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Mobile Internet: Smartphones for Everyone – The 2 billion who earn less than $5.00 a day will remain offline for decades – Research and Markets

by Isaac Oburu

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Mobile Internet: Smartphones for Everyone?” report to their offering. With the smartphone market now approaching saturation in all developed internet economies attention is now turning …

Tags:internet| Smartphone Market

Google Brings Web to VR

by Tom Allen

The latest builds of Google Chrome Beta and Google Chrome Dev on Android show that Google is working to bring virtual reality to the web. Chrome Beta now contains a WebVR setting, which enables …

ZTE Becomes Major Member of NB-IoT Forum to Help Operators Enter a Market of 100 Billion Connected Devices

by Isaac Oburu

ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, today announced that it officially joined the GSMA NB-IoT (Narrow Band-IoT) Forum as a major member, at …

Tags:internet| Internet of Things IOT| Telecomms| ZTE

Qualcomm Boasts of UltraHD Download Speeds

by Tom Allen

A new LTE modem chip from Qualcomm enables much faster internet speeds for smartphones: fast enough that a 100GB UltraHD film could be downloaded in less than 15 minutes (network-dependent). The Snapdragon X16 enables …

Mobile Internet Users to Top 2 Billion Worldwide in 2016, According to IDC

by Isaac Oburu

The International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that 3.2 billion people, or 44% of the world’s population, will have access to the Internet in 2016. Of this number, more than 2 billion will be using …

Tags:IDC| internet

Internet Speeds Rise for 4k Readiness

by Tom Allen

According to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report, 15% of global IP addresses are now classified as ‘4k-ready’ (defined as 15Mbps speeds or higher) – almost triple that of the 5.3% in Q2. …

DTG Clears 4k Confusion

by Tom Allen

The UK’s Digital Television Group (DTG) has launched a new website called UHDReady.co.uk, with the aim of helping retailers to understand and sell the benefits of UltraHD technology. Users can look up TVs by …

And Finally… – Vol 22 No 40

by Tom Allen

For a company whose entire business structure, for many years, was solely online, you would think that Google would be able to protect its domain name. Well, you would think wrong: this week Sanmay …

Exhaustion of North America’s IPv4 Addresses Underscores Need for Continued CE Industry Action on IPv6

by Tom Allen

Citing yesterday’s long-expected announcement that the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) IPv4 Internet address pool has finally been exhausted, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today emphasized the need for consumer technology companies to …

Tags:CTA (was CEA)| internet

Half of US Internet Homes Own a Connected TV Device

by Tom Allen

The CE industry reached a milestone in the second quarter with half of U.S. Internet homes now owning a Connected TV device. This includes connected TVs, video game consoles, streaming media players, and Blu-ray …

Tags:internet| NPD| Stream TV

Mobiles Dramatically Raise Online Time

by Tom Allen

Data from the Pew Research Centre shows that 24% of teenagers say that they are online ‘almost constantly’, thanks to the continuous connectivity provided by smartphones and other devices. 56% say that they use …

Tags:internet| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 16