Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices…
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices…
Further to the news yesterday of Microsoft’s appointment to the board of the LoRa Alliance, the rest of the LoRaWAN ecosystem continues to move at a decent clip, it appears. Two of the leading lights in the non-cellular IoT firmament, in the form of France-based LoRaWAN gateway maker Kerlink and US-based LoRaWAN infrastructure builder Senet,…
All things 5G are on the rise, it seems, and as 5G becomes more commercially available to consumers and enterprises, there will be many ripple effects. New data from Allied Market Research suggests the global small cell 5G network market will generate $19.62 billion by 2030, up from $858 million in 2020. 5G will impact…
Apple is rarely one for going with the flow. While competitors may try and go in one direction, Apple typically prefers to do its own thing. That’s especially true where charging is concerned, sticking with proprietary connections like Lightning. Except Apple has been phasing out Lightning in lots of other places, adopting USB-C on MacBooks…
Considering that we do practically everything on the internet today, online security and privacy are more important now than ever before. A virtual private network is perhaps the cheapest and simplest way to protect yourself and your loved ones. The good news is that these services are very user-friendly, so even if you’re not all…
Finnish IoT firm Haltian has added new features to its Empathic Building digital twin platform that are designed to improve workplace safety in the COVID-19 era. Haltian acquired Empathic Building from TietoEVRY last year. At the time of the acquisition, Empathic Building Head and Founder Tomi Teikko said: “Haltian’s IoT and data collection solutions will…
Google has abused the dominant position of Android in India to illegally hurt competitors in the world’s second largest internet market, a two-year antitrust probe by the nation’s watchdog has found. The Android-maker reduced device manufacturing firms’ ability and incentive to develop — and sell — devices running alternative versions of Android (more popularly known…
Google has abused the dominant position of Android in India to illegally hurt competitors in the world’s second largest internet market, a two-year antitrust probe by the nation’s watchdog has found. The Android-maker reduced device manufacturing firms’ ability and incentive to develop — and sell — devices running alternative versions of Android (more popularly known…
Google has abused the dominant position of Android in India to illegally hurt competitors in the world’s second largest internet market, a two-year antitrust probe by the nation’s watchdog has found. The Android-maker reduced device manufacturing firms’ ability and incentive to develop — and sell — devices running alternative versions of Android (more popularly known…
