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Amazon adds remote access feature to FreeTime parental controls

This piece of news may be a welcome one for Amazon users who have kids -- the tech giant is rolling out a new update for its Parent Dashboard in Amazon FreeTime that should allow parents to better manage their kid’s mobile usage, remotely from their smartphone, tablet, or even personal computer.

Google and Kajeet team up to bring Wi-Fi to school buses

Kajeet has recently revealed that it has struck a partnership with Google in order to provide Wi-Fi connectivity in school buses. Google has an initiative called Rolling Study Halls, and the aim of this project is to equip school buses with Wi-Fi connections in a dozen states across America beginning this year.

Latest Wirefly carrier speed report: Industry leaders dominate

Wirefly has released its most recent Cell Phone Carrier Internet Speed Rankings for the final quarter of 2017 through the first three months of this year, and it appears that the two biggest mobile operators are not only leading the industry in terms of the size of their subscriber base, but also in terms of how fast their average overall web connection speeds are:

5G: Can it work in developing countries?

No doubt about it, a world with 5G would be wonderful -- super fast download and upload speeds, ultra reliable network connections, connected cars, smart homes and appliances, and basically the concept of the Internet of Things brought to life. Needless to say, everybody can not wait for the 5G era to begin.

Number of music streaming subscribers in America now equal Canada’s population

Okay, okay -- almost. According to information recently released by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the total number of paid subscriptions in the United States for on demand music streaming brands such as Spotify and Apple Music has increased 56 percent in 2017, now reaching a staggering 35.3 million people. That nearly equals the population of the whole country of Canada, which is at 36.29 million (as of 2016).

Ford planning to make all cars 4G-ready by decade’s end

In helping usher in the era of the Internet of Things, Ford is looking to introduce major changes to its current lineup of vehicles in order to make over the air (OTA) connected car updates and the concept of the Transportation Mobility Cloud possible. And the automotive giant is planning to get started on things by incorporating 4G LTE connectivity to all of its cars by the end of this decade.

Introducing GameOn: Amazon’s new gaming platform

Amazon has just officially unveiled Amazon GameOn, which the tech giant is describing as a cross platform, competitive gaming platform for developers.

California Senator introduces most restrictive Net Neutrality legislation yet

Recently this week, State Senator Scott Wiener (a Democrat from San Francisco) has proposed a legislation (designated as Bill 822) that would basically implement Obama era net neutrality regulations (since repealed by the Federal Communications Commission under President Donald Trump’s administrat

YouTube on iOS now has a dark mode

This should be good news for those iPhone or iPod users who like their video watching experience dressed in black (so to speak). Google has recently announced this week that it is now offering a dark mode for YouTube's mobile app on iOS (no need to fret, Android users -- it is coming your way soon, too). As soon as users activate the dark theme, the background interface of the app immediately shifts from the customary white to a moodier black color. 

Google now working to make AMP a standard that everyone can use

Everyone can basically agree that Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is a swell idea -- after all, we do most of our googling (and all other Internet surfing activities) through our mobile devices nowadays, and having websites load faster on smartphones or tablets certainly makes super sense.

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