Mobile Commerce Trends

Voice actors speak out against the threat of AI technology

06/26/202306/23/2023 Jesse Collins

AI technology - Voice acting recording studio

Dubbing artists from around the world are acting to stop unregulated human voice generation. Voice actors from around the world are coming together and speaking up against the unregulated use of AI technology to generate and clone human voices. These artists are concerned that this use of artificial intelligence will threaten their work and livelihoods. “We’re fighting a very big monster,” said Mexican voice actor Mario Filio, who has done voiceover dubbing for Will Smith, for King Julien, the party-focused lemur in the “Madagascar” movie, and who voices Obi-Wan Kenobi…

4 out of 5 millennials pay bills using mobile wallets

06/23/202306/22/2023 Stephanie Beck

Mobile wallets - Payment Made - Thank You

While many people have already been paying their bills online, this generation is looking to phones. As bills have become mainly digital, millennials in particular are looking to their phones to make their payments and are choosing mobile wallets as their preferred payment method. According to new research, a massive 80 percent of millennials prefer this bill payment method. The research was conducted by PYMNTS. What it found was that mobile wallets have been driving the trend toward bill payments online, particularly on phones. It also found that among people…

Apple doesn’t like the term artificial intelligence, though it does love machine learning

06/12/202306/09/2023 Jesse Woods

At this year’s WWDC, the company avoided AI as a subject at all, though did reference machine learning. Based on technology trends already taking off at an explosive rate, it was natural to think that artificial intelligence would be a major topic of focus at the WWDC, but that was not exactly the case. Presenters were not at all inclined to discuss AI, though “machine learning” did have its mentions. At no point during the Apple WWDC did presenters bring up artificial intelligence, which appeared to be the exact opposite…

WhatsApp opens limited text message editing window for users

05/26/202305/25/2023 Stephanie Beck

Text message editing - Person using WhatsApp app

The popular messaging app is providing users with a 15-minute window in which to correct what they send. WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature in the popular messaging app that allows text message editing to become possible within the first 15 minutes after a message has been sent. For anyone who would like to make immediate corrections to a message, this is a welcome addition. It’s exceptionally commonplace to want to take back an unpleasant wording, correct a misspelling or typo, or otherwise correct details sent to friends, family,…

TikTok social media platform value now 11 percent higher than Facebook

05/12/202305/11/2023 Stephanie Beck

Social Media Platform - TikTok Value Increase

The short video app is also valued at 65 percent higher than Instagram according to a new report. TikTok has now overtaken Facebook as a considerably more valuable social media platform, as a new report from Business2community.com has indicated that the former now has a value 11 percent greater than the latter. This makes TikTok the most valuable brand in its category, based on the statistics in the new report. The analysis was based on data from Q1 this year, naming TikTok the most valuable social media platform in the…