The year 2020 will always be remembered as the year where the world’s population locked itself indoors to ward off COVID-19 pandemic. Last year will also be remembered as the year that smartphones became one of the few tools for communication, playing games, downloading apps and accessing news and information in most countries around the […]
Yehia El Amine
Yehia is an investigative journalist and editor with extensive experience in the news industry as well as digital content creation across the board. He strives to bring the human element to his writing.
A former SoftBank Corp. employee has been arrested under the suspicion of illegally sharing 5G trade secrets with new employer, Rakuten Mobile, before the former was planning to launch their very own mobile network. Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested Kuniaki Aiba who allegedly leaked classified company information, breaching the Unfair Competition Prevention Law as well […]
WhatsApp has been at the epicenter of worldwide backlash and controversy in the first week of 2021 following their announcement of updating their privacy policy, which many around the globe found to be too intrusive. Under the terms of the new policy, Facebook will be able to collect users’ data from the app such as […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s media office announced Sunday that it will be discarding the popular instant messaging app WhatsApp, following its controversial privacy policy update. Instead, the office said it has decided to switch to Turkish homegrown application BiP. According to statements made through WhatsApp, presidential officials said the media office will begin updating […]
Controversy continues to loom over WhatsApp, as the popular instant messaging app suffered a security bug where private group chats seem to be appearing on Google searches, leaving room for anyone to join them. The issue first surfaced back in 2020 and was quickly fixed, but has now resurfaced once more, allowing private user data […]
WhatsApp rivals, Telegram and Signal, have witnessed a sudden surge in downloads and migration from the Facebook owned instant messaging app following a change of privacy policy that raised eyebrows across the world. According to data by U.S.-based data analytics firm Sensor Tower, Signal recorded more than 100,000 new users across both Apple and Google […]
Indian telecoms giant Tata Communications has acquired a majority equity stake of 58.1 percent in Oasis Smart SIM Europe SAS (Oasis), a France-headquartered embedded-SIM (eSIM) technology provider, according to a joint statement by both companies. Oasis develops and provides advanced technologies and personalized services to enable the deployment of eSIM and SIM technologies. With this […]
In a controversial move, popular instant messaging app WhatsApp have changed their privacy policy to allow Facebook – its parent company – to forcefully collect private user data such as phone numbers, payment info, location, and more. Users who refuse to comply with the updated policy – that will come into effect as of February […]
Saudi Arabian operator Zain has turned to Finnish Nokia to broaden its 5G partnership by deploying 60,000 units of the vendor’s FastMile 5G Gateway wireless broadband hub with eSIMs, across the Kingdom over the next 12 months. The technology will deliver stronger signal, better connectivity, and ultra-high data speeds to every corner of homes and […]
The Dominican Republican is anticipated to launch 5G services during 2021, with the government planning to begin a multi-spectrum tender during the second week of January making it the second country in Latin America who pushes for 5G. President Luis Abinader said the 5G network will represent a “great step forward” in terms of […]