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Walgreens Is First To Integrate Apple Pay With Its Own Loyalty Program

Drug store giant Walgreens has just revealed that it is planning to seamlessly integrate Apple Pay, the mobile payment system developed and launched by Apple in October of last year, into its own loyalty program.

Microsoft To Email Invites For Cortana For iOS In The Coming Weeks

Microsoft had announced earlier that Cortana, its personal assistant (the company’s answer to Apple’s Siri and Google Now), would try to go head to head with the competition by offering cross platform support, including via both Android and iOS.

Merged Wireless Power Groups Now Known As AirFuel Alliance

After announcing their merger, the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) and Power Matters Alliance (PMA) have revealed that they are now known as AirFuel Alliance.

Sprint Introduces New $40 Unlimited Data Plan, But Is It Really Unlimited?

This Halloween, Sprint has announced brand new wireless plans, and is even incorporating unlimited 2G data to its Family Share Packs. Beginning October 30th of this year, the wireless carrier is offering a new $20 plan dubbed the Sprint Starter Unlimited Data Plan, wherein subscribers will get to enjoy 1 gigabyte of LTE high speed data every month, including unlimited 2G data, plus the choice of buying more high speed data any time they like.

 

Smartphone Shipments In Third Quarter Hit Near-Record Numbers

In terms of smartphone shipments across the globe, the third quarter of 2015 did really, really well, no doubt helped immensely by the worldwide release of Apple’s newest iPhone models (the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus), and strong sales from Chinese made smartphones, especially those built by Huawei.

 

Ericsson CEO: 5G Won’t Just Be About Speed

When you think of 5G, you would probably think of network speeds far quicker than the 4G LTE networks existing today. But according to Hans Vestberg, the chief executive officer of Ericsson, 5G will be more than just speedy networks, but also about features that are more intuitive and efficient in bringing about a more enhanced connectivity experience for all mobile users of the world.

 

Introducing AirConsole: A Games Platform That Turns Smartphones Into Controllers

Just recently launched, AirConsole is an Internet browser based games platform that actually has the capability of turning a user’s smartphone into a game controller. The cool thing about AirConsole is that users never have to download any game or mobile app, or even pull out their old Nintendo 64 controllers.

US Mobile Makes Changes To Voice, Data Pricing Structure

US Mobile is a T-Mobile mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) that lets its customers create their own wireless smartphone plans. The carrier makes this possible by offering a “choose your own” setup wherein customers can just select specific tiers for their voice calling, text messaging, and data usage needs. This setup is certainly ideal for some customers, especially those who like to be flexible when it comes to their monthly wireless requirements. 

 

iOS 9 Achieves 61 Percent Adoption Rate Among iOS Users

When Apple first released iOS 9, the latest version of its iOS mobile operating system, a month ago, its adoption rate enjoyed an initial spike, but has since steadied recently.

Aging Your Smartphones: How Attackers Do It

Mobile attackers have found a way to infect smartphones with a series of attacks that actually ages the integrated circuit components of devices, effectively causing them to wear themselves out. This is the subject of a research paper entitled “MAGIC: Malicious Aging in Circuits/Cores” by researchers from New York University (NYU).

 

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