Founded in 2009, the service aggregates anonymized data, such as mobile phone usage and other data.
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One possibility is that years of cell phone usage has conditioned us to anticipate the arrival of new messages.
Cell-phone usage and Internet access has also taken off in South Korea over the last five years.
To date, there have been no long-term studies on the effects of cell phone usage among children.
Or when phone usage begins to spike in some areas and drops in other areas, that can indicate migration.
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Battery performance may vary depending on network conditions and configurations, and phone usage.
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Phone usage was so high for T that it crashed its network even as it garnered increased market share.
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Dr Hondou examined mobile-phone usage in enclosed spaces such as railway carriages, buses and lifts, all of which are, in essence, metal boxes.
"Even my teenage kids can't generate that much phone usage, " IRS Commissioner Mark Everson cracked at an appearance at the National Press Club Tuesday.
Mobile phone usage for shopping provides another advantage to the consumer.
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The software only works with Microsoft email software and supports up to 2, 000 users with a separate computer server and limited ability to monitor and control phone usage.
Did the fact that we spend more than three hundred dollars a month in cell phone usage play any part in the decision of our wireless provider when we begged for a replacement?
As a result, for years the U.S. lagged behind Europe in mobile phone usage, and even today our poor call quality and frequently dropped calls can be blamed in part on this regulatory hodge-podge.
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Sometimes described as a 2.5G technology because it acts as a bridge between mobile telephony and the full-fledged mobile Internet, the service has spawned a whole new style of phone usage, particularly among Japan's youth (see accompanying story).
That helps explain why Motorola's venerable RAZR series remains staggeringly high on Nielsen's latest US phone usage report -- third place, to be exact, at 2.3 percent of all subscribers behind the iPhone 3G at 4 percent and RIM's BlackBerry Curve line at 3.7 percent.
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The Danish study is prospective in nature, which distinguishes it from most other studies on the health effects of cell phone use, which were case-control studies and enrolled subjects diagnosed with brain tumors and a comparison group of subjects who were free of brain tumors in order to compare reported cell phone usage in the two groups.
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The magnitude of the spread of smart phone and tablet usage will dictate the trend in telecom spending.
But the Council has influence and it is recommending that European governments take precautionary steps to restrict mobile phone and WiFi usage, particularly among young people, and, in the case of WiFi, in the home.
Called The Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs, its report calling for restrictions on mobile phone and WiFi usage was finalised over a week ago but is only just finding its way into the news media.
The prime minister's adviser on preventing the sexualisation and commercialisation of childhood, Conservative MP for Devizes Claire Perry, has reportedly urged parents to challenge their children about their mobile phone and social media usage to ensure they are not sending inappropriate messages.
The always-on, low energy wireless connection minimizes usage of the phone battery and lets people track their activity even when their iPhone isn't nearby.
Microsoft says their tests showed Data Sense allowed users to get an average of 45 percent more usage from the phone, compared to if the feature was disabled.
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While the BlackBerry's plastic keyboard and tight integration with corporate e-mail systems makes it an unbeatable e-mail machine, Nielsen Mobile's first-quarter data show that the iPhone is all about multimedia, playing music, video and online games far above the average usage of those services for other mobile phone users.
Then, twice daily, the usage record is sent to the designated mobile phone or e-mail address of family or friend.
In fact, the HTC Droid DNA I was using gave me two warnings that my energy usage was outpacing the power going into my phone.
One smartphone equals 24 regular phones in data usage per month, but an Android or iOS phone uses 4 times what a regular smartphone uses.
But the industry has also done a good job improving gift card value for customers - from offering mutliple store usage to the ability to store them on a phone.
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