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Study: UAE kids most tech-addicted

Parents have been complaining about their children spending too much time in front of screens since the invention of television, and since the rise of technology, fewer youngsters are spending time outside, favouring their tech devices in their bedrooms, notes online contact lens retailer Lenstore. With excessive screen time leaving us exposed to a number […]

November 5, 2021

NewsPlayer+ the one-stop-app for COP26 TV news coverage

With world leaders arriving in Glasgow this weekend, NewsPlayer+ will provide access to global perspectives and diverse views on COP26 and climate change. NewsPlayer+ uniquely brings 28 live news channels from every continent together in one official streaming service, including Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, CNBC Europe, CGTN (China), Euronews, RT (Russia) and Sky News International; as […]

October 29, 2021

Apple introduces Apple Music Voice Plan

Apple has announced the Apple Music Voice Plan, a new subscription tier for Apple Music designed around the power of AI assistant Siri. The Apple Music Voice Plan offers subscribers access to the service’s catalogue of 90 million songs; tens of thousands of playlists, including hundreds of brand new mood and activity playlists, personalised mixes, […]

October 19, 2021

Kapang adds WildEarth and more

View TV Group has signed a channel carriage deal on their Kapang CTV platform for broadcast in North America and the UK with the premier African safari themed channel WildEarth. “WildEarth is such an amazing idea. To have the ability to be in the centre of an African safari with the sights, sounds and expert […]

October 13, 2021

Report: Denmark has best mobile experience in the world

Denmark leads the way in Tutela’s 2021 Global Mobile Experience Report, with the highest Excellent Consistent Quality at 86.16 per cent. Tutela’s Excellent Consistent Quality metric represents how often connections are good enough for demanding applications like 1080p video streaming, HD group video calling and real time mobile gaming. At an operator level, TDC Denmark […]

October 11, 2021

Apple TV+ has ‘less than 20m subs’

CNBC has reported that in the course contract negotiations between the major Hollywood unions for backstage crews, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) revealed that, as recently as July, Apple claimed it had less than 20 million subscribers to its Apple TV_ streaming service in North America. Since launching its subscription streaming service […]

September 27, 2021

Research: How many TikTok views needed to make a living?

The emergence of TikTok has rapidly revolutionised the world of social media. Social media fanatics certainly see the platform’s huge appeal and are already considering the possibilities of becoming full-time TikTokers. Financial institute Cashfloat has utilised the latest analytics data from LickD to establish how many TikTok views citizens from across 44 European countries would […]

September 27, 2021

Survey: 65% underestimate daily phone usage

To measure people’s awareness of their phone use, gaming site Solitaired recently surveyed 667 iPhone users, asking them to guess how much time they spend on their phones, then had them send documentation of their actual usage data, courtesy of their iOS Screen Time dashboards. On average, respondents guessed they spend 25 hours and 54 […]

September 21, 2021

APAC: Mobile marketing proves resilient in pandemic

After a year when marketing budgets have been significantly impacted by the global pandemic, mobile has proved to be one of the most resilient media. Marketers in APAC, are incorporating a mobile-first approach driven by increased opportunities to reach consumers by social and m-commerce, driving up digital advertising budgets in the region to $120 billion […]

September 16, 2021

Rumours cool on iPhone satellite connectivity

The news that the next (Ver 13) iPhone will have satellite connectivity swept the world this past few days. However, the news may be a little premature. The misunderstanding has possibly come about because the new iPhone 13 will be able to access 4G and 5G but also another radio band which was originally allocated […]

September 1, 2021By Chris Forrester