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The United States Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has recently released its report regarding electronic device searches at the border for the entire year of 2017, and the numbers are particularly telling -- the agency has conducted border searches on a total of 30,200 phones and laptop devices in the last twelve months.
Results of a study recently conducted by Accenture appears to suggest so. What Accenture did was ask 21,000 mobile users from 19 countries across the globe about their smartphone and smart speaker usage. And the company found that two thirds (66 percent) of the 2,271 who answered a question about smart speakers are saying that they are using their smartphone less since acquiring a smart speaker.
During the weekend, a couple of Apple shareholders -- namely, Jana Partners LLC and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System -- had written an open letter urging the second biggest vendor of smartphone devices in the world to make a more pronounced effort to combat mobile addiction, especially among kids.
Big congratulations are in order for Spotify recently as they have reached an important milestone in their company. The music streaming company took to Twitter to announce that they have already reached 70 million paying subscribers. The company also announced that they had a net of 10 million members in a span of five months.
Stanford University recently conducted a study in which they divided a total of 125 students and put them into three groups -- one wherein they were allowed to use their mobile device as they like, another wherein they were instructed to put their handset on the table within their line of sight but not touch the handset, and the last group wherein no phones were used at all. Each group was placed inside an unadorned room and left there for a period of six minutes.
Canada has recently acquired the services of Advanced Symbolics, a firm that specializes in developing artificial intelligence (AI) systems, in order to help the government monitor social media platforms for signs of suicide related behavior. Specifically, Advanced Symbolics will be tasked with tracking posts from an estimated 160,000 social media accounts and pick out those with possible suicide risk.
Florida is one of the last states in all of America that have not yet enforced a full ban on texting while driving. But that soon could change, as the state’s lawmakers prepare to review a bill that proposes such a ban.
As recently reported by Sensor Tower, mobile users have spent a staggering $196 million on apps (counting also the money paid for in-app purchases and subscriptions) across Google Play and Apple’s App Store during this year’s Christmas Day alone. It should be noted though that the latest holiday figures from Sensor Tower does not bring into account earnings generated from Android powered mobile apps in China.
Want to enjoy unlimited minutes of voice calls, text messages, and data, and pay only $15 every month? You can do exactly that if you sign up for any one of Teltik’s voice call plans right now. And for good measure, the mobile service provider is also promising to give $50 port-in credit on selected plans, but one will need to hurry though -- the port-in credit deal is only good until January 5th.
Deep into the frantic holiday shopping season, Comcast is busying itself pushing its Xfinity Internet service via the stores of Boost Mobile (Sprint’s prepaid subsidiary). The cable giant is targeting to reach all 4,400 Boost Mobile outlets before the year is over.
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