Mobile payments interest about 50 percent of consumers

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New Gartner research shows that about half of all consumers will be interested in the transactions by 2018. Gartner Inc. has now released data that indicates that by the year 2018, approximately 50 percent of consumers within mature markets will be interested in using their smartphones or wearable technology devices in order to complete mobile payments when purchasing products and services. Consumers living in countries such as Japan, the United States, Canada and those in Western Europe are showing interest. According to Gartner, mobile payments technology is starting to gain…

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European refugee crisis mobile app launched by Google

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The application is meant to assist the migrants and refugees leaving war-torn countries. As the refugee crisis continues with migrants making their way into Europe from northern Africa and the Middle East, Google is hoping that a mobile app will help to ease the situation for those refugees. The crisis is greater than it has been in 60 years, as 11 million migrants and refugees try to find safe new lives. The mobile app has been created for migrants, a large majority of whom have smartphones so that they will…

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Is the Facebook mobile app draining iPhone batteries?

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Users have been complaining that the application is running their devices out of power. Following complaints that the Facebook mobile app is rapidly consuming the power from iPhone, the social network says that it is working on repairing the issues that are behind the problem. That said, Facebook is denying that it is the continual location tracking that is behind the battery drain. The problem that iPhone users have been having with the mobile app is that it not only consumes a lot of battery when the application is open,…

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New mobile app delivers alcohol right to your door

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A new application has expanded out of New York and into Toronto Canada for booze deliveries. A mobile app based in New York has now taken a look at a market that has been virtually untapped in Canada and has chosen to make its mark within that sector: alcoholic beverage delivery. The mobile application is called Thirstie and it provides home delivery of alcohol similar to pizza delivery. The company is starting its introduction of the mobile app in the Canadian space by stepping into Toronto and Ottawa, two cities…

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iPhone 6S bug in iOS 9 throws off augmented reality performance

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A reported glitch in the operating system’s compass/gyroscope is impacting AR apps. A potential bug has been discovered in the most recent release of the Apple operating system, iOS 9, which seems to be affecting certain mobile apps that run on the brand new iPhone 6S, such as those that are based on augmented reality, as well as others that use compass and gyroscope data. This has had an impact on some of the central elements of these mobile apps and has made several features unusable. A number of different…

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