These are a makeshift wardrobe, a mobile phone safe-box and a bottle of water.
But now a group of Canadian and Tanzanian health innovators have joined forces to apply simple and safe mobile technologies to improve cervical cancer screening and thus potentially reduce mortality rates in the East African country.
The adoption of mobile phones as a safe and secure means to transfer data will depend on the confidence that the interactions between vendors and users are safe and secure.
After all, what's the point of a mobile device if people don't feel safe using it while they're mobile?
Tug boats pulled the disabled ship to safe harbor in Mobile, Alabama, late on February 14.
Channel Island residents have been reassured by the head of environmental health that mobile phone mast emissions are within safe limits.
Combining the highly robust solid-state flash technology, with sturdy aluminum casing, the FastKey ensures your data is as safe as it is mobile.
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With Adyen, merchants can focus on expanding their global reach by giving customers more options for online and mobile payments and keeping their credit card data safe.
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To allay these security fears the mobile banking providers need to create an environment for safe transactions by addressing concerns around authentication, theft, fraud, hacking, malware, and so on.
To date, mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have been pretty safe from malware.
No word on whether the company will eventually introduce mobile apps, but we'd say it's a pretty safe bet.
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The parental controls and safe web browsing is powered by Editions Profil, whose "Mobile Parental Filter" is ranked as the most efficient parental control software in worldwide benchmarks.
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The case is equipped with a payment technology called Near Field Communication (NFC), which allows customers to make safe and secure purchases with U.S. Bank Go Mobile at thousands of participating retailers that accept Visa payWave.
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It's a safe bet that, with both Microsoft and Google turning their attention to offering mobile-phone-based applications, the two companies will be stalking the same set of companies.
LoJack for Android smartphones, launching exclusively on the Galaxy S4, joins SAFE for Knox in Samsung's quest to develop "the most comprehensive mobile security solution" on the market.
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Essentially a Mobile Device Management (MDM) app for parents, this would also let me create a whitelist of kid-safe apps, prevent or control any downloads and generally track their usage.
If they are to grow significantly, mobile social networks will have to work overtime to convince potential users that sensitive information about their movements is being kept safe from, say, burglars.
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