Qualcomm, the largest maker of smartphone chips, is prepping for 5G with the launch of a new chip. The offering is designed to work with the company’s new Snapdragon X55 5G modem, which will start to appear in devices later on this year. The new system...
India’s government is pressuring Facebook for access to WhatsApp’s encrypted messages. Last year, rumors and fake videos spread on WhatsApp, leading to about two dozen lynchings. Although Facebook has since limited the number of times a message can be forwarded, the government doesn’t believe it’s enough...
India’s mobile phone market saw shipments increase 11 percent last year, with smartphone shipments growing 10 percent. According to market research firm Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service, the research firm said India was the fastest growing smartphone market in 2018 with an annual growth rate of...
Smartphone sales may be slowing, but the apps that consumers like to download and use on those phones are getting plenty of attention — quite literally. Consumers spend, on average, three hours of their day (or a month and a half of their year) using...
Consumers aren’t just using financial apps to check on their last five transactions or send and receive payments. They are increasingly turning to their smartphones for handling a host of complex tasks — such as imposing spending controls on their children, keeping tabs on their...
Samsung will take on rival Xiaomi in India with the launch of an affordable smartphone series in the country before it is released globally later on in the year. Data shows that Samsung’s market share in India has fallen behind China’s Xiaomi in two of the...
South Korea is taking an early lead in deployment of 5G, with three of the country’s telecoms recently deploying the service. That could give the country an edge when it comes to showcasing payment and commerce uses of the mobile network technology — and provide the...
Samsung has announced that it will offer iTunes Movies and TV Shows and Apple AirPlay 2 support on all 2019 Samsung Smart TV models beginning this spring, while support on 2018 Samsung Smart TVs will launch through a firmware update. In addition, a new iTunes...
The Big Issue Foundation is urging U.K. banks — as well as the country’s financial regulator — to make it easier for its homeless vendors to take contactless payments. In order to become a vendor of the Foundation’s namesake magazine, a person must be homeless,...
