There was no sign of any footballs for four days, we had no mobile phones and we had hiking boots.
Some have agreed to no mobile phones in bed or on the couch, while others try to leave the gadgetry in their pockets when they go for brunch or dinner.
All the more so in the 1970s, when meteorology was a less exact science, bus-shelters ran no digitalised information, no one had mobile phones to explain what they were doing or where they were going or when they might be expected, and pre-Raphaelite hair, beards, flares, maxi-skirts and platform shoes turned any encounter with the elements (as any attempt to descend at speed from the upper deck) into serious drama, if not trauma.
Relatively slack personal security (he had no guards and his family used mobile phones) suggests he felt at ease, perhaps protected by others.
There is no doubt that mobile is moving beyond mobile phones, smartphones and tablets into mHealth devices, home automation and remote monitoring, and other markets.
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The line of no-contract phones will be available to mobile customers at RadioShack stores nationwide beginning tomorrow.
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Imagine if the street vendors no longer rely on their non-smart mobile phones but start using web-enabled tablet computers to conduct business.
Whereas relatives are submitted to humiliating strip searches at visiting time, it is no secret that the guns, drugs, mobile phones and other items that are available on the inside are trafficked by the national guard, which is responsible for perimeter security.
Mirchandani also attends monthly "blackouts" -- three-day uninterrupted management discussions where mobile phones are banned and there is no outside access.
Skyfire has offered a browser for Windows Mobile phones since 2008, but has no plans to create one for Windows Phone 7, said Glueck.
Consider that in the late 1990s when I wrote these predictions there was no Wikipedia, no social networks, no blogs, very primitive search engines that few people used, no usable language tools, very primitive and expensive mobile phones, and so on.
No mobile company will ever know more about how people use phones than Nokia.
Carphone Warehouse wrongly told people that T-Mobile had no cancellation policy for coverage issues, while Phones 4U said that Orange did allow cancellations when it does not.
Our Web tone idea is no different from the phone network -- you have mobile phones, home phones, fax machines and modems, they all use the same network.
"The potential impact is no smaller than the shift from fixed-line phones to mobile phones, " he said.
The games were popular online, but no one had created a game simple and addictive enough for mobile phones.
There will be wi-fi in the Olympic park and data services for mobile phones are being planned but there can be no "guarantees" that network coverage will always be at the best level.
Modern nomads carry almost no paper because they access their documents on their laptop computers, mobile phones or online.
"No one wants to be tripping over television cables, or leads for mobile phones, or AV wire, " says Jiin Kim Inoue, head of design at Finchatton.
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In Mr. Zabitsky's view, Apple will lose its pricing power as mobile Web browsers become more powerful, because users will no longer need phones and tablets that support a large universe of specialized programs.
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Mobile phones make micro-entrepreneurs vastly more productive: a plumber no longer has to return to his shop to pick up messages from clients, for example.
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Mobile phones have proven dynamite in other developing countries in providing banking services where no banks exist ( Kenya is a well-documented pioneer).
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Already the No. 1 market in a host of industries, including automobiles, home appliances and mobile phones, China is a leading profitable growth engine for multinational companies (MNCs).
Boost Mobile, one of Sprint's prepaid brands, offers wireless phones and services with no long-term contracts.
No other app offers this game-changing combination of simplicity, versatility and totally free service between mobile phones.
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Starting on this date, Windows Mobile 6.x users will no longer be able to browse, buy or download applications directly on their Windows Mobile 6.x phones using the Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace application and service.
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Banks in emerging markets are using mobile phones to extend their services to existing customers and to provide banking connectivity to individuals with no previous banking relationship.
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The Rise Of Artificial Intelligence: As I pointed out in an earlier post on Forbes, although Apple was the company that first got everyone excited about artificial intelligence (AI) on mobile phones when they launched Siri, they have fallen way behind in this area and show no signs of progress.
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