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A team of mathematicians from the University of Michigan have made full use of a mobile app in order to collect information regarding sleep patterns of various mobile users across the globe. Through the app (Entrain, which is designed to minimize jetlag), the researchers looked into how age, gender, amount of light, and native homeland affect how much sleep people are getting around the world, as well as what time time they go to sleep and get out of bed.
Regulating bodies in the United States now want to gather more information about how phone makers and wireless carriers go about dealing with security issues in mobile devices. At the same time, the feds want to know why fixes for bugs and vulnerabilities take too darned long be deployed. Indeed, both the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have sent letters of inquiries to more than a dozen firms, collecting data about how mobile manufacturers and network operators handle security updates.
According to a new study conducted by several of Australia’s foremost cancer experts, there is no correlation between brain cancer and regular mobile phone use. The study was headed by Simon Chapman, the emeritus professor of public health at the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney’s.
According to a report published by Bloomberg, Apple has plans of making some changes to Apple Music, the music streaming subscription service that the tech giant launched back in June of last year.
As far as features are concerned, Fitbit wearable devices are certainly not as packed as Apple’s smartwatch. But the company does not mind that at all, as expressed by James Park, the chief executive officer of Fitbit. As a matter of fact, Park seems to think that the Apple Watch wants to be everything in the eyes of mobile users.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted (3 to 2) to proceed with reforms of special lines. This move by the FCC looks to be beneficial to a couple of major US wireless carriers -- T-Mobile and Sprint -- and may even preempt price hikes in light of the upcoming commercial deployment of 5G networks.
Comcast is one of the many business entities joining in the Federal Communications Commission’s incentive auction, which is offering 600 MegaHertz airwaves to interested bidders. Such an auction is normally participated by players from wireless industry, and for sure, Comcast might find itself bidding against some of the biggest mobile network service providers in all of America.
The total volume of shipments of smartwatch devices around the world have tripled in the first three months of this year. Indeed, according to information provided by market research firm Strategy Analytics just this week, manufacturers of smartwatches have shipped 4.2 million units of these wearable devices during the first quarter of 2016. Certainly not bad -- considering that the 4.2 million units of smartwatch devices shipped across the globe represents a 223 percent increase compared to the 1.3 million units shipped worldwide during the first quarter of 2015.
As revealed by Tim Cook, the chief executive officer of Apple, during a conference call to discuss the tech giant’s latest quarterly earnings report, Apple Music has now grown to 13 million paid subscribers. Cook also added that the company is proud of what its first subscription business has achieved, especially in helping Apple’s Music revenue reach an inflection point after several months of decline.
It was bound to happen eventually, despite Apple’s historically dominant streak. This week, the tech giant registered its first ever decrease in iPhone sales, with the total volume of iPhone shipments falling 16 percent to 51.2 million units. That figure is clearly not as good as the 61.1 million units of iPhone devices that Apple shipped during the first quarter of last year, but right around the 51 million units projected by most industry watchers for the months spanning January to March of this year.
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