Android Market Share Tops Out While Google Reasserts Control
The Android mobile operating system ran 84% of smartphones shipped globally in the third quarter, according to research firm Strategy Analytics, …
FCC drafting new 911 rules to prevent more service outages
The Federal Communications Commission is trying to update the aging American 911 network for an era of cellphones and fiber networks. On a call today, senior FCC officials announced that Chairman Tom Wheeler was circulating draft rules that would improve reliability, expand requirements for service providers, and make it clearer who is responsible when 911 fails.
The emergency phone system is increasingly facing problems as wireline networks age and VoIP and wireless phone use increases. It’s had frequent failures, including a major „sunny day“ outage (in which no outside factors were responsible) in April 2014 that affected 11 million people. The FCC cites at least three other cases from this year: a 20-hour service outage across the…
Movie theaters ban Google Glass and other camera-toting wearables
Many individual American movie theaters are already hostile to guests who use wearables like Google Glass, and they’ve now made that opposition official on a national level. Both the Motion Picture Association of America and the National Association…
Microsoft Band: cross platform, yet Better Together with Windows Phone (and Cortana)
Microsoft Health is a cloud-based service that helps you live healthier by providing actionable insights based on data gathered from the fitness devices …
‚OK Google‘ voice commands bound for even more third-party apps
Google wants even third-party Android apps to be able to do searches using „Ok, Google“ voice commands, so it’s now making it easier for developers to integrate the feature. Now, all devs have to do is add a few lines of code to their…