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Yup, the Unicode Emoji Consortium has rolled out version Unicode version 10 just a month ago, but it appears that another batch of candidates is being proposed for deployment in 2018. In this day and age, emoji are more popular than ever, and the fact that a new class is being reviewed for approval next year is a sure sign that, yes, we really can not get enough of these cute pictograms.
Along with Argentine Leo Messi (who plays for Spanish team Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo is considered by many as the best soccer player in the world. But when it comes to winning the world of social media, the Portuguese Ronaldo (who plays for Spanish team Real Madrid, whose rivalry with Barcelona goes a long, long way) might just be the runaway winner.
Developers of mobile apps better beware -- Google has just recently revealed that it is now deploying an update to its Google Play app store that will rank quality apps higher compared to those “buggy” titles. Sure, quality is such a broad descriptor, but when it comes to apps on Google Play, the word will refer to apps that experience fewer instances of crashing, and lesser bugs and other performance related problems.
According to the results of a survey recently conducted by Circles.Life in Singapore, it turns out that about half of consumers today can not last more than a day without mobile data. For those not familiar with Circles.Life, it is considered the newest wireless carrier based in Singapore (the company made its debut in May of last year only), and it took the time to ask about 900 mobile users aged between 16 years old to 54 years old.
Spotify has added another milestone to its growing list of achievements. The music streaming giant has recently hit 60 million paying subscribers, which is equivalent to a pace of about a couple of million new subscribers in any given month. And if one takes into account the customer turnover (users who decide to terminate their accounts), the actual numbers every month may be well over 2 million new subscribers.
In the last few years, several cities in America have tried to introduce various measures in order to discourage people from being too busily engaged with their mobile devices when crossing the street. Even states have attempted to propose legislation that would require mobile users to be more careful when they are out on the street.
WhatsApp has managed to reach the 1 billion mark, not only in terms of the total daily users, but also when it comes to active users on a monthly basis (1.3 billion, to be exact, for this metric). Much of this can be attributed to a lot of things -- mainly the increased user engagement with WhatsApp Status (sort of like its equivalent of Snapchat’s Stories), voice and audio calls, and of course, text messages.
An Australian medical device company has recently launched its first Made for iPhone cochlear implant device. The company, called Cochlear, has created a sound processor that has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) back in June of this year.
US Mobile’s new Unlimited WiFi plan may well be considered the biggest of its kind in the world, in terms of providing WiFi coverage. For a price of just $10 a month, the offering gives mobile users access to more than 60 million hotspots in over 120 countries around the planet, as well as more than 35 million hotspots in the United States alone.
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