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During the final three months of last year, Google Play managed to achieve its best ever quarter, in terms of the volume of mobile app downloads. As indicated in App Annie’s recently released report, Google’s online store for apps registered downloads of more than 19 billion in Q4 2017.
This week, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of the state of New York, signed an executive order (read the full contents here) that mandates every state agency in the Empire State from now on to only do business with web service providers that abide by net neutrality regulations.
AT&T is unveiling a new offering that subscribers might want to get if they want to improve their overall Wi-Fi experience at home. Meet the AT&T Smart Wi-Fi Extender, which can make Wi-Fi signals more reliable and more steady through the use of mesh technology. The product is made available only online, and is priced at $35.
More than a month ago, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had voted 3-2 in order to repeal the net neutrality rules the agency had established around a couple of years ago.
According to the results of a recent survey conducted by Cowen and Company, the amount of postpaid mobile customers who have availed of an unlimited data plan has increased to 53.4 percent. This growth is truly remarkable considering that three years ago, this category of users was only at 22.7 percent. The latest percentage also represents a steady improvement over the 51.6 percent recorded in the previous quarter.
The launch of last year’s iPhone X was not only supposed to be a celebration of the ten year popularity of the iPhone, but also as a sort of ushering of a new era of ultra advanced smartphone capabilities. But according to the results of a survey recently conducted by Wall Street research firm Cowen, it appears that the number of mobile users who currently own iPhones and are planning to purchase a new iPhone model are nearing historically low levels.
According to the latest report recently released by App Annie just this week, the number of mobile app downloads across the globe has reached 175 billion in 2017. Also last year, the amount of money spent by mobile users on apps breached the $86 billion mark, driven mainly by growth in emerging mobile markets such as China, India, Brazil, and Russia.
Google has formally revealed through its official blog that starting in July of this year, it will be looking to start taking page loading speeds into account when ranking websites for its mobile search results. According to the search giant, when its Speed Update will go live in half a year’s time, websites with very slow loading speeds will likely be down-ranked.
A little more than a month ago, App Annie had projected that mobile users across the globe will be spending about $110 billion making purchases from app stores this year. This suggested that the next few months will pretty much see a significant growth in the volume of mobile apps bought.
In the last few years, phone makers may have grown to prefer the Mobile World Congress (which happens annually every February) as the venue for unveiling their best and shiniest new mobile devices, but that is not to say the yearly Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been forgotten. While it is true that CES has evolved to include all sorts of cool (and weird) new gadgets, a lot of mobile devices still make their debut in this event.
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