Anjana Pasricha from voanews.com writes:
India’s millions of mobile phone subscribers have won relief from a growing nuisance on the subcontinent - unsolicited text messages. The crackdown by regulators targets the world’s fastest-growing mobile phone market.
From remote villages to crowded metros, the number of mobile phones in India has grown exponentially to more than 850 million in just over a decade.
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The GSMA has announced the results of a study about privacy issues on mobile devices.
It contacted more than 4,000 mobile phone users in Singapore, Spain and the UK to find out how concerned they were about privacy and how this influenced their use of mobile internet services and applications.
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The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld complaints about two separate advertisements produced by The Carphone Warehouse in May.
Both ads were headlined ‘Phone 4. UK’s lowest price’, with one also containing small print that said ‘Service Plan in-store £13.99 per month’.
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In today’s edition of The Fonecast we’re talking about innovation from Microsoft and Google.
There’s also an acquisition for Opera and a new CEO for INQ Mobile, along with news from eBay, InMobi and Apple.
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The Google Goggles visual search application is being used for the first time in the UK by French Connection, Garnier, Sony Music and Samsung as part of their poster advertising.
Customers that activate Google Goggles and point their smartphone at the posters will receive additional content via the internet.
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