Burma's highly mobile migrant population may already be spreading the drug-resistant strain around the world.
What is certain that they outnumber the mobile developer population by a huge factor.
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Canada's mobile-savvy population coupled with Intuit's 18 years experience in Canada made the country a natural choice for Intuit's first international expansion of GoPayment.
In contrast with SNS usage in the U.S., Japanese users are more mobile-centric: in a population of 127 million, more than 100 million mobile phones in Japan belong to the 3G standard, about 30 million more than in the United States (with a population of 300 million).
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Overall more than 116 million Americans (half the U.S. population) use mobile media, up 19% over the last year.
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According to the study, 87 percent of the U.S. population has a mobile phone and 44 percent of mobile phones are smartphones.
The country boasts more than 30 million mobile subscribers out of a population of around 49 million, and more than three quarters of Korean homes enjoy blazingly fast broadband.
With the online population shifting towards mobile devices, Facebook needs to have a strong presence that they can monetize and control, with unfettered access to the user that cannot be taken away or restricted by another company.
As the world's population ages, mobile robotic platforms such as SAMI or Ava have the potential to be applied to the healthcare industry -- from helping the elderly or disabled at home to pushing wheelchairs and bringing residents to the cafeteria or outdoors in eldercare homes.
The proliferation of the middle class has erupted in a spree of banking services offering mobile apps and ATMs to the population.
Currently, only 40% of the Chinese population accesses Internet through mobile phones and only 150 million of around 1.4 billion Chinese citizens have 3G connections.
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Finestrella is striving to change the landscape of telecommunication services in Mexico by providing affordable, high-value postpaid mobile telephone service to the large unbanked population in Mexico.
These increasingly frequent exercises are like faint wake-up calls pushing through the fog of sleep for a large population that registers for desktop and mobile apps.
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Thanks to an aging population that is wealthier, more mobile and more likely to die without a will than ever before, heir hunting is a booming business.
Overall, Grob said, Qualcomm expects that the cellular networks will be able to handle the explosion of mobile data implied by a fast-growing population of users around the world, each downloading more and more data.
"There is an increase in the nomophobic population in India because the number of mobile phone users has increased, " said Dr. Sanjay Dixit, one the researchers and the head of the Indian Journal of Community Medicine.
"It would be most useful for countries where they don't have much rain gauge data or weather radar - in Africa for instance, they do have mobile phones, at least in areas where the population density is high enough, " he told BBC News.
China has the largest Internet population globally and is a significant market for mobile internet devices like iPads and iPhones.
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"Even with the broadening population and wide range of competing activities, mobile owners are drawn to news on their tablet and smartphones, " said PEJ deputy director Amy Mitchell.
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Perhaps a mobile app that accesses the social network's huge population, something Facebook-adjacent that takes what people like about Facebook and turns it into something more nimble and attractive than Facebook itself.
More than half its population is retirees, many of them living in mobile-home parks.
Some 89 percent of the adult population in Pakistan is unbanked and 62 percent use mobile-phone services, notes EasyPaisa spokesman Affan Haider.
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Siano's Ironi predicts the technology will be as popular in China as it is in Japan, where 10% of the population, or 12 million people, regularly watch mobile TV.
Moreover, a big chunk of the population in emerging markets, where most of the mobile growth is likely to be seen in the coming years, relies on 2.5 GHz for wireless services.
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Libya has two state-run mobile phone networks and both have a tendency to bombard the population here with a variety of local information and reminders, including anniversaries of what are deemed to be historic events.
The vast region that makes up East, South, and Southeast Asia is quickly developing into a mobile social powerhouse due to its enormous (and increasingly developed) population.
And competition between Google, Facebook, Yahoo, fixed and mobile operators to seize control of the data opportunities of a global and very large customer base in mobile (at least 4 times the size of the fixed line internet population) is impacting on other sectors.
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Through our nationwide network we provide mobile telecom access to 21.5 million Afghans (71 percent of the population).
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