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The Pokémon Go app is losing its appeal

09/05/201609/02/2016 Julie Campbell

More than 12 million daily players have already given up on the augmented reality game. Approximately fifty days have passed since the Pokémon Go app took the world by storm. The need to “catch ‘em all” carried many children through their summer school breaks in several countries. People are beginning to tire of the augmented reality game app and have started abandoning it. According to reports from Bloomberg, The number of daily active users of the Pokémon Go app has been experiencing a freefall. A report from Ars Technica has…

An iPhone battery pack is often needed to keep up with daily smartphone use

02/15/201602/13/2016 Julie Campbell

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A recent study has revealed that the majority of people check their smartphones an average of 85 times each day. If you’re like most people, you’re continually checking your smartphone for a broad range of different reasons and this can be very draining on the device’s power, helping to explain the rising popularity of the portable iPhone battery pack. In fact, the average person checks their mobile device 85 times per day, from waking up to going to bed at night. The reasons for checking the device can include anything…

E-reader ownership is dwindling with competition from other mobile devices

11/20/201511/18/2015 Jorge Gonzalez

As smartphones gain larger screens and tablets have smaller ones, these e-book reading devices are fading in popularity. According to new data that has been released by Pew Research, the ownership of e-reader mobile devices has reached an all-time low, having cut itself nearly in half when compared to data collected in previous years. Pew’s report on the data showed that this year, only 19 percent of adults currently own a dedicated e-reading device. This is a striking drop from the figure from 2014, at which time 32 percent of…

Canada’s use of mobile technology is growing quickly

10/30/201510/28/2015 Julie Campbell

The country’s regulator has shown that a rising number of Canadians own smartphones and are using them more. According to mobile technology figures that have recently been released by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), two out of every three people in that country now own a smartphone and about half of the people of Canada have a tablet computer. The CRTC’s report showed that Canadians are rapidly taking on some of the latest in consumer computing devices. The three part report focused on the Canadian telecom industry as…

Mobile technology use behind the wheel is declining among teens

10/29/201510/27/2015 Julie Campbell

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A recent study has shown that adolescents aren’t as likely to text while driving as they once were. According to the results of a new study on mobile technology use that was conducted in Canada as a collaboration between Simon Fraser University (with a team of researchers led by professor Simon Pek) and the University of Regina (under professor Sean Tucker), the number of teens who are texting while behind the wheel could be falling. The research was conducted over a period of three years and took two groups of…