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Postmates, a company that specializes in on-demand delivery services, has inked an agreement with Starbucks to deliver the US coffee giant's beverages to customers who ordered through the Starbucks mobile app. Soon, with just a tap on your mobile device, you can now have your coffee delivered right to your home or office.
Last year, Apple bought Beats Music to the tune of $3 billion. But since completing its acquisition, the company has been relatively quiet about its plans for the Beats Music streaming service.
Mobile payment systems are gaining traction today, especially with the high profile release of Apple Pay, the near field communications (NFC) based system that Apple developed and released late last year. Since then, we have seen lots of retailers, banking institutions, credit card companies, and soon, even vending machines, gas pumps, and federal agencies support Apple Pay. The good thing about the launch of Apple Pay is that is also encouraged consumers to pay attention to mobile payment systems in general, including those that existed way before Apple introduced its own system.
China, particularly its urban areas, make up the biggest smartphone market in the world today. And it appears that Apple has managed to capture a quarter of all smartphone sales in that market.
According to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, for the period spanning November 2014 to January 2015, Apple's market share in urban China is 25.4 percent. For the record, that is the biggest market share that the company has ever scored in that country. Last year, Apple only had a 17.4 market share in the same three-month period.
It appears that BlackBerry is back to making touchscreen smartphones again. It recently introduced the Leap, a touchscreen device that the company hopes will attract users, especially those who are startup founders or those that belong to the young demographic.
Over the last few weeks, details of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S6 model have been leaked to the public. Based on the leaked information, the new S6 model is believed to feature minimal bloatware, a metallic/glass chassis, and even a Sony IMX240 camera sensor. There are even some that believe a curved-screen variant, called the Galaxy S6 Edge, will be released.
If an iPhone is stolen and the Find My Phone feature has been deactivated, the Activation Lock will stop that device from being re-used by another Apple account. That is how the Activation Lock feature works, and it appears that it is quite effective in curbing iPhone theft cases.
Google has revealed that Project Ara will begin consumer trials in Puerto Rico this year. The overall purpose of the project is to create a freely modular phone in which users get to decide what hardware components to incorporate in its basic skeletal phone body.
Project Ara first came into the public eye last year. Since then, rumors have began circulating as to when the project will finally take off. But it never really did until today when Google made an official announcement.
It seems that everyone is into phablets nowadays. Chinese phone maker ZTE has just announced its own phablet offering, the Grand X Max+. But whereas Apple, Samsung, and Google are offering phablets with premium price tags, ZTE is positioning its product with a distinct cost effective advantage.
We have only been using smartphones heavily for about a decade and a half now, but it appears that the way we interact with our mobile devices is having an influence on how ours brains now function. Well, at least according to researchers from the Institute of Neuroinformatics of the University of Zurich anyway.
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