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Verizon Checks 5G Box With Virtual Super Bowl Fan Experience
February 02, 2021

It’s the most-watched sporting event of the year: A contest that not only pits enormous athletes against one another on the field, but also lines up some of the country’s biggest marketing muscles in the battle for attention off the field. From its absurd name...

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Video Game Commerce Startup Xsolla Introduces Mobile Solution
January 26, 2021

Video game commerce company Xsolla has introduced a mobile game commerce solution designed to manage mobile games beyond the app stores. “Game developers of all sizes face many challenges working within the current app store business model — from discoverability and limited player data to...

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Five Fast Facts On The Digital Shift, By The Numbers
January 25, 2021

The fact that the world is a very different place than it was a little under a year ago isn’t likely to be called into question by anyone currently reading this in pajama pants as they work from home. But quantifying that change can be...

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India’s Airtel Closes Amazon Deal To Launch Mobile-Only Video Plan
January 13, 2021

Airtel, India’s largest telecom service provider, has teamed up with Amazon to launch a mobile-only video entertainment platform. Prime Video Mobile Edition is a single-user subscription service. India is the first country offering Amazon Prime to extend the mobile-only package, Airtel said in a press...

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Smartphone Shipments In China Fell 20 Pct In 2020
January 11, 2021

Shipments of smartphones in China tumbled 20 percent in 2020 as Chinese consumers continued to delay upgrading their phones. The number of devices shipped domestically fell to 296 million in 2020, from 372 million in 2019, according to Reuters, which cited newly released Chinese government...

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Virtual CES Doubles Down on 5G
January 11, 2021

If it feels like the rollout of 5G – or 5th generation – super high-speed wireless service has been in the works forever, you’re probably right, given that it was officially launched in 2019. While the four major cell phone service companies are still racing...

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Data: 9 Out Of 10 Christmas Activations Were Older Model iPhones
December 29, 2020

iPhones dominated the Christmas Day market for new phone activations, according to a report from Cult of Mac. The Apple favorites represented nine out of 10 handset activations, with the very last on the list being the lone Android, the report said, citing market analysts....

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5G Adoption Set To Accelerate Next Year
December 23, 2020

It’s been a wild ride in 2020, and something of a strange one for 5G, which was the subject of an early conspiracy that blamed the technology for the global COVID-19 outbreak. The rumor didn’t turn out to have much of a shelf life and...

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Reliance Says It Will Roll Out 5G In Late 2021
December 08, 2020

Reliance Jio Infocomm will debut 5G high-speed internet in India starting in the second half of 2021, a report from LiveMint.com says, quoting Chairman Mukesh Ambani. Ambani, speaking at the fourth edition of the India Mobile Congress, said the solution for fifth-generation wireless service would...