Apple and Google, the latter riding on a Samsung partnership, continue to play an escalating game of units versus revenues to determine which is the top dog in mobile operating systems.

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"The mobile phone could be removed by dog thieves, but a microchip is a reliable, permanent form of identification linking the animal to you, " Miles said.

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To re-emphasize how forward-looking Ford really was in 2007, a quick search of Google News shows zero stories about BYOD, at least related to mobile devices (there were stories about Bring Your Own Dog and Borrow Your Own Dancer, but I digress).

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Consumer Electronics are experiencing an uncharacteristic moment in the dog house as shoppers eschew hardware and entertainment devices, opting instead for mobile practicality.

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And MediaBrix has a dog in this hunt, since it offers its own kinds of ad formats for social and mobile apps.

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Over the past year or so, mobile food service has gone above and beyond the ice cream truck and the hot dog stand.

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Specialist dog teams were drafted in to help in the search for the office administrator on Thursday after detectives using mobile phone technology pinpointed several areas of interest in the 4, 500-acre forest.

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In order to help dog owners manage the health of their pets using ICT, Fujitsu has leveraged its sensing technologies for humans gained in the development of the company's mobile phones and other technologies, and has adapted them for a device that can monitor a dog's activity levels.

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