Slashdot: Huawei Shocks With Advanced New Smartphone Built With South Korean Memory Chips https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/23/09/09/1849221/huawei-shocks-with-advanced-new-smartphone-built-with-south-korean-memory-chips?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #Tech #slashdot #Technology #cellphones

Huawei Shocks With Advanced New Smartphone Built With South Korean Memory Chips - Huawei's launch last week of the Mate 60 Pro smartphone "shocked industry experts,... - https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/23/09/09/1849221/huawei-shocks-with-advanced-new-smartphone-built-with-south-korean-memory-chips?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #cellphones

Global News BC: B.C. school bans cellphones during instructional time https://globalnews.ca/news/9940688/bc-school-ban-cellphones/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BelmontSecondarySchoolphoneban #BelmontSecondarySchool #Cellphonebanschool #CellphonesInSchool #schoolcellphoneban #Phonesinschools #phonebanschool #CellphoneBan #cellphones #Education #PhoneBan

The more we look down, the less we look up.

#CellPhones #SmartPhones

#Cellphones #Mobile #Ads #Advertising #AdTech #TargetedAds: "The gradual infiltration of advertising into any and all spaces that also contain human eyes and/or ears is neither new nor unique to the tech industry — “ad creep” was coined in the ’90s — but among companies with successful platforms and popular apps, it is particularly acute. Some of the largest modern tech companies are, if not explicitly advertising firms, built on advertising assumptions. Google is a search engine and Instagram is a social network, but for most users, both of them are free, and advertising is implied.

This isn’t ideal — advertising is arguably never ideal — but it’s a deal, and implies certain norms: Google is a thing you can expect to use in exchange for being sold to advertisers, whose ads you will see. The broad tendency among internet companies making explicit bids for attention has long been that if the product is free, you see ads. If you pay, the ads go away. You pay to eliminate ads in Spotify, Candy Crush, or YouTube. If you don’t, you sit through them. There are plenty of reasons to worry about such a framework — targeted advertising is a form of surveillance, and it certainly doesn’t feel great to effectively buy back your own attention with a subscription alternative — but it made sense on its own terms.

It was also, in comparison to older media providers, who had over the years settled on more of an all-of-the-above financial arrangement, sort of refreshing. Paying TV customers still saw ads despite growing bills. Newspaper subscribers still got pitched by businesses trying to steer opinion and sell products between news stories. Here was a new world in which the boundary between paying for a product and being the product was restored, briefly."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/08/why-every-tech-company-turns-into-an-ad-company.html

EU roaming is pretty awesome! But the thing is hardly anybody wants to receive SMS messages with emergency services and other roaming info bullshit when crossing to neighboring country over and over.
Last time I crossed a nearby border I received 3 (!) useless messages on:
1) Emergency services
2) Embassy info
3) Roaming charges
#mobilephones #mobile #cellphones #roaming #eu #europe #europeanunion #sms #messaging

Probably more people own portable radios than realize it., because their #cellphones have hidden FM tuners. Phone manufacturers should stop hiding that, so that people can use those radios in #disasters and emergencies. https://www.slashgear.com/792051/which-phones-can-play-fm-radio/

Slashdot: Do US Teens Hate Android Phones? https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/23/08/19/0526251/do-us-teens-hate-android-phones?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #Tech #slashdot #Technology #cellphones

Do US Teens Hate Android Phones? - America's teens hate Android phones, according to a new article from the Wall Stre... - https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/23/08/19/0526251/do-us-teens-hate-android-phones?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #cellphones

Writer Fuel: Advanced alien civilizations could probably already tell that there's intelligent life on Earth, thanks to our cell phone towers. Will they lead aliens to Earth?

https://www.limfic.com/2023/08/12/writer-fuel-will-cell-phone-towers-lead-aliens-to-us/

#WriterFuel #Earth #CellPhones #CellPhoneTowers #Aliens

Wife shoots herself in the foot, could have kept quiet, but makes false claims about the paper at a city council meeting. Paper's forced to print the truth, police take the wife's side & raid the paper, breaking federal law (no subpoena). Publisher: this happens in Egypt, not in the U.S. They cannot release their next issue on Tuesday...
#fascist #conservatives #break #federal #law #no #subpoena #steal #computers #cellphones #hard #drives #journalism #press #reporter https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/

Nokia Keeps the Dream of the '90s Alive With an Update to Its Dumb Phones - The Nokia 130 and 150 are two new updated feature phones from Nokia that ship "wit... - https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/23/08/03/2044230/nokia-keeps-the-dream-of-the-90s-alive-with-an-update-to-its-dumb-phones?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #cellphones

Tech (Global News): Freedom Mobile to offer 5G service through 2 new plans https://globalnews.ca/news/9861546/freedom-mobile-5g-plans/ #globalnews #TechNews #Technology #FreedomMobile #Cellphones #PhonePlans #CellPhone #dataplans #Quebecor #Canada #Tech #Data

> In some parts of the world, particularly in Southeast Asian countries, but also increasingly in India, gadgets have fully overwhelmed society.
> They have become the purpose of life, replacing culture and local art, deeply influencing and trivializing language, and the way that people communicate.
> Creativity has fully collapsed...

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gadgets-turning-me-into-an-idiot/
#AndreVitchek saying #YouAreNotAGadget about #CellPhones and #SouthEastAsia

Schneier on Security: Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/07/tracking-down-a-suspect-through-cell-phone-records.html #Uncategorized #cellphones #forensics #crime

OUR #CELLPHONES ARE #SPYING ON US https://persecution-live.org/2023/06/28/our-cellphones-are-spying-on-us/

Schneier on Security: Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/07/tracking-down-a-suspect-through-cell-phone-records.html #Uncategorized #cellphones #forensics #crime

Schneier on Security: Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/07/tracking-down-a-suspect-through-cell-phone-records.html #Uncategorized #cellphones #forensics #crime

Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/07/tracking-down-a-suspect-through-cell-phone-records.html #Uncategorized #cellphones #forensics #crime

Schneier on Security: Tracking Down a Suspect through Cell Phone Records https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/07/tracking-down-a-suspect-through-cell-phone-records.html #Uncategorized #cellphones #forensics #crime