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Five chairpersons of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will be voting on the foundation for a future wherein 5G technology is a reality. Sure, there is nothing wrong with today’s current LTE and LTE Advance wireless technologies, but as more and more consumers increase their mobile usage, they will demand faster and more reliable connection speeds, it is inevitable that 5G tech will enter into the picture, sooner or later.
Silent Circle, the firm who developed and released Blackphone, an Android powered handset focused on privacy and security, is going through some tough circumstances right now. It has been forced to let go of 20 members of its workforce (which has reduced its staff to about 85 percent) in the last half year. Now it is mulling whether it has the ability to build future models of Blackphone at all. On top of that, the company is trying to recoup the millions of dollars it spent in launching its smartphone, which until now has yet to meet sales expectations.
According to Bank of America’s latest Trends in Consumer Mobility Report, 40 percent of millennials, i.e. people who came of age right around the year 2000, make full use of their smartphones in trying to avoid talking to other people, especially relatives on holiday get togethers like Thanksgiving, for instance.
In an effort to try and help more people, Apple has updated its Health app to include a simpler process for organ donation. As announced by the company on Tuesday, the Health app will make it easy for its users to sign up to be an organ donor. The app currently has a Medical ID feature that keeps track of a user's health and medical information. With the update, this feature will be able to include whether or not the individual is a donor of his eyes, tissues, and other organs.
According to report published by Neowin, hackers can use break into tens of millions of Android powered mobile devices by way of full disk encryption, thanks to a series of security flaws associated with Android kernel issues and Qualcomm chips.
The second biggest wireless carrier in the United States is debuting the first giveaway deal of its new AT&T Thanks rewards program. In this offer, the mobile service provider is offering one free movie ticket to customers when they pay for the first ticket at full price. It might be interesting to some that the offer is being made on a Tuesday this summer season and is called Ticket Twosdays (what say you, T-Mobile?) and at AMC or Regal cinemas.
Qualcomm has just revealed that it is optimizing its Snapdragon lineup of chips in order to be able to run Google’s Project Tango augmented reality technology. Indeed, the largest builder of processors in the world has stated that its Snapdragon 652 and Snapdragon 820 processors both have support for Tango, a type of technology that grants mobile users the ability to use any smartphone or tablet device with animated information overlaid on the real world.
Mobile users worldwide are demanding more advanced messaging services from carriers, according to a report released by the Groupe Spéciale Mobile Association (GSMA). A research conducted by Context Consulting (and commissioned by the GSMA) polled more than 4,000 mobile users from the United States, China, India, and Spain, and basically surveyed them regarding their use of standard mobile operator voice and SMS services, plus web based messaging services.
Watch out, wireless carriers in America. Cable operators could take 20 percent of the wireless market in the United States in half a decade -- well, at least according to industry watchers at New Street Research. In the research note that New Street distributed to investors over the weekend, the research firm stated that mobile service providers are facing slowed customer growth and increase average revenue per user (ARPU) and revenue pressure, and they will soon find themselves dealing with cable companies taking some of their market share in the world of wireless.
Now that the United States Court of Appeals has upheld the net neutrality rules imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over a year ago, advocates of those rules are demanding that the agency take immediate action in addressing zero rating deals offered by various broadband and wireless companies.
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