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The article discusses the issue of phone hacking scandals that engulf several newspapers in Great Britain. It mentions the legal fights of Taylor Hampton consultant Mark Lewis and JMW Solicitors lawyer Charlotte Harris against the tabloid for the perceive phone hacking. Also investigated are the settlement claims of Collyer Bristow partner Dominic Crossley payout for 60,000 pounds and 700,000 pound settlement for Taylor.

The article offers information on a paper presented at Special Libraries Association (SLA) 2016 revealed that libraries can do much more to address the ‘gap' in providing information to mobile device users. Topics discussed include issues libraries face in staying relevant in a world; how people now access information; and how sophisticated mobile consumers expect when they begin to use library services.

The article reports on the use of thin-film polymers and other flexible substrates, which could revolutionize displays. Electronic papers using flexible polymer displays may soon be introduced. A portable data assistant or cellular phone may eventually incorporate a roll-up display that extends to allow viewing of maps or web sites on a larger screen. Jim Brug, imaging materials department manager at HP Laboratories, expects such technologies to become reality within the next five years. There are several challenges in making traditional displays flexible particularly with liquid crystal displays, which is unlikely to be bent. Companies have developed alternatives including reflective electronic paper and emissive organic light-emitting diode technologies INSETS: From Flexible DispIays to Bendable PCs;The Economies Printed Electronics.

The article informs about the use of Loudoun County's Laserfiche enterprise content management system for creating an online form that residents could submit from home or through mobile device. Topics include views of Loudoun County database administration team manager Jakub Jedrzejczak, on same; retrieving documents from computer or mobile device; and eliminating the need for paper copies and physical file cabinets.

The article discusses the white paper, "RF Architecture Choices for Next-Generation Handset Designs," from Qorvo Inc. It is noted that the white paper discusses the differing Radio Frequency front-end (RFFE) integration requirements of two major smartphone categories including flagship and mid-tier phones. It is noted that flagship phones demand a very high level of RFFE integration.

The article offers tips on dealing with a downturn. Instead of mailing contracts, literature or order forms, create Portable Document Format (PDF) documents and send them to clients through electronic mail (email). If one has a PayPal account, get a PayPal debit card, which can be used for all purchases. Reuse and do not just recycle printer/facsimile (fax) paper. Another avenue that many have gone to is to eliminate the land line and operate one's business strictly using a cellular telephone.

Deals with the paper "Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) Limitations for GPRS and EDGE Handsets" from Tropian. Tests done to show the initial results of SAR measurements for tri-band EGPRS handsets; Focus of the paper; Conclusion.

The article reports on the key trends for 2008 in Mobile Industry in Europe. It is said that imaging has become a much more significant part of the design of handsets, both from the image-sensor and the capture and processing standpoint. There is also a strong push to integrate global positioning system (GPS) satellite navigation into mobile devices. Moreover, several imaging and GPS products from different companies are also being discussed on the paper.

This paper looks at the acquisition deal between BenQ and the cellular handset business of Siemens. Under the agreement, Siemens will hand over its money-losing global handset operation to Taiwan-based consumer electronics supplier BenQ, pay 250 million € to BenQ, and buy two percent of BenQ stock worth 50 million €. BenQ will also get exclusive rights to Siemens name on handsets for 18 months and five-year exclusive rights to the joint BenQ-Siemens brand after the deal's closing, expected in September 2005. For now, however, BenQ has no plans to renew this brand-licensing agreement or prolong this licensing period in the future, according to a BenQ spokeswoman. BenQ also gets Siemens' handset factories, sales and marketing operations, research and development operations, employees, key executives and no-time-limit free access to Siemens' handset Internet Protocol. The combined cellphone entity will be headed by Siemens' handset CEO Clemens Joos and be headquartered in Munich, Germany. Strategy Analytics Vice President David Kerr called the deal a desperation move by Siemens and a positive opportunity for BenQ. Although BenQ is one of the world's largest makers of handsets when its contract manufacturing volume is included, the company entered the U.S. market only in late 2004.

The article presents news briefs in the U.S. Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd. introduced a mobile phone called Blue Earth with a built in pedometer which the company refers as the "eco-walk" function. Applied DNA Sciences, a Stony Brook, New York security firm developed a patent-pending method to detect the unique genetic fingerprint of U.S. paper currency.

The article offers information on Smartpox, a service that allows the creation of barcodes which can represent a website link, email address or contact detail. The technology functions by allowing users to encode a 2D barcode with their e-mail address. When the access is generated it can then be printed on paper. On the other hand, the image can be captured by using the supplied java phone software, which utilizes the user's camera phone. When the image is recognized and verified it can then be decoded on the phone by contacting the smartpox website. Meanwhile, decoding the smartpox image requires the installation of smartpox reader software on the mobile phone.

This paper features FutureDial Suite™, a software from FutureDial Incorporated that allows hundreds of popular phone models to interact with the personal computer (PC). The benefits are as follows: synchronize phonebooks, calendars and to-do lists between the PC and cellphones, unload photos from camera cellphones directly to the PC for storage and sharing, add personal pictures and favorite ringtones from the PC to cellphones, enable wireless Internet access for laptop computers using the cellphone as a wireless modem for the PC, exchange and manage Short Messaging Service text messages with other cellphones directly from the PC. Purchase of FutureDial Suite™ also entitles owners to download FutureDial's new Vortext™ software for free for a limited time. FutureDial Suite™ works with over 120 popular cellphone models of Sprint PCS, Verizon Wireless, AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless and T-Mobile. With the software, people are putting their cellphones on speaking terms with their computers, noted George Huang, president and CEO at FutureDial.

The article focuses on the current technology for instant filming. Instant film has never been reportedly cheap and that few people do process film at most in everyday through cellular phones. Nevertheless, the author emphasizes that instant film has those same three light-sensitized layers and that image is formed by a complex, inverse filtering process.

Stresses the need for corporations to give cellular phones to secretaries for office use. Benefits to customers; Case of Ericsson Mobile Communications AB of Shista, Sweden; Potential for abuse of cellular phones; Importance of finding the right combination of phones and modems.