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The United States Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has recently released its report regarding electronic device searches at the border for the entire year of 2017, and the numbers are particularly telling -- the agency has conducted border searches on a total of 30,200 phones and laptop devices in the last twelve months.
During the weekend, a couple of Apple shareholders -- namely, Jana Partners LLC and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System -- had written an open letter urging the second biggest vendor of smartphone devices in the world to make a more pronounced effort to combat mobile addiction, especially among kids.
Smartphones have become one of the most widely used consumer products in the last decade or so, and Apple’s iPhone (originally released in 2007) has played a significant role in letting that happen. But in the last few years, there has been plenty of discussion about the potential danger of too much smartphone use, not only for adults, for also when it comes to kids.
Stanford University recently conducted a study in which they divided a total of 125 students and put them into three groups -- one wherein they were allowed to use their mobile device as they like, another wherein they were instructed to put their handset on the table within their line of sight but not touch the handset, and the last group wherein no phones were used at all. Each group was placed inside an unadorned room and left there for a period of six minutes.
Florida is one of the last states in all of America that have not yet enforced a full ban on texting while driving. But that soon could change, as the state’s lawmakers prepare to review a bill that proposes such a ban.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has recently released guidelines on mobile phone safety, and while the agency does not explicitly say that the use of cell phones is risky, it did advise caution for all handset owners in the Golden State. In the guidelines, the CDPH notes that several studies have already suggested that radio frequency signals from mobile devices may have links to some types of cancer, reduced sperm count, memory and cognitive issues, and even sleep disorders.
How do you modernize car rental services? For Avis Budget Group, Inc. and Continental, you do it by making the whole car rental process 100 percent keyless, and taking full advantage of perhaps the most ubiquitous electronic gadget existing today -- the smartphone.
According to the latest report recently released by Gartner, the top five smartphone vendors across the globe during the third quarter of this year are Samsung, Apple, Huawei, Oppo, and Xiaomi, and except for Apple, all of them have registered double digit growth during the the three month span. Apple only recorded an increase in smartphone sales of 5.7 percent (more on Apple later).
According to a recent report released by IDC, the pace of growth of phablets (smartphone devices with super size display screens) will reach 18.1 percent four years from now. Meanwhile, by that time, the growth rate of the total smartphone market is expected to be at 3 percent. Furthermore, at least half of the total volume of shipments of Apple’s iPhone devices will be of the phablet kind.
Black Friday mania might get exaggerated at times (and we get the feeling that sellers like it that way), but this annual event does serve up some really interesting and worthwhile deals, if one only knows where to look. With regards to that, we can offer some assistance through our official Black Friday smartphone sales guide.
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