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Well, at least for now. After several weeks of careful deliberation, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has decided not to impose a proposed ban laptop devices and other personal electronic devices on flights from the European continent to America. US officials though maintain that they will be looking to take any and all measures needed in order to ensure the safety of any commercial airplane entering the US.
According to the results of a study recently published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, it appears that today’s consumers are more likely to make a rational decision when encountering a dilemma presented on a smartphone device. The study showed that users on personal computers (PCs) depend more on intuitive emotional decision making, and thus may not always pick the most rational choices.
A recent study was conducted by the Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH) and the Young Health Movement on the effects of social media platforms on the mental health of today’s mobile users. What the research team did was poll about 1,500 consumers based in the United Kingdom, especially those between 14 years old to 24 years old.
According to a report recently published by Recode, the Republican Party, among others, is urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to have robocalls be funneled directly to the user’s voicemail, even stealthily (with the smartphone device not even sending an alert to that regard).
A couple of months after Snapchat integrated a feature called Search for Stories, Instagram is now debuting a similar functionality called Story Search in order to allow mobile users to search Stories. Specifically, Instagram account holders can now search for a location or a hashtag, and then be shown a Story compilation generated from Story posts by other users that also come with that location sticker, hashtag sticker, or hashtag attached in that post’s caption.
It was last week when Apple first debuted its Today at Apple concept. The idea is to significantly expand or maybe redefine the basic concept of the Apple Store, which not only will sell Apple’s products but also host free classes and even concert events. The Today at Apple concept is basically the iPhone maker saying to everybody that they are all invited to become part of the Apple brand, if they are willing to embrace Apple as part of their lives.
Recently this week in the beautiful city of Brussels in Belgium, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) held discussions with the European Union with regards to the subject of possibly banning big electronic devices from being taken aboard the cabin of commercial flights coming from the European continent to the US, according to a report recently published by the Associated Press. After the talks, a decision was made, and it favors not going through with the ban.
Google yet again continues to try to make Internet surfing on mobile devices a more improved experience. Recently during its annual I/O developer conference, the tech giant revealed that its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) service is now currently on more than a couple of billion mobile web pages, spanning over 900,000 domains in the world wide web.
Over 300,000 computers in more than a hundred countries around the world have been affected by the WannaCry cyberattack. For those not familiar with WannaCry, it works by exploiting outdated versions of Windows, especially those that never got updated with relatively recently rolled out security patches from Microsoft.
Almost a week ago, Straight Path had announced that it had struck a merger deal with Verizon Wireless that will effectively have the biggest wireless carrier in the United States pay about $3.1 billion (by way of an all stock transaction) in order to acquire Straight Path. The Big Red was in a hotly contested bidding war with AT&T (the number two mobile operator in America) for the spectrum holder’s airwaves.
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