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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted its approval on a new set of regulations that should help in minimizing (or eliminating altogether) robocalls. According to the agency, it routinely gets more than 200,000 complains on a yearly basis regarding unwanted phone calls, which include those annoying robocalls.
Consulting firm Deloitte had recently conducted a survey on mobile users based in the United States, and just this week, it released the results of its 2017 Global Mobile Consumer Survey. The company’s data shows that close to half of Americans are making a deliberate effort to significantly minimize their mobile device usage.
We actually posed this question more than a couple of weeks ago, and now in light of some recent and very relevant news, we might have to ask it again -- is Face ID safe? Of course, the news being referred to is that of a Vietnam based security software firm that reportedly was able to hack the facial recognition system, and even posted a video demo on YouTube last Friday.
As reported by CBS Chicago, two council members in the city of Chicago, Anthony Beale and Edward Burke, are proposing a law that would impose a fine on mobile users who are caught text messaging while traversing crosswalks.
Apple had actually offered to aid the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with regards to accessing an iPhone unit used by Texas church shooter Devin Patrick Kelley. The tech giant had apparently heard that the agency was having difficulties unlocking the device. During the recent weekend, Kelley had opened fire inside a Texas church, killing 26 people and injuring 20 others before taking his own life.
Strategy Analytics has recently released a new report that says that the volume of smartphone shipments in the United States mobile market has hit 39.5 million units during the third quarter of this year. That figure however represents a 2 percent decrease compared to that of Q3 2016 (40.1 million units).
For the longest time, the two biggest mobile markets in the planet were China and the United States. China, of course, is number one, mainly because apart from being a major mobile market, it also happens to be the most populous country in the world. As for the United States, its smartphone adoption is very, very high, despite the fact that its population is only about a fourth of China’s.
Well, well, well -- Apple has recently published an official list of cars that come with built in wireless charging pads that have support for the Qi wireless charging standard developed by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC).
Chip making giant Qualcomm has managed to perform a 5G data connection on a 5G modem chip set built specifically for mobile devices. As pointed out by Sherif Hanna, product management and product marketing for mobile at Qualcomm, this achievement is the first ever of its kind across the globe.
Google did not disappoint in its unveiling event, not only debuting two new Pixel smartphone devices, but also lots of other cool and interesting stuff. Of course, people will likely be talking about the new Pixel 2 phones in the days and weeks to come, and they should be, but for those who want to get an overall picture of the new toys that Google just announced, here’s a quick guide.