T-Mobile Sidekick Returns as 4G Android Smartphone

T-Mobile March 15 unveiled its T-Mobile Sidekick 4G, an Android 2.2 smartphone sporting a 3.5-inch display and a QWERTY keyboard. Availability is this spring.
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Smartphone Users Clueless of Malware Risks

Smartphone owners are only dimly aware that their expensive devices could be targeted by emerging types of mobile malware, a European survey finds.
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Google's Instant On Mobile Devices - Engadget

We've never had a use for Google Instant Search on mobile, so we didn't expect much when Google's Instant Previews invaded the smartphone realm as well. You know what? They're actually surprisingly useful. Instead of trying to cram additional information into Google's already-crowded mobile website, Instant Previews adds a little magnifying glass next to most every result instead, and clicking on the magnifier brings up a series of cached thumbnails of each page that you can scroll through in portrait or landscape modes. It's a very visual way of finding what you're looking for, and more importantly, it's quick even over 3G, saving time and mobile bandwidth that would otherwise be spent clicking through links one by one. Rather than decipher that long-winded explanation, though, why don't you try it out for yourself or watch our video demonstration after the break?

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Smartphone app revives flagging S. Korean custom

South Korea's biggest mobile phone carrier has devised a smartphone application to revive a flagging custom -- raising the national standard over homes on important holidays.
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Mom-O-Meter Android Application Video Demonstration

Mom-O-Meter Android Application Video Demonstration for WPI Major Qualifying Project. The goal of this Major Qualifying Project (MQP) was to develop a self-help Android application to aid pregnant women in achieving healthy weight gain during pregnancy. Using a Scrum agile software development approach, the team gathered requirements, designed, and implemented a smartphone application utilizing the Android and Google Health platforms. This application empowers women to take their health into their own hands, reducing short-term and long-term health risks associated with gestational weight gain for both mother and child. This application is an example of continued advancement of mobile technologies in healthcare, which drives the shift from a reactionary to preventative treatment paradigm. Music: Cafe 2 by Gregory Jenkins

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