smartphones

Research in Britain has found that our all-encompassing magical devices are "doing us in" by adding an average of two hours work per day. Even though smartphones are supposed to make life easier, it also seems to turn us into workaholics.As reported by The Daily Mail, research by technology retailer ...

Last month, we gave you the low-down on internet prophet Mary Meeker's 2012 Internet Trends. One of the things that Meeker pointed out is that mobile traffic is growing at a tremendous rate, accounting for nearly 10% of all internet traffic. Interestingly, 3G subscriptions only account for 18% of the ...

Yes, there are over a billion mobile phone users in China. Considering the population of the country is around 1.3-billion, that means that more than 76% of Chinese citizens have one. Wow.The latest stats, released by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), show that there are ...

I am, admittedly, not as bad as my mother when it comes to understanding the technological trappings of our modern world. I am even sometimes able to provide her with technical support when she calls me with her problems and queries (examples include "how do I like something on Facebook?" ...

The war between Apple and Samsung has seen the two tech giants battle it out in court and in the advertising arena. The prize at stake? Smartphone dominance.The two are already the biggest players in the field, with tech research company Juniper Research estimating that nearly 60% of the ...

Micro Electronic Mechanical Systems (MEMS) are crucial pieces of equipment in our smartphones and tablets. You might take them for granted, or might not even know what they are, but 4-billion are set to be built into our mobile devices by 2016.MEMS include accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers and others such ...

China has the world’s largest online population, topping out at over 500-million users. That’s interesting enough in its own right.More interesting though, is the fact that over a third of those users only use mobile devices to access the internet.That’s one of the key findings of a new ...

MXit, the free instant messaging and social media platform, has been in the news lately, primarily because it was acquired by World of Avatar, a South African investment group lead by Alan Knott Craig Junior, last year.Where MXit has excelled in the pre-smartphone market has been in connecting to other ...

A brand new mobi-site is looking to bring QR codes and geotagging to the tertiary education sector.The site is a mobile extension of content provider LexisNexis’ established online education portal MyAcademic.The company claims that the mobi-site acts not only as "an interactive space for students" but can also ...

More and more people get smartphones every day. It’s only natural, therefore, that they should play an increasingly important role in the mobile health sector. In fact, high-tech analysis firm Juniper Research reckons that some 3-million smartphone users will be using their devices for remote health monitoring by 2016.The ...