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A New Smartphone Operating System That Puts Privacy First

A Swiss-based start-up is developing an operating system that aims to be a more secure alternative to Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. Trust in the big smartphone operating systems has been increasingly eroded in recent years due to gaps in data protection resulting in several major court decisions. The Swiss start-up Apostrophy AG wants to address this issue and announced at the World Economic Forum 2023 last week in Davos that it will offer a new operating system with significantly better data protection. The highlight of the new system: the apps installed on the operating system are segregated from each other and,…
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How BBVA Spain Uses Google Maps Platform To Build Transparency Around Spending

Editor’s note: Today’s post comes from Raul Navarrete, Head of Mobile Channel and Smart Assistants, BBVA Spain. BBVA Spain uses Google Maps Platform to create a true culture of trust for its customers.The rise of mobile technology has completely changed the way we pay for goods and services. Back in 2019, just 4.4% of our customers opted for mobile payments, a figure that has now risen to 23%. That’s not just due to technological advances: the COVID-19 pandemic also played a big role in showing people of all generations, not just millennials and Generation Z, the benefits of online payments.Here…
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How To Detect If Someone’s Stealing Your WiFi

Everywhere you go these days, data is whizzing through the airwaves. While we use 4G and 5G data on our smartphones as we’re driving or walking, WiFi still dominates in the home. And in coffee shops. And libraries. And airports. Thanks to the ubiquity of wireless routers and hotspots, just about any plain old wired internet connection — faster and cheaper and without the limiting bandwidth caps of cellular data — can be turned into a convenient WiFi zone. Whether we install them ourselves or get them from our internet providers, most of us have WiFi routers in our homes. That can cause a couple of problems: One,…
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Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform: Trends And Investment Areas

The past year has been eventful for a lot of reasons. At Microsoft, we’ve expanded our partnerships, including Volkswagen, LG Electronics, Faurecia, TomTom, and more, and taken the wraps off new thinking such as at CES, where we recently demonstrated our approach to in-vehicle compute and software architecture. Looking ahead, areas that were once nominally related now come into sharper focus as the supporting technologies are deployed and the various industry verticals mature. The welcoming of a new year is a good time to pause and take in what is happening in our industry and in related ones with an aim…
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Google I/O 2019 | Build Fast and Smooth Web Apps from Feature Phone to Desktop

Google I/O 2019 | Build Fast and Smooth Web Apps from Feature Phone to Desktop Feature phones with tiny screen and no touch interface are coming “back” to the market. No matter how “responsive design” it is, most web applications are hard to use in those phones. Taking learnings from Japanese mobile web development in early 2000s, we are building web app that works fast and smooth on low powered feature phone which can also scale up to desktop application gracefully. Come see UX considerations and performance tips to turn your web app to the next level.   Speaker: Mariko…
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Google I/O 2019 | What’s New In Firebase

Google I/O 2019 | What’s New In Firebase Firebase is Google’s mobile development platform for Android, iOS, and the web. In this session, you’ll learn recent changes to Firebase that are specifically targeted towards building large-scale applications with complex development teams. By the end of this session, you’ll see how you can take advantage of the power of Firebase in your app right now.   Speakers: Francis Ma, Derek Phillips, Alex Singer, Rachel Myers Session ID: T8046B
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