The HTC One has rightfully been one of the most popular and acclaimed phones of the year, and with a mini version of the mobile unveiled in July, it was surely only a matter of time until HTC supersized the device to make sure it had all bases covers.
Enter the HTC One max, a "phablet"-sized phone that boasts top specs and a similar sleek design as its tinier siblings.
We get separation anxiety if we are away from our smartphones.
Nearly three-quarters (72%) of respondents report being within five feet of their smartphones the majority of the time.
The study has been released by Jumio, a credentials management company headquartered in Palo Alto CA.
It offers payments, ID scanning and validation products for mobile and web transactions designed to reduce fraud in customer transactions.
One day in 2016, Yevgeniya Ivanyutenko, a 28-year-old born in Belarus and living in Canada, was chatting with other women on a forum where sex workers shared stories, tips and questions.
She'd signed up for every site she could find when she first became a cam girl, setting up a Twitter account for her new persona and interacting with guys over Skype or Yahoo Messenger.
I’m dating a very good Christian guy who is in a different country from where I am now.
While waiting to get married in a few years time, we still need maintain our intimacy and so he suggested that we have sex on the phone.
"If he sends it, I try a little more next time, and so on…" She shows me a screenshot of a guy paying her 0, then 5, then 1.
"You essentially have a blank check." These transactions can happen in person – at "cashpoint meets," where the findomme and paypig meet each other at an agreed-upon ATM – or online.
But her private messages weren't from men wanting to employ her skills as a financial dominatrix: they were from other sex workers, asking for help. Adding "sex work strategy consultant" to her bio, she went from simply taking money from clients for her expert abuse, to showing other women how they, too, could profit.