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According to the latest report recently released by App Annie, mobile users based in the United States spend 10 hours every year (or close to 50 minutes on a monthly basis) in shopping apps. Naturally, as more and more people own smartphone devices, mobile shopping is sure to grow too, with digital first apps like Amazon and Etsy making it easy for consumers to buy stuff online.
Twitter is offering a new feature and it is called Happening Now. What the feature does basically is highlight numerous tweets revolving a specific trending topic, with emphasis on sports primarily, as well as on other news related to entertainment, and other current events. According to the social media giant, this latest feature is now being deployed to Android and iOS platforms.
Google’s AMP Project (Accelerated Mobile Pages Project) should get a boost with the tech giant’s recent acquisition of Relay Media, a company that has created the AMP Converter technology that helps in making web pages AMP friendly. It is possible that under the acquisition deal, Relay Media will be closed down, with its technology transitioned to Google’s platform.
Just in time for Halloween, Apple is debuting hundreds of additional emoji that should land on iPhone and iPad tablet devices soon. According to the tech giant, some of the new emoji consist of new food pictogram representations, as well as fresh ones for mythical creatures and monsters (cutified, of course), and smiley faces that are more emotive. This latest batch of emoji is coming to Apple mobile devices by way of the upcoming roll out of iOS 11.1.
In this day and age, smartphone owners can be sorted into two basic groups: Android users and iOS users. Sure, there are some people out there who still choose to use a Microsoft powered mobile device, but they are very, very few. Now when it comes to smart speakers, it turns out that the choice of OS is as equally shared, too, at least according to a survey recently conducted by securities intelligence firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP).
Google did not disappoint in its unveiling event, not only debuting two new Pixel smartphone devices, but also lots of other cool and interesting stuff. Of course, people will likely be talking about the new Pixel 2 phones in the days and weeks to come, and they should be, but for those who want to get an overall picture of the new toys that Google just announced, here’s a quick guide.
Madefire officially announced today that its digital comic book collection now includes titles from arguably the most recognizable comic book publishing company in the world -- Marvel. In other words, users of the Madefire mobile app now can enjoy access to some of the most loved comic book titles of all time, like Avengers, X-Men, the Amazing Spider-Man, and Iron Man, just to name few, in clear, digital format.
It is not just Apple that is having some fun with facial recognition tech. It appears that the most widely used social media platform in the planet is also busy experimenting with this technology, especially as a method for authenticating a user’s identity. This should prove useful for Facebook account holders, particularly in instances wherein people can not get two factor authentication SMS (when visiting another country or when situated in an area with no mobile coverage, just to cite a couple of examples), or when they can not access their personal inbox.