Digital Trends

MAY 5, 2022

T-Mobile is taking a bold new step into 5G home internet with a new program that will make it easier for broadband customers to “break up with Big Internet.”.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

SpaceX’s new Starlink satellite internet service is in a very limited beta testing period right now, but the company is already thinking ahead: as first noted by CNBC , SpaceX has filed an application with the FCC for Starlink components that would allow the service to work on moving vehicles. Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 15, 2021. .

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TechSpot

AUGUST 3, 2023

The agency wants smart device providers to introduce a 'minor mode' that would prevent users aged under 18 from accessing the internet on mobile devices such as phones and tablets between. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) published regulations this week that include some extreme measures for addressing online addiction.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2021

Amazon’s Kindle e-readers with built-in 3G will begin to lose the ability to connect to the internet on their own in the US in December, according to an email sent to customers on Wednesday. The change is due to mobile carriers transitioning from older 2G and 3G networking technology to newer 4G and 5G networks.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

A little over a decade ago, Netflix decided to take streaming into its own hands: Instead of relying on commercial content delivery services, the streamer built its own servers from scratch, and gave them away to internet service providers. based internet providers in 2012.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

6) By 2018 more than half the world will have access to the Internet and by 2020 global internet users are expected to reach 4.2 First-time access the mobile internet is exploding across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East and in Europe, North America, and Australia, the mobile web has surpassed desktop.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted Friday that the company’s Starlink satellite internet network would come out of its open beta phase next month. That’s two months later than the August date Musk gave at Mobile World Congress , when he also said he expected the service to have “possibly over 500,000 users within 12 months.”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. The Internet is at a tipping point. Nonprofits have been experimenting with mobile and social networks for years. Mobile and social media require authenticity and a time investment to be effective. Be a content curator.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2021

SpaceX is asking the FCC for approval to beam Starlink internet into moving vehicles. SpaceX is seeking regulatory approval to connect its rapidly growing network of internet-beaming Starlink satellites to cars, trucks, shipping boats, and aircraft. A train of Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit passes over Uruguay.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Not long after it blocked Facebook , Myanmar has now ordered mobile networks and internet service providers to block Twitter and Instagram in the country as well. The company provides mobile services in Myanmar.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The Internet Archive — the non-profit digital library known for the Wayback Machine — announced that it will now preserve Flash animations and games , ahead of Adobe’s planned demise for the defunct web software at the end of 2020. In the years following, Adobe decided to end support for Flash on mobile. Image: Puffballs United.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Over the last decade the discussion around nonprofit technology ( #nptech ) has primarily been social media, mobile technology, and online fundraising, however as the internet enters its next phase, nonprofits need to better understand some of the more complicated concepts that will shape the internet and its use in the decades to come.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been tweeting some interesting details on expected improvements to Starlink, the company's space-based internet service.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2021

Over 50% of mobile visitors will leave if a webpage doesn’t load in just 3 seconds. 4) Check Mobile Responsiveness. Over 50% of all web traffic is on mobile devices. By 2025, over 72% of internet users will access the web solely via smartphones. This trend towards mobile is already affecting nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2023

4) Mobile purchasing—and giving—is on the rise It’s not surprising that with people spending more and more time on their phones, they’re using their smartphones to make purchases and donate to charities. In 2022 in the United States alone, mobile e-commerce (purchases made on a mobile device) surpassed 387 billion U.S.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The Razr’s buttons are some of the finest ever to grace a mobile device. In all my years of owning a Razr, I can’t say I tapped it more than once or twice, and never on purpose: the internet button. In all my years of owning a Razr, I can’t say I tapped it more than once or twice, and never on purpose: the internet button.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT , can now browse the internet — in certain cases. As a piece in The New Yorker notes, Google’s algorithm prioritizes websites that use modern web technologies like encryption, mobile support, and schema markup. They also aren’t necessarily representative of the totality of the web.

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TechSpot

MARCH 17, 2023

Linden Lab recently posted a brief video on its community forum to announce that Second Life will soon have a mobile counterpart. For the first time in 20 years, the virtual world where "residents" enjoy their low-polygonal internet life is expanding its reach beyond traditional desktop platforms. Read Entire Article

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

By Ryan Polk , a Policy Advisor at the Internet Society , where he is primarily focused on issues related to Internet trust. In support of Data Privacy Day on January 28th, the Internet Society shares 5 ways to protect our nonprofit’s data: Train your employees to update their devices and applications. So, don’t let them!

