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As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Apple is indeed announcing a new music streaming service next week, and it will offer unlimited access to songs at $10 a month. The new service's setup will reportedly be similar to Spotify's in terms of functionality and capabilities.
During its I/O Conference held in San Francisco, Google once again emphasized its push for cheaper mobile devices in emerging mobile markets around across the globe. The search giant believes that emerging markets have the greatest potential of growth. It even stated that it is expecting 1.2 billion units of smartphones to be sold in emerging markets such as China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and Indonesia. And for sure, a significant chunk of this number will be handsets that are powered by Android, the mobile operating system that Google itself developed.
Google just launched Smart Lock for Passwords during the I/O Conference recently held in San Francisco. As its name implies, Smart Lock for Passwords is basically a password managing tool for logging in to Android mobile apps or to the web. It is built into the user's Google account, which makes for a convenient and safe way of managing passwords for various apps for mobile devices.
The Apple brand is back at the top. At least according to a report called the BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands recently published by advertising firm WPP and market research firm Millward Brown. This report aims to rank the top brands of the world according to their value based on a combination of market data and surveys from customers.
Microsoft just recently revealed that it is expanding its list of partners that are bundling Microsoft Office apps and services for mobile devices running on the Android mobile operating system. To be specific, the company is expanding it to 20 new entities which will have Office apps pre-installed on their hardware. The total number of partners on Microsoft's Android hardware manufacturer program is now at 31.
Apple is on a constant mission to always improve on its mobile operating system, iOS, in every version it releases to the masses. iOS 9 will surely be no exception, and upon its release, we can expect the usual talk about debugging technical issues and enhancing system stability. Of course, there will be some new features too. But perhaps the most intriguing thing is that Apple is reportedly working to improve support for older iOS running devices, particularly older models of iPhones and iPads, even those that are not being sold in stores anymore.
Consider this scenario: You just got a chat message via the Facebook Messenger mobile app from somebody you are not sure you have met before. Is this person that cute one from Accounting, or worse, a psycho?
Google has now added tweets to its search results on mobile, through the official Google mobile app on the Android and iOS operating systems, as well as on web browsers made for mobile devices. The tweet-including search results can be triggered by using the keyword "Twitter" especially when googling for specific Twitter accounts and hashtags. However, if you just use any standard search, surface tweets will also be taken into consideration when displaying search results.
Child advocacy groups are once again attacking Google's YouTube Kids mobile app for showing content that is not appropriate for children, and this time, they are adopting a more serious approach in airing their sentiments.
The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood (CCFC) are joining forces in writing a letter to the Federal Trade Commission. In the letter, both groups stressed that the YouTube Kids mobile app is actually rife with content that is not only inappropriate for children, but also potentially unsafe too.
It is no secret that Facebook wants its users to be on Facebook as much as possible. After all, this social media giant's business model has always been predicated on keeping its users engaged within its pages for as long as it can, and in the process, keeping itself happy (by generating review via advertising to Facebook users) and publishers and merchants, too.
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