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The first three months of 2016 was not so good to Microsoft’s mobile business. Well, nobody actually expected the company to do well, but even then, the first quarter of the year has been dismal to software giant’s mobile hopes. Based on the latest quarterly report released by Microsoft, it registered a drop in mobile revenues of 46 percent.
Based on information collected from a sample of 53,000 American users, it appears that more and more people in the United States are ditching their regular wired web access (via home Internet) for mobile data, preferring to browse the information superhighway using their smartphones and tablet devices instead of desktop computers, as reported by the Washington Post.
Earlier this month, popular chat messaging mobile App WhatsApp has announced that it was encrypting every message sent by its more than a billion users. Well now, another major messaging platform is following in WhatsApp’s footsteps in going for total encryption.
Now that other potential bidders are taking themselves out of contention, it appears that Verizon Wireless has become the most likely to purchase Yahoo’s mobile business. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the biggest wireless carrier in the United States was one of several business entities looking to submit a preliminary bid this Monday.
In a document filed in a federal court case in New York, Apple expressed some harsh words for the Justice Department. The iPhone maker argued that the mere fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was able to unlock an iPhone device without any assistance whatsoever from Apple is evidence that the feds did not need any help in the first place.
Two of the biggest power players in the history of tech -- search giant Google and social media king Facebook -- are separately testing wireless broadband projects that are aimed at boosting fixed line networks. And these projects from these titans have the potential of disrupting the current wireless industry.
According to analysts of Wells Fargo Securities, T-Mobile is looking to be the only major US wireless carrier to post some growth in postpaid net phone additions during the first quarter of this year. Wells Fargo predicts that the third biggest wireless carrier in the United States will register 1.4 million net new users, marking a 12th straight quarter in which it managed over 1 million net additions.
HTC has officially announced its newest flagship device, the HTC 10. As can be expected of any major smartphone release from the Taiwanese phone maker, the HTC is a high end smartphone offering with plenty of impressive specifications and features. But in an incredibly competitive Android smartphone market, it is somewhat puzzling that HTC’s latest high profile device will be offered by only three of the Big Four wireless carriers in the United States.
The Apple Watch is about to celebrate its first birthday. After debuting in 2015, the first and only wearable device so far from Apple has quickly captured the throne in the global smartwatch market. However, despite some strong, solid efforts from various big names in the tech industry (including Tag Heuer) to introduce new smartwatch offerings, demand for smartwatch devices remain well below mainstream acceptance levels.
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