Tencent, headed by Pony Ma Huateng, has seen its stock price soar nearly 120 per cent so far this year. The Shenzhen-based company reported third quarter net income rose 69 per cent on year, beating market estimates. Earnings were boosted by its smartphone games unit, including Honour of Kings, the fantasy role-playing “multiplayer online battle …
The next billion cellular connections will come from rural areas in developing markets. However, building the cellular infrastructure in these regions presents radically different challenges from building networks in urban areas: The power grid in these areas is unreliable, if it exists at all. There is no wired telecom infrastructure to run the network backbone …
ZTE has launched a foldable smartphone with dual screen technology that enables the true power of multitasking. Two identical 5.1 inch displays combine to provide a 6.75 inch display. It also has a 20 megapixel camera. ZTE is ranked by independent industry analysts as the fourth-largest supplier of mobile devices in the U.S. overall, and …
In 2017, social/casual gaming global revenue will surpass traditional gaming according to PWc and continue to accelerate away at a much higher growth rate for the remainder of the forecast period. Social/casual gaming will surge at 11.9% CAGR and is expected to reach US$74.3bn by 2021. Total video games revenue in mainland China reached US$15.4 …
Gross domestic product (GDP) in the first three quarters in South China’s Guangdong province reached 6.48 trillion yuan ($977.5 billion), up 7.6 percent year-on-year, while GDP in East China’s Jiangsu province hit 6.26 trillion yuan, up 7.2 percent, reported China Business News Tuesday. The GDP growth rate in Guangdong province was 0.3 percentage points higher …
Many younger technologists (some who were involved in creating likes at Facebook) are weaning themselves off their own products, sending their children to elite Silicon Valley schools where iPhones, iPads and even laptops are banned. They appear to be abiding by a Biggie Smalls lyric from their own youth about the perils of dealing crack …
Drop 25 million iPhones on them and put satellites over them with free wifi. https://t.co/kDmgrXulwH — Jocko Willink (@jockowillink) September 7, 2017 Jocko Willink, a former US Navy SEAL, suggests airdropping 25 million iPhones into North Korea and using satellites to provide free internet and phone access. Yun Sun, an expert on North Korea at …
Nextbigfuture interviewed Rob Topol about 5G. Rob is general manager of Intel’s client and IOT business and systems architecture group. Rob Topol, general manager of Intel’s client and IOT business and systems architecture group. The Internet of Things will soon have 50 billion devices and 200 billion sensors deployed. LTE/4G will not be able to …
Previously the main campaign for parents was to have them tell their children to wait until they are 17 or 20 to have sex, the new campaign is to Wait until 8th [grade] for smartphones. More than 2,000 parents with children in more than 500 schools across the country have signed the pledge at waituntil8th.org …
1. Facebook has reached 2 billion users 2. Google’s YouTube’s 1.5 billion 3. Facebook’s WhatsApp 1.2 billion 4. Facebook Messenger 1.2 billion 5. WeChat had 938 million users in May 2017 (23% growth YoY) 6. QQ 861 million in Q1 2017, a decrease of 2% YoY 7. Instagram 700 million 8. Weibo 340 million 9. …
A NIST-led research team spent more than 18 months collecting data from four different smartphone models to facilitate the development of indoor navigation apps. The data, which includes smartphone sensor readings, radio frequency (RF) signal strengths and GPS fixes, should help developers create better apps to assist users in finding their way inside unfamiliar buildings. …