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• Forget the laptop, the new education tool is a phone call away.

  - 2005-08-14

  Byline: Shane Green Aug 14, 2005 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Mobile telephones may have a place in the classroom after all. Many Australian schools have...

  Tags: MARKETING, mobile, phone, University of Melbourne

• Mobile Phone Interference With Medical Equipment and Its Clinical Relevance: A Systematic Review

  BNET - 2004-08-02

  The objective of the study was to conduct a systematic review of studies on clinically relevant digital mobile phone electromagnetic interference with medical equipment. As there was considerable heterogeneity in medical equipment studied and the conduct of testing, results were summarized rather than subjected to meta-analysis. Although testing was not...

  Tags: Phone, Mobile, University Of Melbourne, Cell Phone, Medical Equipment, Healthcare

• Caravan parks selling out to the big fish.

  - 2003-07-10

  Jul 10, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) New research suggests the caravan and mobile home resort business is being absorbed by big developers. A joint study by the University of Melbourne and the Queensland University of Technology has found that one...

  Tags: MARKETING, mobile, Queensland, University of Melbourne

• On The Phenomenology Of Technology: The "Janus-Faces" Of Mobile Phones

  BNET - 2003-06-20

  This paper argues that technologies perform in Janus faced ways; that is, in ways that are ironic, perverse and paradoxical, and it is argued that these qualities are important to apprehend if we are to more fully understand the role of technology in organizations and in our daily lives. The...

  Tags: Phone, Mobile, University Of Melbourne, Paradox, Cell Phone, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

• Research to end guesswork in ICT technology.

  - 2003-02-28

  Feb 27, 2003 (Marketing - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Research Council has awarded the University of Melbourne and Novell a grant for research into mobile technology. According to a vice president at Novell, Greg Trainor, the research into methods for the design of...

  Tags: MARKETING, mobile, Novell Inc., R&D, University of Melbourne

• Mobile phone techno leap fails to excite young users.

  - 2001-11-14

  Nov 15, 2001 (The Courier-Mail ABIX via COMTEX) -- New research suggest that new cutting-edge, Internet-capable mobile telephones will fail to impress young consumers. Technologies such as WAP, or Wireless Application Protocol, enable users to send electronic mail messages and surf the Internet. However,...

  Tags: E-mail, INTERNET, mobile, Novell Inc., phone, University of Melbourne, WAP, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• Mobiles part of youths' lives: study.

  - 2001-08-09

  Aug 10, 2001 The West Australian ABIX via COMTEX -- Australian youths will spend pocket money on mobile telephones to ensure they do not miss out on social engagements. University of Melbourne lecturer and researcher, Jennie Carroll, says many teenagers regard mobile handsets part...

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