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Wash That Phone Before Dialing
Wash That Phone Before Dialing
Cellphones carry 10 times more bacteria than most toilet seats, so it shouldn’t be surprising that a man in Uganda reportedly contracted Ebola after stealing one.
A Roaming-Free Zone
A Roaming-Free Zone
Indonesia wants to bring comprehensive and integrated mobile phone service to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region by making the area roaming free by 2014, the Antara news agency reported in August 2012.
A Driving Force in Cyber Security
A Driving Force in Cyber Security
A team of top hackers working for Intel Corp.’s security division toil away in a garage searching for electronic bugs that could make automobiles vulnerable to lethal computer viruses.