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We now live in a world where almost everybody owns a smartphone. Indeed, smartphones have now become an integral part of our daily living, whether it is for work, for entertainment, or even for fitness and health.
But despite the many benefits that they have provided for people living in the 21st century, smartphones may also have negative effects on our lives, at least according to some circles. One notable British child psychologist, Julie Lynn Evans, even believes that smartphones may be causing people, especially kids, to be more stressful.
Finally, users can now take full advantage of Google's Android Auto smartphone interface for automobiles as the first of the aftermarket units hit the market this week. In the United States, the new Pioneer AVIC-8100NEX, AVIC-7100NEX, and AVH-4100NEX models will all come with Android Auto integration.
Postmates, a company that specializes in on-demand delivery services, has inked an agreement with Starbucks to deliver the US coffee giant's beverages to customers who ordered through the Starbucks mobile app. Soon, with just a tap on your mobile device, you can now have your coffee delivered right to your home or office.
Pinterest's valuation has increased to $11 billion after it has raised $367 million in its latest round of funding. With that valuation, the social media site is now one of the most valuable venture capital-back startup companies today.
The creators of the phenomenally popular social networking website confirmed the financing in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A spokesperson for Pinterest further explained that the company is targeting to raise another $211 million, aiming to hit a total of $578 million in the Series G round.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officially released a 400 page PDF that states in detail the new and more rigid rules and regulations it has formulated for broadband services.
After a very competitive holiday period in which wireless carriers in the United States threw seemingly endless promos after promos, it seems that the price war in between network providers are beginning to subside. Indeed, we have seen some carriers raising back their fees and ending their special offers.
John Stephens, Chief Financial Officer of AT&T, certainly agrees. According to Stephens, the field of competition in the wireless industry seems to have stabilized and he expresses confidence about AT&T's chances of competing in the next quarter or so.
iTunes Match, Google Play Music, and Amazon Cloud Player are providers that all you to access your music files in the cloud. The setup with their services usually involve scanning your songs from your personal library and then matching them with the same songs already saved in the cloud. If a particular song is not available in the cloud, you will be given a chance to upload that song from your personal library. All three of them have different advantages to offer to music lovers, and on the flip side, they also have their own set of disadvantages.
We all may have heard it before. The one about wearable devices being the next big thing. Certain circles have even gone to the extent of declaring that wearable devices will soon supplant smartphones as the foremost mobile device of choice for everyone. But so far, we haven't seen anything like that yet, especially in the minds of most consumers (save perhaps for fitness tracking geeks) who generally still think of wearable devices as more cute than functional.
Last year, Apple bought Beats Music to the tune of $3 billion. But since completing its acquisition, the company has been relatively quiet about its plans for the Beats Music streaming service.
Mobile payment systems are gaining traction today, especially with the high profile release of Apple Pay, the near field communications (NFC) based system that Apple developed and released late last year. Since then, we have seen lots of retailers, banking institutions, credit card companies, and soon, even vending machines, gas pumps, and federal agencies support Apple Pay. The good thing about the launch of Apple Pay is that is also encouraged consumers to pay attention to mobile payment systems in general, including those that existed way before Apple introduced its own system.
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