When farmers buy their inputs, the store worker uses a mobile phone camera to scan barcode symbols that match the product.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

"For example in Rwanda, where cell phone-based technologies are being used to keep track of dispensation of drugs to patients with H.I.V.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

Reaching for a cell phone when it's going off, you're nine times more likely to get into an accident than normally driving."

VOA: special.2010.07.01

An app can be as simple as a program that turns a mobile phone into a flashlight to light your way at night.

VOA: special.2011.03.22

She developed a mobile phone-based system that permits people to share important information throughout the Habla network.

VOA: special.2011.03.02

People can also transfer money to other mobile phone users, even those without an M-Pesa account.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

And it is launching a mobile phone program to gather records on condom sales around Tanzania.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

People could use it to quickly remove a list of contacts from a phone or computer.

VOA: special.2011.06.27

But if any schools do have to close, then the hope is to keep children learning for example, through phone calls or over the Internet.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

"The hotline has given us an opportunity to take advantage of cell phone technology, to reach people outside of our intervention zone with family planning messaging.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

Why did he put the phone down?" MOTHER: "I'll talk to your father."

VOA: special.2009.05.04

Just sixteen percent thought it was OK to take that phone call.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

He spoke to President Barack Obama by phone.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

"We have one project called bee-spotters, which is now restricted to Illinois, where we ask people to go out with a digital camera,even a cell phone, and photograph either bumblebees or honeybees."

VOA: special.2011.05.24