A relatively new wireless carrier called LinkUp Mobile has quietly grown to 30,000 subscribers in just four months by taking an unusual approach to selling phone service. Instead of focusing solely on online sales or traditional wireless stores, the company is putting complete phone packages in convenience stores and gas stations across the country. According to BestMVNO, LinkUp Mobile's parent company SurgePays reported that monthly customer sign-ups more than doubled between April and July... Read more →
Almost every wireless carrier in the United States is trying to make changes to their respective wireless services in order to provide the most attractive smartphone deals possible for their customers. Now US Cellular is joining in on the fun. The fifth biggest wireless carrier in America has just revealed that it is overhauling the pricing of its... Read more →
More and more people now are paying for the fries they bought at McDonald’s using their smartphones. Soon, people will be doing it at gas pumps everywhere. Just recently, Visa and Chevron revealed an initiative to bring some of the first gas pumps enabled with mobile payment technology to the state of California. Beginning in autumn of this year,... Read more →
November 18th of this year. This is the deadline date that Russian authorities have given Google to stop preinstalling its own mobile apps on its Android mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets. Apparently, Google has been installing its app on all mobile devices in Russia that are powered by its Android OS, effectively abusing its... Read more →
During a press conference held in the city of New York, Microsoft officially introduced a couple of new flagship devices, the Lumia 950 and the Lumia 950 XL, which will be made exclusively available from AT&T in the United States. As its name implies, the Lumia 950 XL is a phablet variant of the Lumia 950. Apart from unveiling two new flagship... Read more →
It is apparently another disappointing quarter for HTC. The Taiwanese phone maker reported a second net loss for the 2015. The company had managed to post a small profit during the first quarter of this year, but a slow performance in terms of sales have immensely contributed to a loss amounting to $138 million during the third quarter. It is a... Read more →
Palo Alto Networks, a cybersecurity firm has detected a new type of malware that is affecting iOS devices mostly those owned by mobile users based in China and Taiwan. Named YiSpecter, the malware infects iOS run handsets by abusing private application programming interfaces (APIs). According to Palo Alto Networks, YiSpecter is the first malware... Read more →
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