mobile

The UK now prefers using phones to get online over laptops

Posted in Business on 6th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

It marks a significant shift. Just last year 22% named their phone as their most important means of getting online, with a solid 40% naming their laptop.

Sri Lanka is the first country to sign up for Google Loon

Posted in Business on 1st Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

Each balloon could cover about 5,000 square km with 3G access and with a little over a dozen the entire country could be covered.

Nearly half of Facebooks users only access the service on mobile

Posted in Business on 30th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

Today Facebook revealed that it now has more than 1.49 billion monthly active users, 655 million of whom only access Facebook via a mobile device.

Researchers Test Smartphones for Earthquake Warning

Posted in Software on 27th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

Crowdsourcing smartphone data could provide valuable advance notice for people in quake zones.

In 2015 there are more than 7 billion mobile cellular subscriptions

Posted in Hardware on 23rd Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

Globally, there are 3.2 billion people are using the Internet of which 2 billion are from developing countries.