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Apple had actually offered to aid the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with regards to accessing an iPhone unit used by Texas church shooter Devin Patrick Kelley. The tech giant had apparently heard that the agency was having difficulties unlocking the device. During the recent weekend, Kelley had opened fire inside a Texas church, killing 26 people and injuring 20 others before taking his own life.
Strategy Analytics has recently released a new report that says that the volume of smartphone shipments in the United States mobile market has hit 39.5 million units during the third quarter of this year. That figure however represents a 2 percent decrease compared to that of Q3 2016 (40.1 million units).
Google has recently revealed that it is planning to introduce a new functionality that will have Google Search (and soon, Google Maps) display estimated wait times for restaurants in a specific area. This neat new feature is actually a sort of extension of an already existing tool that offers information about a business establishment’s peak hours.
Not long after it officially announced that it was stopping merger discussions with T-Mobile, Sprint is now revealing that it has forged a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) agreement with Altice, the number four biggest cable service provider in the United States.
Amidst talks of the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus not living up to expectations sales wise, it appears that Apple is not having a bad third quarter after all. As a matter of fact, the tech giant has just released its Q3 2017 earnings report and it is actually having quite a good three month run, with revenues generally beating analysts’ projections.
It was more than a couple of years ago when Google first introduced YouTube Kids, the kid friendly version of its YouTube app. Fast forwarding to 2017, the tech giant is introducing new upgrades to the service, including a tool for setting up personalized profiles for kids, and expanded controls for added security for both parents and their kids.
Recently this week, OpenSignal has released its latest report on mobile coverage across the globe, and it has named Singapore as the country with the fastest mobile download speeds in the world (no surprise there, considering how Singaporeans can’t last a day without mobile data). Not far behind is South Korea, which is home to mobile giants such as Samsung and LG.
Charter Communications has once again declared its intention of debuting its own wireless service some time within the first six months of 2018, and the cable giant is planning to become more than just a standard mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). Similar to what its competitor Comcast had done, Charter had struck an MVNO partnership with the number one carrier in the United States, Verizon Wireless, about six years ago.
For the longest time, the two biggest mobile markets in the planet were China and the United States. China, of course, is number one, mainly because apart from being a major mobile market, it also happens to be the most populous country in the world. As for the United States, its smartphone adoption is very, very high, despite the fact that its population is only about a fourth of China’s.
During a hearing regarding the status and future of the commercial satellite industry, OneWeb testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology, along with other companies like Intelsat, SpaceX, and ViaSat. As revealed by Greg Wyler, the founder and executive chairman of OneWeb, the company is looking to fully pursue its plans of providing high speed Internet connectivity, not only to underserved markets but also to the most inaccessible places around the world, by taking full advantage of satellite technology.
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