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AT&T is accusing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of favoritism when it comes to enforcing the government agency’s rules. Last week, the American wireless carrier sent a letter to Tom Wheeler, chairman of FCC, saying that the agency has been slow in approving a Wi-Fi waiver for a particular calling feature that does not meet the FCC’s rules about accessibility for speech and hearing impaired mobile users.
Next week, Pandora will be a decade old. And it is planning to celebrate that momentous occasion by getting rid of commercials. Well, at least for one day. The music streaming service provider has announced that it will be turning off its ads on September 9th in order to commemorate the tenth anniversary of its release.
It appears that Vine is strengthening its music related features by introducing new tools that would allow its users to incorporate music to their videos, as well as make it easier for them to discover music tracks on videos shared by other users. These two new features are officially called the Snap To Beat feature and the Featured Tracks tool. Basically, the Snap To Beat feature lets users make perfectly looping music tracks to the videos they are creating.
TuneIn, a radio service provider, has just launched a new subscription service called TuneIn Premium. Costing $7.99 a month, TuneIn Premium offers music lovers loads of new premium content, plus a nice zero advertising feature. TuneIn is considered one of the most well known radio apps that work on both the Android and iOS platforms. A big reason for this is the mobile app’s extensive database of live radios across the globe.
Masayoshi Son is not only the chief executive officer of Japanese wireless carrier SoftBank. He also happens to serve as the chairman of Sprint. And during a recent quarterly conference call with industry watchers, Son had expressed some criticism of the current state of the quality of the wireless network in the United States, specifically calling out American wireless carriers for providing “very bad” network.
FreedomPop, the American wireless carrier primarily known for offering free voice and data services, has just raised an additional $10 million in funding from two investors -- the pan-Asian wireless carrier Axiata, and a yet to be revealed tech investor that hails from the United States. By striking a deal with Axiata, FreedomPop has put itself in a good position to expands its wireless services in Asian regions for the first time.
Huawei is now the third largest vendor of mobile phones in the world, supplanting Microsoft, at least according to a new report published by market research firm Strategy Analytics.
With little or no innovation in tablet technology and with tablet upgrades few and far between, the tablet market continues to slow down, declining 7 percent year over year during the second quarter of 2015, as reported by market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC).
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