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15 unusual facts about mobile phone


Blast Theory

Over its history, Blast Theory’s work has explored interactivity and the social and political aspects of technology through a multitude of forms – using performance, installation, video, mobile and online technologies.

Bonez Tour 2005: Live at Budokan

Even with an accessory for mobile (A small cord writing Avril Lavigne, in high relief, with the sources of the album Under My Skin).

British Bangladeshi

Bangladeshi teenagers involved with gangs show their allegiance to this kind of lifestyle in various ways: heavily styled hair, expensive mobile phones and fashionable labels and brands.

Buena Fortuna

Viewers could also participate from home, by using a cellular telephone.

Gilmore College

Mobile phones and iPods were banned from the school and facebook was banned from school computers in 2013 to combat bullying at the school.

Gompertz function

Mobile phone uptake, where costs were initially high (so uptake was slow), followed by a period of rapid growth, followed by a slowing of uptake as saturation was reached.

Guide to: Asking Someone Out and Recycling

He gets Cookie to be an ambassador, but he falls in love with Suzie's cell phone and fails.

Iome

Via internet and mobile services, iome’s technology links activities, interests, locations, routes and places so people can plan ahead and make bookings, based on personal preferences and their location.

Joe Horn

After scoring his second touchdown in a game in which he would score four, he pulled a cell phone out from underneath the goalpost padding with the help of teammate Michael Lewis and pretended to make a call.

Lakelands Park Middle School

Following the decision of the Montgomery County school board to allow cell phones in schools other than high schools, in August 2007 Lakelands was one of four selected to trial this arrangement.

Page zooming

It is usually found in applications related to document layout and publishing, e.g. word processing and spreadsheet programs, but it can also be found in web browsers as it improves accessibility for people with visual impairment and people using mobile devices, such as PDAs and mobiles which have a relatively small screen.

Pankanergaon

New technologies have arrived including the cell phone and this has increased possible sources of employment and revenue.

Tess Tyler

While on stage, Tess sees her mother in the crowd, but her joy is quickly ruined when T.J. is distracted by a cell phone call.

The Tuxedo Begins

While she is complaining to Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) about this in a call, his cell phone is stolen at knifepoint in a construction tunnel.

TV phone

a contemporary UMTS-type Mobile phone, a form of videotelephony that can convey simultaneous audio and video, or


Agreeya Mobility

AgreeYa Mobility is a global enterprise mobility and mobile System Integration (SI) company based in Mountain View, California.

AMP v Persons Unknown

The decision in the case was published on 10 January 2012, and involved a woman who had experienced blackmail and harassment after sexually explicit pictures of her taken on a mobile phone camera were uploaded to BitTorrent file-sharing websites.

Area code 600

Area code 600 is a rarely-used non-geographic Canadian area code, reserved for specialized telecommunications uses such as Teletype, caller-pays cellular, ISDN and mobile satellite communication services.

Avenir Telecom

They consist in the distribution and sale of a wide variety of communication products, especially mobile phones, activation of service, accessories, answering and fax machines, phone cases, phone chargers, phone soxs, plastic shelves, 3D phone stickers for mobiles and laptops, earkits, hands-free kits, portable headsets, and USB Bluetooth dongles under the OXO name.

Bigfoot Bonkers

This type of game appeared in many variants on many computers and consoles over the years, and was popular on mobile phones like Nokia many years later as one of the default games called "Snake".

BTRON

BTRON was unable to gain a position in the desktop OS market, however other TRON operating systems continue to be extensively used in small devices such as mobile phones, digital cameras, and CD players.

Claims adjuster

Laptop computers, pad, and other technologies make claims adjusting easier and consume less time.

Closed session of the United States Congress

All sitting Senators present are called to the floor, and they must surrender any electronic communications equipment including mobile phones and other electronic devices.

Content adaptation

Advances in the capabilities of small, mobile devices such as mobile phones (cell phones) and Personal Digital Assistants has led to an explosion in the number of types of device that can now access the Web.

DoJa

DoJa profile is a Java application environment specification for DoCoMo's i-mode mobile phone.

General Council of the Pyrénées-Orientales

The GSE of defibrillators by GPS on Internet and car navigation systems, the mobile phones and the PDA also improves on Référencement and Digital coverage department.

