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BlackBerry’s Priv smartphone used to be only available at AT&T and T-Mobile. But Verizon Wireless has since announced that it is also selling the BlackBerry device, although at a higher price.
According to market research firm IDC, the growth rate of smartphone shipments in the world is expected to decrease to 5.7 percent in 2016. This is a far cry from the 10.4 percent increase that global smartphone shipments posted in terms of growth rate in the previous year. This is a further sign that worldwide, the market for smartphones are indeed slowing down.
During a hearing session that lasted more than five hours, members of the House Judiciary Committee peppered James Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), as well as Bruce Sewell, General Counsel for Apple, over matters of national security and protecting the privacy of individuals. But at the end of the day, it appears that the only thing the two sides had in common was a willingness to keep the debate raging on.
Ever since it was launched in the United States market back in September of last year, Samsung Pay has achieved faster growth than Apple Pay, as reported by Bloomberg.
During the recently concluded Mobile World Congress held in the city of Barcelona in Spain, there was much talk about 5G technology and how it might shape up the mobile world in the years to come. The generation of wireless tech next to today’s 4G is said to be a hundred times faster, and even better than what Google Fiber delivers via a physical connection to homes. But a concept of an ultra fast network may still sound like a vague idea to some, so let us go through some scenarios.
Bruce Sewell is the senior vice president of Legal and Government Affairs at Apple, and the iPhone maker is sending him to the nation’s capital to speak on behalf of the company at a hearing scheduled on Tuesday, March 1st before the Senate Judiciary Committee on striking a balance between matters of national security and the privacy of individual mobile users.
Around half a decade ago, tablet devices were billed as the next new thing. Indeed, back in 2010, Apple has just launched its first iPad device, with its closest competitor Samsung also busy developing its Galaxy Tab, and other players in the mobile industry also preparing to release their own Android powered tablet devices.
Carolina Milanesi, chief of research at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, has released a report saying that smartphone ownership in major smartphone markets around the world have now reached full saturation levels. In other words, Milanesi thinks that the global smartphone industry is now at its peak, in terms of growth.
This week, Tim Cook, the chief executive officer of Apple, had emailed a message to the company’s employees regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s request to unlock a certain iPhone device. Using the subject line “Thank you for your support,”, the email contains a number of references to the open letter that Cook sent out last week.
Earlier this week, a federal judge had ordered Apple to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by unlocking a certain iPhone device linked to the terrorist attacked that happened in December of last year in the city of San Bernardino in the state of California. The court order originally had Apple reply to the order in five days, which means that the deadline for the response would be Tuesday of next week.
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