By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Singapore has suspended the use of Zoom for online education after hackers hijacked a lesson and showed obscene images to students. In what is known as “Zoombombing,” two hackers interrupted a geography lesson a day after Singapore closed schools on Wednesday in partial lockdown measures to […]
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Ooredoo Group has taken measures to support its customers across its digital footprint as the Coronavirus continues to spread, with digital solutions and relief measures, Ooredoo engineers are currently sharing knowledge online internationally that will better serve and support their customers. With the current surge in online usage, Ooredoo Group have drastically optimized network performance […]
By FRANK BAJAK and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers Apple and Google fueled hopes for digital technology’s promise against a fast-moving, invisible killer, announcing a joint effort to help public health agencies worldwide leverage smartphones to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. New software the companies plan to add to phones would make it easier to use […]
RtBrick has recently announced the availability of its Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) software. RtBrick’s BNG is the first use-case for its FullStack routing software, which runs on merchant-silicon hardware, transforming it into carrier IP/MPLS infrastructure. Mr. Richard Brandon, VP of Marketing at RtBrick talks us through their new software for disaggregated networks. Tell us about […]
The United States is one of the last nations to feel the full impact of the Coronavirus, which is now rapidly spreading throughout the country. There have already been substantial ramifications to the economy in general and the Dow Jones index has been down 25% since the middle of February. But will the telecoms industry […]
The WFH reality is now upon us in ways we did not anticipate. So, what is the perfect way to turn remote work into a more productive, better experience? Firstly, most businesses are treating this scenario as a temporary one, however there are those who claim it will initiate a more permanent, steady trend in […]
M-Pesa money services are now entirely owned by Safaricom and Vodacom’s joint venture, after a deal was made with Vodaphone, the mother company of Vodacom. The companies, retain a 50/50 split on shares and have acquisitioned all support services, product development, as well as future decisions and strategy. M-Pesa – ‘M’ standing for Mobile and […]
By BARBARA ORTUTAY, DEE-ANN DURBIN and MICHAEL LIEDTKE The Associated Press Just as the coronavirus outbreak has boxed in society, it’s also squeezed high-flying tech companies reliant on people’s freedom to move around and get together. Since the beginning of March, for instance, Uber shares have lost a quarter of their value. Rival Lyft is […]
It has been widely circulated lately, that governments in countries around the world have been using anonymized and aggregated phone tracking to help combat COVID-19. The next wave of technology is digital contact tracing. At the moment, these are optional applications that combine Bluetooth’s Relative Signal Strength Indicator, a duration timer and a masked identifier […]
Telecoms attention is transferring to the fixed network, which has to handle the data generated by 5G networks and needs to deal with the existing, increasing connection that is presented at the network edge by fibre access networks. There is much of the so-called ‘mobile’ data that travels to and from smartphones and arrives via […]