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Because of the popularity of mobile video streaming services (Verizon Wireless’ Go90, T-Mobile’s Binge On), it is sometimes easy to forget that certain phone makers still decide to equip their smartphone products with support for FM radio, especially for their devices that they are targeting to be released in emerging mobile markets. But why, you may ask?
No doubt iPhone owners have tried doing this -- closing all mobile apps running in the background on their iPhones in order to conserve battery power. But as made clear by Craig Federighi, the senior vice president of software engineering at Apple, those background apps actually do not have any effect on an iPhone’s battery.
The legal battle between Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has hit some headlines lately, and has certainly got people talking about individual privacy, national secrecy, and of course, mobile encryption. As for that last one -- mobile encryption -- not all mobile users actually know what is and what is not encrypted on their mobile devices. Hence, we created a post to provide a primer on that subject.
As revealed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) via an official statement, it has reached a settlement with Verizon Wireless. For those not in the know, the agency has been looking into the Big Red’s use of Unique Identifier Headers (or supercookies), which act as permanent trackers of user behavior even after the user has deleted his cookies.
BlackBerry’s Priv smartphone used to be only available at AT&T and T-Mobile. But Verizon Wireless has since announced that it is also selling the BlackBerry device, although at a higher price.
According to market research firm IDC, the growth rate of smartphone shipments in the world is expected to decrease to 5.7 percent in 2016. This is a far cry from the 10.4 percent increase that global smartphone shipments posted in terms of growth rate in the previous year. This is a further sign that worldwide, the market for smartphones are indeed slowing down.
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