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Well, well, well -- Apple has recently published an official list of cars that come with built in wireless charging pads that have support for the Qi wireless charging standard developed by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC).
Apple’s mobile payment system, Apple Pay, is now being used in 20 mobile markets around the world, and it appears that it continues to be the preferred contactless mode of payment wherever the service is supported. Merchants and other establishments who have struck a partnership with Apple to provide support for Apple Pay are claiming that the service is comfortably making up 90 percent of all mobile payment transactions in countries where Apple Pay is made available.
From July to September of this year, the amount of revenues generated from mobile apps and the volume of app downloads was at their highest ever, according to the new report recently released by App Annie.
The chat messaging platform of the most widely used social media network in the planet now allows users in the United States to send cash to their friends using PayPal. Furthermore, PayPal’s first customer service bot is now also integrated into Facebook’s Messenger. This bot should help handle queries from customers as well as requests for online assistance.
Popular messaging platforms such as Facebook’s Messenger and Apple’s iMessage already offer a feature that allows their respective users to share location information to family or friends in real time. WhatsApp is now joining in on the party. The service is promising to soon make its new Live Location feature available to both its Android and iOS users.
Chip making giant Qualcomm has managed to perform a 5G data connection on a 5G modem chip set built specifically for mobile devices. As pointed out by Sherif Hanna, product management and product marketing for mobile at Qualcomm, this achievement is the first ever of its kind across the globe.
Needless to say, the population of mobile users is continuing to increase in major mobile markets across the globe, and that can only mean one thing -- networks will soon find themselves having to shoulder the ever growing volume of traffic. And when 5G makes its commercial debut a couple of years from now (give or take), networks will probably not get any less crowded than they already are.
In the last 24 hours or so, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approve several Special Temporary Authority (STA) applications from various mobile operators who want to immediately push through with efforts to restore wireless connection services in Puerto Rico. As of now, the country is still without much power or mobile connectivity about three weeks since Hurricane Maria had hit.
According to a new report recently released by Sensor Tower, Apple’s ARKit has now been installed over 3 million times around the world by way of a host of mobile apps and games powered by the augmented reality (AR) platform. Of that 3 million downloads, it turns out that majority of them are games (53 percent).
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