Høstutstillingen

Video and mobile phone photos are among the newer forms of expression in the exhibition.

Hugo: The Evil Mirror

Hugo: The Evil Mirror (Danish: Hugo: Det Afskyelige Spejl) is a video game in the Hugo franchise developed by ITE Media for the PC, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color and mobile phones.

Location-based routing

The location of call origin is normally determined by the outgoing caller ID of the caller but can also be determined by GPS position or signal triangulation, the latter being particularly useful for calls coming from mobile phones.

Lock screen

Mobile phones manufactured by Neonode were unlocked by swiping to the right on its touchscreen.

Microbridge

Microbridge is a software stack that allows for communication between an Android mobile phone and an Arduino micro controller using the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) interface.

Mobile device management

MDM functionality typically includes over-the-air distribution of applications, data and configuration settings for all types of mobile devices, including mobile phones, smartphones, tablet computers, ruggedized mobile computers, mobile printers, mobile POS devices, etc.

Morrisville State College

Considered one of the most technologically advanced colleges in the nation (in the year 2001) for its ThinkPad program and wireless technology initiative, the college recently became the first in the nation to comprehensively replace all phones in residence halls with individual cellular phones for students.

Mount Arapiles-Tooan State Park

A Telstra repeater tower provides mobile phone coverage, although it may be necessary to walk a few hundred metres down from the campground towards the road for adequate reception.

Naomi Baron

She is also interested in language use in the computer age, instant messaging, text messaging, mobile phone practices, cross-cultural research on mobile phones, Human multitasking behavior, and Facebook online social interaction usage by American college students.

News

Events that used to take hours or days to become common knowledge in towns or in nations are fed instantaneously to consumers via radio, television, mobile phone, and the Internet.

PhpChess

phpChess brings the following capabilities to its customers: Realtime chess gameplay, correspondence chess games, Game chat, Life chatroom, messaging framework, move validation (professional version only), Gadget support for Microsoft Vista, Yahoo Widget support, Java mobile phone client support, PC Software support, web messaging (XML based), Tournament management and others.

Rayleigh fading

These Doppler shifts correspond to velocities of about 6 km/h (4 mph) and 60 km/h (40 mph) respectively at 1800 MHz, one of the operating frequencies for GSM mobile phones.

Shortcode activation protocol

Shortcode activation protocol is a programming device that allows mobile phone users to send a short activation word to a premium rate phone line operated via SMS.

Symbian Foundation

The Symbian Foundation was a non-profit organisation that stewarded the Symbian platform; an operating system for mobile phones, based on Symbian OS, which previously had been owned and licensed by Symbian Ltd..

TATP Benchmark

The HLR is an application mobile network operators use to store all relevant information about valid subscribers, including the mobile phone number, the services to which they have subscribed, access privileges, and the current location of the subscriber's handset.

Telecom dispute between Gibraltar and Spain

These included a refusal to recognise Gibraltar's International Direct Dialling (IDD) code (+350) which restricted the expansion of the Gibraltar telephone numbering plan, and the prevention of roaming arrangements for Gibraltar GSM mobile phones in Spain and vice versa.

Telephone company

In the satirical 1967 film The President's Analyst, "TPC, The Phone Company," is depicted as plotting to enslave humanity by replacing landlines with implanted mobile phones.

Usage-based insurance

# Coverage is based on mileage aggregated from GPS data, or the number of minutes the vehicle is being used as recorded by a vehicle-independent module transmitting data via cellphone or RF technology.

Virgin Produced

Virgin also launched the Virgin Produced Channel in 2012 which serves as a short form captive content channel onboard Virgin's fleet of domestic and international airlines with planned expansion to Virgin Hotels, Gyms and Mobile phone products.

Web interoperability

Web interoperability means producing web pages viewable in standard compatible web browsers, various operating systems such as Windows, Macintosh and Linux and devices such as PC, PDA and mobile phone based on the latest web standards.

West Central Wireless

West Central Wireless is a local mobile phone provider serving Central and West Texas based in San Angelo, Texas, with satellite offices in Brady, Texas.

Zain Iraq

Iraqna launched operations in Iraq in December 2003, after the fall of Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, then with an exclusive license to provide mobile telephony services in Iraq’s central region.