Where the benefits of a technology are clear, consumers will put risks into perspective: people are so attached to their mobile phones, for example, that few have jettisoned them despite allegations of a link between mobile phone use and cancer.
For example, Africa used mobile phones to create a radically new way of transferring money, thereby restructuring the banking sector.
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For example, unlike socially disruptive mobile phones, watches are far more discreet.
For example, as users have moved to shooting photos on mobile phones, Dropbox previously added camera auto-upload over Wi-Fi so that users do not have to plug their phones into computers to save them.
For example, as customers redeem certain offers or coupons using their mobile phones, the credit may automatically appear in their Serve account.
Screen technology is what allows mobile device makers to increase the size of their phones (the development of phablets, for example) at better resolution with lower battery drain.
Dr. Bollen and his colleagues, for example, found that the millions of Twitter messages sent via mobile phones and computers every day captured swings in national mood that presaged changes in the Dow Jones index up to six days in advance with 87.6% accuracy.
By examining historical data for the price of fish as mobile-phone coverage was extended down the coast of Kerala in southern India between 1997 and 2001, for example, Robert Jensen of Harvard University showed that access to mobile phones made markets much more efficient, eliminating wasted catches and thereby bringing down consumer prices by 4% and increasing fishermen's profits by 8%.
In India, for example, nearly 50% of consumer Internet usage is accessed through mobile phones.
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Motorola says it is uniquely positioned to smooth the transition between home, work, automotive and mobile environments, providing high-speed internet access on trains, for example, e-mail in cars, video on phones, or mobile-phone coverage on planes.
In a much-cited study in 2005, for example, Leonard Waverman of the London Business School found that an extra ten mobile phones per 100 people in a typical developing country added 0.6 percentage points of growth in GDP per person.
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For example, the economist Robert Jensen recently showed what happens when you give impoverished fisherman mobile phones.
Mobile technology, for example, has become a game changer in many parts of the continent, with cell phones being used for everything from transferring money to providing health care information.
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