complex to make than smartphones. The assembly line here is made up of dozens of glass cages housing robots made by Adept Technology that snake around the factory floor for more than 100 yards.
#America s love affair with the smartphone has helped create tens of thousands of jobs at places like Best Buy
and will transmit brain scans directly to smartphones and tablet computers. We re using sleep, #Low says,
More recent innovations like social networking, smartphones, and mobile apps are also becoming old news. Every major industry of the past provides the foundational underpinning for industries of the future.
The number of smartphones sold now exceeds the number of PCS sold. That transition happened last year.
Globally today there are 5. 6 billion dumbphone#users compared to 835 million smartphone#users. In the U s. we are already about halfway through the process of converting over to all smartphones.
Still, 12%have no cellphone at all. Globally, the dumbphone conversion cycle is started just getting. Tablet sales will pass PC sales in 2-3 years.
Smartphones, tablets, 3d television, and supporting peripherals were everywhere. But as the industry was getting sucked towards the gravitational allure of these technologies, many others,
but for most exhibitors their so-called smart clothing has little more than pockets for smartphones or space for video nametags.
) Disposable Batteries for Smartphones At CES there was no shortage of battery companies. Virtually any object that needs power has a battery vendor exhibiting several different options.
But as of yet, there are no cheap disposable batteries for Smartphones. Yes, it is indeed a bad idea to fill landfills with more batteries,
#The machine is the size of a regular smartphone, with a 9. 4-centimeter (3. 7 in) display,
#Manufacturers to reveal first bendable gadgets that will never break A prototype Samsung Windows smartphone.
Corning, whose toughened Gorilla glass became the screen of choice for many smartphones, will provide phones with curved glass edges as soon as this year.
The free CCPL Mobile smartphone app features a Digital Books & Media channel that makes finding
#This is your brain on a smartphone A mobile junkie. When is the last time you powered your smartphone all the way down?
Try turning it all the way off now. Take your phone out and turn it off (note:
Workers whose smartphones are provided and paid for by their agency had to turn in their devices.
</p><p>Workers whose smartphones are provided and paid for by their agency had to turn in their devices.
Eventually the technology could replace the displays now used on smartphones tablets and computer screens with strikingly high definition.
On a television screen smartphone or the result of an inkjet printer pixels are arranged that absorb red green and blue from white light in combinations that produce a color image.
So each block is more like a smartphone than a balloon each block has its own computer code or DNA genome.
Think of genes as different apps on a smartphone so all the smartphones that make up your liver will have one set of apps on
Imagine you dropped a smartphone in a blender or ate it (please don t) all the components would be mashed up.
and smartphones and reconnect with the original way of learning about the world: by wandering around outside.
How Off-road Tech Aids Conservation Google earth and Google street view have made it possible for anyone with an Internet connection to explore some of the world's most spectacular destinations right from their computer tablet or smartphone.
Smartphones tablets and chimps On the other side of the world the Jane Goodall Institute an ape-conservation organization founded by renowned chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall is leading a similar effort.
The organization equips local residents in Tanzania with smartphones tablets and cloud technology to help monitor African forests said Lilian Pintea JGI's vice president of conservation science.
or its tracks they take photos with their smartphones he said. The Jane Goodall Institute uses ODK to manage all of the information
Even in the first few weeks of a forest villager getting his smartphone he reported this trap designed to capture a live primate we think either a baboon
We now have the possibility of doing something that would have been absolutely unheard of 10 years ago Steer said which is near real-time data delivered to everybody who has a laptop or a computer or a smartphone in the world.
smartphone and other consumer industries including low-cost electronics, and sensors from high-end digital cameras. Using the latest technologies from these fast-paced industries also allows the rapid
Apple's addition of a fingerprint reader in its latest smartphone the iphone 5s is part of its strategy to double down on device security. by Zack Whittaker September 10 2013 12:27 PM PDT Apple has unveiled its smartphone
A smartphone ecosystem is not unlike a neighborhood: when that 31 percent percent of $75000+households rises to 40 percent you can bet the New yorker will hurry a little bit harder to bring its digital magazine to Android.
I think they'll be able to take the middle ground in the smartphone market.
The virtual keyboards Samsung has made standard on all their*other*smartphones don't work as well for me.
I saw the first tablet and the first smartphone. Yes people like bigger screens Samsung.
get your smartphones in everyone's pockets and I believe PCS will soon die off completely.
