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Based on developer stats for early June, the newest version of Google’s Android mobile operating system has now breached 10 percent. By now powering more than a tenth of all Android devices, Android Marshmallow showed a significant improvement over the 2.3 percent it registered in March early this year.
Market research firm Gartner is saying that in 2016, the growth of smartphone sales worldwide will drop from the 14.4 percent growth registered last year to only 7 percent for this year. According to Gartner’s estimates, the volume of smartphone shipments across the globe in 2016 will only number 1.5 billion units.
The Unicode Consortium, the organization that sets all standards for letters and other characters used for universal software applications, has granted its approval to a total of 72 brand new emoji.
This week, Xiaomi has inked a deal with Microsoft in which the Chinese mobile giant will purchase about 1,500 patents from the software company. Microsoft, on the other hand, will get the chance to have its software brands, such as Office and Skype, installed in Xiaomi’s smartphones and tablet devices.
According to a report published by PageFair regarding the usage of ad blocking software on mobile devices, more than one out of five users have ad blockers on their smartphones. Specifically, PageFair’s findings indicate that at least 419 million mobile users are making use of existing tools to stop ads from appearing on their handsets. That figure is equivalent to about 22 percent of the estimated total 1.9 billion smartphone owners around the world right now.
The Google Play Store is home to more than a couple of million mobile apps, while Apple’s iTunes App Store contains more than 1.5 million. However, a new study on the usage of apps reveal that quite only a small percentage of these apps do actually manage to get installed in smartphones and tablet devices. And out of these installed apps, they are only used once by one out of four mobile users.
The United States government conducted a study that aimed to find a link between the use of smartphones and cases of cancer. The study was carried out for several years, and just this week, the results were published by the US National Toxicology Program. Specifically, the study examined closely how radio frequency radiation at frequencies typically used in American wireless networks affected rats. The findings -- there may be a potential link, but no conclusion can be definitely drawn.
Lenovo officially completed its acquisition of Motorola back in October of 2014 for a sum of $2.91 billion, but fast forwarding to more than a year later, it appears that the move is not paying off as nicely as initially planned by the Chinese mobile giant.
A research team from the University of Helsinki and Department of Psychology in Finland did a study on Internet usage, and found that too much engagement online (either through computers or mobile devices) among teenage users leads to school burnout, a term used to describe a general lack of desire to perform well in school or even go to classes altogether.
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