Mobile Minutes: Data use doubles; Google?s bot challenge; Fitbit?s inaccuracies; VR hype
Americans more than double their mobile data use in a year
U.S. mobile customers more than doubled their data usage
last year while carrier revenue inched up, according to the CTIA wireless
industry trade group's annual survey released Monday.
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Bots bring bigger challenge to Google?s ad model than phones
did
The smartphone boom upended Google?s advertising profit
engine and it took years for the Internet giant to adjust to the new mobile
world. The next wave of computing will be an even bigger challenge.
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Study shows Fitbit trackers highly inaccurate
A class action lawsuit against Fitbit may have grown teeth
following the release of a new study which claims the company's popular heart
rate trackers are "highly inaccurate.?
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Why the virtual-reality hype is about to come crashing down
Makers of virtual-reality headsets think 2016 will be the
year of VR. The experience ?is radically different than any computing
experience you?ve had before,? says Marc Metis, a vice president at HTC Corp.,
maker of the Vive headset.
Read more on The Wall Street Journal