#Apple Files For Patent On Snap-Band Watch Thingthere's been a lot of chatter about Apple creating a smartwatch--a wearable computer that syncs with a smartphone--on such publications as um this one as of late.
which allow people to use their smartphones to scan headstone codes and launch websites with an interactive life story for those who visit the grave in person or online.
With most of its sensors still working it utilizes computer power that's dwarfed by today's smartphones to send sometimes surprising data packets back to Earth-first recording them on its ancient 8-track digital tape machines before assembling them
The Finnish Environment Institute will use it in an EU project on the global effects of the smartphone business The study will examine which part of the value added is produced in developing countries
and Tobacco Free Teens a smartphone app--both are new approaches to keeping young people free from the grips of nicotine addiction.
if there are effective and persuasive visual messages that we can convey through smartphone applications to let people know what it is about these products that might make them harmful
and scale area from smartphone images explains Hsien Ming Easlon a researcher at UC Davis and one of the developers of Easy Leaf Area.
but any current smartphone camera or digital camera will do. Once the images are uploaded to a computer Easy Leaf Area can process hundreds of images and save the results to a spreadsheet-ready CSV file.
or knowledge to develop software for themselves so scientific use of smartphones is limited primarily to built-in features.
The processing power connectivity built-in sensors storage capacity and low price give smartphones great potential to replace many single-purpose devices for scientific data collection explains Easlon.
But the advent of smartphone apps with the facility to upload photos in real time which can be accessed easily on the go could be about to change that they say.
They wanted to find out how well crowdsourcing which relies on the input of several smartphone users to provide feedback
This will bring us a step closer to new applications in mobile communication systems such as sending olfactory messages by smartphone or even the development of bioelectronic noses.
The computers in the drones are similar to those used in smartphones. The Phantom which cost about $500 was a ready-to fly model equipped with a mount for a Gopro camera.
The Parrot drone which cost about $250 can be controlled with a smartphone or tablet using Apple or Android operating systems and Wi-fi signals.
We rely on the same resource for everything from smartphones to gasoline. We need to diversify
They rigged the field centre's microscopes with smartphones to produce images of the tiny spider's even tinier genitals (using cooking oil from the station's kitchen to make them more translucent) dusted the spider's webs with puffs of corn flour (also from the kitchen) to make them stand out
and their collaborators in 2002 offers the possibility that such devices may soon be as small as a typical smartphone.
or the ability of a citizen to use their smartphone to alert the city to building issues,
and syncs with your smartphone without the use of wires. With nary a rubberized extrusion or brightly-colored part (indicating it's for sport),
Self service health technology will become more and more common as the cost of sensors decrease and ubiquity of smartphone software increases,
However, IDC found that Brazilians are now buying around 21 million smartphones annually, so the potential market is substantial.
An infographic (below) created by Float Mobile Learning suggests that a growing number of North american farmers are now using smartphones
like a smartphone or tablet application. Microsoft just introduced its own version, the Smartglass, on June 4th, showing a market shift towards more innovative media experiences.
and the prototypes drew eager, smartphone-photo-snapping crowds. Some of the prototypes, such as a setup that converts a public staircase into a musical slide, were focused on fun over function.
the developers created a smartphone app that lets citizens select desired locations on an online map.
is bright for solar-powered smartphones, tablets
Video: Lockheed martin debuts maple seed-inspired dronemaple seeds. Most people admire them for being pretty and delicate
During the soba-making session, Kotani works with quiet confidence, looking up on occasion to smile shyly at the awed onlookers who are crowded around the table--two are filming the spectacle with their smartphone cameras.
Small drones are made from many of the same components as smartphones, and the economies of scale of that industry have driven the cost of gyroscopes, accelerometers, GPS chips,
In France, they have a smartphone app that sends out alerts so stores can tell consumers
notebooks, tablets, smartphones, e-readers may mean more energy used by chargers. Not all sectors of domestic use are rising.
lest they gunk up their smartphone. Dutch maker of farming technologies, Lely, recently installed their 12,
it also automates milk testing right at the milking station and pushes the data to the farmer smartphone.
and more time managing the health of their heard as a whole from their smartphone. The growing popularity of the platform is a testament to its cost-effectiveness.
but the preferred receipt was an emailed copy on a customer's smartphone. That way, the store could use it in lieu of paper to verify a purchase when the customer left the store.
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