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NBA Delivers 5G Smartphone Live Game Broadcast (SportsPro)

The National Basketball Association has used its annual Summer League to test a world-first alternative broadcast provided entirely by smartphone cameras using 5G mobile technology... More

40 Years Ago Sony’s Walkman Changed the Way We Listened to Music (CNET)

The Sony Walkman is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The now-famous gadget was introduced with little fanfare in the summer of 1979, but it didn't take long before the whole world... More

What Can 5G Deliver Beyond High-Speed Internet? (TechWire Asia)

The next generation of mobile connectivity, 5G, promises blazing internet speeds and unprecedented network bandwidth. And accordingly, the technology often is the topic of conversa... More

How Long is an Episode? For Mobile Shows, It Can be 5 Minutes (Media Post)

The majority of ad video views on mobile apps — 54% — are with video clips, zero to five minutes in duration. What about live-content format composition ad views? That’s at... More

Report: 5G Smartphones Will Surpass 4G Ones by 2023 (TechRepublic)

5G-enabled smart devices will reach 800 million units in 2023, occupying 51% of all smartphone shipments, according to a new report. This means 5G smartphones will outnumber 4G sma... More

WatchESPN App is Officially Dead (Variety)

RIP, WatchESPN. ESPN has officially killed off WatchESPN, first launched in April 2011 to provide pay-TV customers authenticated access to live games, in a move to simplify its app... More

Using Artificial Intelligence to Take the Pain (and Cost) Out of Image Search, Discovery (Adobe Blog)

Anyone who creates digital media for publication understands the challenges of generating photos, videos, illustrations, and vector graphics from scratch. Doing so gives you creati... More

Smartphone Users are Upgrading Less Frequently — Will 5G Help? (TechCrunch)

A new study out of NPD confirms what we already know about the state of the smartphone in 2019. People just aren’t upgrading as frequently. You can see the ramifications of this ... More

Study Shows Rise in Podcast Listening By Millennials, the Biggest Audio Generation (Billboard)

Audio listening in the U.S. is at an all-time high, driven by millennials and Gen Z music fans, who listen to more content than all others -- more types, more often and from more s... More

Dish is Near a $6B Deal for T-Mobile, Sprint Assets (Bloomberg)

Dish could announce a deal as soon as this week for assets including wireless spectrum and Sprint’s Boost Mobile brand, said the people, who asked to not be identified because th... More

Analyst: Apple Will Release Two iPhones With 5G in 2020 (CNBC)

TF International Securities analyst Ming Chi Kuo said in a note on Monday that Apple’s first 5G iPhones will launch in 2020 using modems provided by Qualcomm. The note reiterates... More

Netflix Planning a Mobile Game Based on the ‘Stranger Things’ Universe for 2020 (CNBC)

The mobile game will allow users to explore the show’s fictional realm, “The Upside Down,” which is hidden around them in their daily travels. It will use GPS to deliver expe... More

Consumers Will Spend 800 Hours on Mobile Internet in 2019 (TVB Europe)

The average person will spend 800 hours on the internet on their phone this year, a new report has found. The study explains: “That’s equivalent to 33 days without sleep or pau... More

EY, Wire Collaborate for On-Premise End-to-End Encrypted Messaging App (TechCrunch)

End-to-end encrypted messaging app and service Wire announced a partnership with accounting and consulting company EY. Essentially, Wire is providing an on-premise version of its m... More

Mobile Time to Surpass TV Time in 2019 (Digital TV Europe)

Adults in the US will spend more time using their mobile devices than watching their TVs, a new study has found. According to eMarketer, US adults will spend an average of 3 hours ... More

Applicaster Powers Copa America 2019 App, Online Fan Experience

Media and TV app development solution experts Applicaster is powering both the mobile app and web experience for the CONMEBOL Copa America 2019 soccer tournament, aiming to provide... More

Netflix Testing New Mobile App Content Feed (Business Insider)

The more TV shows and movies that hit Netflix, the harder it becomes for people to sort through all of the content on the service to find something to watch.... More

People Spend More Time on Mobile Devices than TV, Firm Says (L.A. Times)

It’s finally happened: Americans now spend more time on their phones and tablets than they do watching TV.... More

Spotify is Building Shared-Queue Social Listening (TechCrunch)

Want to rock out together even when you’re apart? Spotify has prototyped an unreleased feature called “Social Listening” that lets multiple people add songs to a queue they c... More

Apple is Keeping the iPod Alive With a New Model (CNBC)

Apple on Tuesday announced a new iPod Touch, replacing the previous model that was introduced in 2015. The new iPod touch starts at $199 and includes Apple’s A10 Fusion processor... More

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