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During the holidays, officials in New York had promised that all underground subway train stations in the city would have cellular coverage by the start of the new year. Well, train riding mobile users of the Big Apple will be delighted to know that there is some significant progress just barely a week into 2017.
Music streaming services managed to register a very significant growth in 2016. According to a report published by Nielsen Music just this week, music streaming surpassed digital sales of music for the first time in the United States market. This is another proof that consumers, especially mobile users, are steadily veering away from consuming music by way of digital downloads, from service providers such as Apple’s iTunes, and turning instead to music streaming service providers.
AT&T has announced its plans to launch a trial in Austin, the capital of the state of Texas, starting in the first six months of this year. This planned trial will have customers based in the city stream DirecTV Now video content by way of a fixed wireless 5G network set up by the major US wireless carrier.
It has not always been a bed of roses for American tech giants when trying to do business in China. Qualcomm is no exception to this. About a couple of years ago, the chip maker giant was slapped with a fine amounting to close to a billion dollars after it was found to be in violation of Chinese antitrust regulations.
According to new information published by analytics firm Mixpanel, iPhone 7 came out the winner over the busy holiday shopping season, with Apple’s latest iPhone model outselling Google’s Pixel devices. During the first few days after Christmas Day, the volume of unique iPhone 7 activations improved by 12.7 percent, compared with an 8.5 percent increase for Pixel smartphones.
After various reports surfaced that Niantic was cancelling its plans to bring its best selling mobile game, Pokemon Go, to the Apple Watch, the games developer recently made announcement saying that it is now launching a version of its ridiculously popular app that works on Apple’s smartwatch device.
Chatbots sound exactly like how they are called. They are computer programs that are designed to engage people in chat conversations. But with the latest advances in programming and machine learning, chatbots are getting smarter than ever, and more and more companies are using them to interact with their respective customers. Some of the names are big global brands like Google, Facebook, and even Pizza Hut.
For Apple using parents who still do not have the faintest idea, there actually are parental controls built into the iOS mobile operating system. They are called Restrictions, and generally let moms and dads protect their kid’s privacy, limit access to inappropriate content, and protect their credit card from their child(ren).
About a couple of months ago, Twitter had revealed that it was planning to lay its Vine mobile app to rest. Fast forwarding to December however, the social media giant has instead decided to let the short form video sharing platform live on, but as a new app called Vine Camera. With the rebranded app, users will still be able to make those addictive six second long videos, but it looks like the bigger Vine community will no longer be there.
According to a report published by South Korean tech news website Electronic Times, LG Electronics, which produces display for mobile devices, will be supplying the folding screens for powerhouse phone makers such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft. The report says that LG Electronics will begin mass producing the folding screens in 2018.
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