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Sensor Tower: Pokémon Home sees 1.3 million downloads on Android and iOS in first week

February 20, 2020
Pokémon Home has earned 1.3 million downloads on Android and iOS in its first week of availability, according to market analyst Sensor Tower. Home launched on February 12. The app lets users store and transfer Pokémon to different games. At launch, Home doesn’t support Pokémon Go, which would be a big driver for mobile downloads. Home is also available on Switch, but we do not know how many…
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5G will transform live experiences, claims O2: no queues and instant video

February 20, 2020
The 5G hype continues, with a new report claiming that the faster mobile data service will transform live experiences like music concerts… The report commissioned by concert venue O2 says that 5G-enabled services have the potential to shorten or eliminate queues for merchandise and drinks. Innovations such as AR-assisted shopping will mean shorter queues when purchasing merchandise by…
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Medal.tv launches data platform for PC and Android apps

February 20, 2020
Medal.tv announced today that it is launching Medal Trends, an analytics platform that collects data from its PC and Android apps. Medal.tv records and shares short clips from people’s games, making it easier to show off highlights and other moments. Medal Trends will use…
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Samsung sends weird ‘Find my Mobile 1’ notification to Galaxy users worldwide

February 20, 2020
Overnight, Samsung users around the globe noticed a strange “1” notification on their devices that seemingly had no cause. However, there’s nothing to worry about, it was just a mistake on Samsung’s end. Reports from users over the past 12 hours show that quite a lot of people got this strange notification overnight, originating from the “Find my Mobile” app. This notification only…
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Some 23 iOS file-conversion apps used by 3M people fail to encrypt documents

February 20, 2020
Cybersecurity company Wandera found that some 23 iOS file-conversion apps used by three million people fail to use encryption, potentially putting the documents at risk. All the apps in question were created by a single developer, Cometdocs, but Wandera says that the discovery raises a broader security issue… Cometdocs makes apps that convert documents between different file formats. For…
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