After a decade of extreme growth, the mobile market slowed to a crawl last year, according to new industry figures. The total number of connected devices rose just one percent to 400.2 million, the slowest rate of increase on record, while service revenue slipped five percent to $179 billion, the second year in a row …
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Most of the time, when we’re finished using the things we buy, it’s our responsibility to dispose of them in the correct manner. However, for consumers within the EU as well as 25 states in the U.S., there happens to be one notable exception to this rule-of-thumb guideline: electronic waste. When e-waste is involved, manufacturers …
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Provided is a weekly snapshot of the recent data security, electronic waste, and mobile technology news that HOBI’s blog reported on during the week 7/09-7/13. Your smartphone may be spying on you, just not how you might suspect At some point, you’ve probably wondered if your smartphone has been listening in on your calls or …
The age of mobile technology is truly amazing. We can move from pillar to post as much as we please and still stay connected. However, we’re not completely mobile because we’re still chained to the nearest outlet with our device’s chargers while we keep a constant eye on the pesky little battery gauge. Yet, while …
Since last year’s introduction of the ‘thousand dollar iPhone,’ we’ve heard various accounts that consumers are looking for cheaper handset options. Whether it’s opting for refurbished and used devices or simply keeping their current smartphones for a longer period of time before upgrading, headlines all over are reporting that consumers are looking into all other …
Sales data indicates cheaper handsets aren’t really what consumers want Read More »
Today’s cultural climate insists that we should have a circular economy where everything is recycled. That’s why we see so many campaigns urging us to reduce, reuse, and recycle. However, there are some that believe that this is an error in thinking. Some, like Tim Worstall, a Senior Fellow at Adam Smith Institute, believe that …
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In this digitally connected age, we’re probably all a little paranoid that our tech devices are spying on us. Technology is so integrated into our daily lives that if we were being spied on, so much would be at risk. From our identities to our web history to our private conversations, our devices hold all …
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Provided is a weekly snapshot of the recent IoT, recycling, and data security news that HOBI’s blog reported on during the week 7/02-7/06. Five Reasons Why IoT Needs Its Own Connection Without question, the age of the Internet of Things (IoT) has shaken up quite a bit in the electronics market – both at the …
In a day and age where half of our daily activities are spent on the world wide web, leaving behind virtual footprints, the risk of our personal information being compromised is a constant worry. From our login information to our emails, everything is at risk of being intercepted by malicious users. But there are various …
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It seems that no matter how much effort is put into recycling and creating recycling awareness, tons upon tons of plastics still find their ways to landfills and the ocean. Even before China announced last year that the country no longer wanted to be the “world’s garbage dump,” roughly 91 percent of potentially recyclable plastics …