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Three months later, the startup has a different mission: to power the internet economy in Africa and has closed $2 million in seed investment towards that goal. We’re thinking of how we can power the internet economy with data that isn’t necessarily financial data. “It’s the same thing for us right now.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Ukraine’s largest telecommunications operator Kyivstar says it has been hit by a “powerful” cyberattack that has disrupted phone and internet services for millions of people across the country. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

If you’ve been wondering what could knock out one of the United States’ three big cellular carriers’ ability to deliver calls and text messages — and keep it that way for most of an entire day — T-Mobile now has a partial answer that pertains to its extensive nationwide outage Monday. Update on T-Mobile Voice and Text Performance.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2019

11: Safer Internet Day — #SID20. 29: World Internet Day — #WorldInternetDay. Day of Service — #MLKDay. 28: Data Privacy Day — #DataPrivacyDay. 2: World Wetlands Day — #WorldWetlandsDay. 4: World Cancer Day — #WorldCancerDay. 13: World Radio Day — #WorldRadioDay. 14: World Bonobo Day — #World Bonobo Day.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. Expert new media managers have the ability to anticipate the impact of emerging trends in mobile and social media. They use their creative impulses to come up with innovative mobile and social media campaigns for their own nonprofit.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A conjunction of power cuts and energy rationing plans could make mobile Internet unreliable and unavailable in Europe. Winter is coming and according to sources from within the industry, everybody knows the market will face a lot of issues. As a consequence of Russia's decision to stop gas supplies via.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

It’s been a little over a year since Ryan Reynolds bought a majority stake in Mint Mobile, a deal that has already had a dramatic impact on the the MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). It’s hard to imagine a string of words in the English language less sexy than, “mobile virtual network operator.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2017

29: World Internet Day — #WorldInternetDay. Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. 2: World Habitat Day — #WorldHabitatDay. 4: World Animal Day — #WorldAnimalDay. 5: World Cerebral Palsy Day — #WorldCPDay. 5: World Teachers Day — #WorldTeachersDay.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Is cellular good enough for a home internet connection? I was interested in T-Mobile’s Home Internet service from the first time I heard about it: it’s $50 (a price that includes the specialized router) , contract and data cap-free, and is powered by 5G and LTE instead of phone lines or cable.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

to found an internet-based bookstore. In 1998, Amazon bought the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for approximately $55 million, in the company’s first major acquisition. AWS was a commercial product that would provide the backbone for companies to run their own internet businesses from the cloud. Shaw & Co.

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Engadget

MARCH 17, 2025

Alphabet is letting its laser-based internet company Taara fly and be free, according to reporting by Financial Times. Taara uses light beams to provide high-bandwidth internet and phone services to hard-to-reach areas of the world. Taara doesnt even sell subscriptions directly to consumers.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

From paying bills to staying in touch with family and friends to researching tomorrow’s weather, people expect to be able to do just about anything from their mobile phones. That’s where mobile giving comes in. Mobile giving is a fundraising technique in which donors donate to a campaign using a mobile device.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Most than just a digital assistant, Amazon Alexa is evolving into software that empowers and proliferates the Internet of Things. As mobile apps add functionality to smartphones and tablets, Amazon Skills add functionality to Amazon Echo smart speakers. The era of nonprofits embracing the Internet of Things has begun.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In the early, nascent days of the Internet, webmasters treated their users as if they were monoliths – everybody got the exact same pop-up, which ran on every page of the site – annoying users and suppressing conversion rates. Yes, most of your traffic is probably coming from mobile. Attentive (for mobile SMS sign-up).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Finally, for your website to be compatible with the growing number of devices that it is likely to be viewed on in the coming decades – personal computers, smartphones, Smart TVs and appliances, and internet-connected mirrors and car dashboards, ensure that your website utilizes responsive design. On Mobile: 8) Use a social sharing app.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Google PageSpeed Insights :: pagespeed.web.dev PageSpeed Insights is a free tool provided by Google that analyzes how fast your website loads and displays on mobile and desktop devices. Story Swag :: iTunes Story Swag is a mobile app that specializes in easy-to-create story videos for social media. Lumen5 :: lumen5.com

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VentureBeat

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Qualcomm is aiming for gaming with the introduction of the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 Mobile processor platform. Read More

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 27, 2019

Emotion AI, the Internet of Things, voice-giving, facial recognition payments, and human microchips. InLieu is a mobile app that allows users to make donations in lieu of purchasing material gifts for friends and family, and at the same time, makes donating fast, easy and social. BitPay :: bitpay.com. InLieu :: inlieu.com.

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