Isolation from friends and other factors during the pandemic contributed to a significant increase in screen use by tweens and teens from pre-pandemic levels. Common Sense Media — a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of all kids and families — in March released a detailed report showing that screen use in 2021 increased…
No-code platforms are a key tool for organizations to better secure their own mobile apps. Mobile software is frighteningly insecure, warns Tom Tovar, CEO and co-creator of Appdome. This is not a tenable situation for mobile app publishers. The company’s no-code software removes the costly and time-consuming in-house process of building in security and fraud…
Apple refreshed its iPhone SE and iPad Air models and introduced a new desktop at an online event Tuesday. The new iPhone SE, which will sell for US$429, sports a new processor, the A15 chip, and supports 5G. The iPad Air, priced at $599, also received a processor upgrade to Apple’s M1 processor and will…
Although Apple is expected to launch a mixed reality product sometime this year, don’t expect it to lead its users into the metaverse, according to a prominent watcher of the company. The watcher, Mark Gurman, who writes the Power On newsletter for Bloomberg, wrote in the latest edition of the publication that the metaverse will…
The holiday shopping season was very good for Apple’s wearables business, according to a leading analyst of the company’s operations. Ming-Chi Kuo of TFI Asset Management reported over the weekend that Apple sold 90 million AirPods during the final quarter of 2021, including 27 million of the latest version of the earbuds released in September….
A gang of big banks, including Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase, are reportedly preparing to launch a digital wallet product to compete with those offered by tech heavyweights Apple, Google, and PayPal. The bank wallet — which is being developed by Early Warning Services (EWS), a bank-owned enterprise that operates the money…
With today’s economic environment driving consumers into the money-saving mode, e-commerce retailers must double down on targeted communications to ensure their mobile content is as personalized as possible without underestimating the power of a single inappropriate or misaligned message. Mobile engagement platform Vibes and Industry Dive surveyed a broad range of 1,001 mobile-centric consumers in…
Online gambling is at an all-time high in accessibility and popularity. But many betting app developers are rolling the dice blindly without addressing users’ customer experience (CX) concerns. More states in the U.S. are legalizing sports betting with legislation pending in many others. Major sports leagues such as the NFL and the PGA Tour are…
In this day and age when we are all used to working online with various devices, it is a big plus to have a digital tool to store and present identification and other documents. The digital wallet has emerged as an app that allows for scanning physical cards and storing payment and other personal information…
