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FDA authorizes first COVID-19 home testing kit

As the pandemic continues to spread, some countries are hitting new records of Covid-19 cases per day while others go back into total lockdown. Although it may seem like the pandemic is winning, humanity is scoring its own wins. Starting from the two proposed Covid-19 vaccines, to the latest innovation in home testing kits.  Earlier […]

Risk Mitigation: What it is and how to implement it?

One of the major aspects that most businesses tend to put behind their backs is risk management and mitigation. It is a serious matter that cannot be ignored at any cost. Los Angeles IT consulting recommends being proactive about risk management and get started with risk mitigation so that any threat to the business can […]

Top UK operators join forces to fight online identity fraud

The UK’s four mobile network operators – EE, O2, Three, and Vodafone – have teamed up in developing a new application that aims to fight online identity fraud. The app, called Number Verify, aims to strengthen consumer safety online and works as a verification software that allows customers to authenticate their user identities through matching […]

How can telcos capitalize on IoT?

Currently it’s hard for anyone to read tech news, attend webinars, or surf the Internet without the slightest mention of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the mix.  Set to become one of the most disruptive technologies since Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn’s invention of the World Wide Web, IoT holds so much promise across […]

Telia Carrier Beefs Up US Network, Adding New Connectivity Options to the ‘Silicon Prairie’ Region

Telia Carrier announced today that it has added another new diverse and latency-optimized DWDM route in the U.S., between Chicago and Denver via Des Moines, IA and Omaha, NE. The expansion is part of the company’s ongoing organic buildout of its North American network and commitment to provide customers both direct and diverse route options. […]

IoT and data-driven FinTech look to rock finance to its core

As the Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on businesses, countries, and global economies alike, bringing projects, funding, conferences, and travel to a screeching halt, the tech industry prospered and skyrocketed upwards. Digitization filled the air with everything from education, grocery shopping to remote working from home. The financial services industry, although under extreme pressure to meet […]

i3forum Insights Expands Its Data Sets to Give International Carriers a 360 View of the Voice Market

 i3forum, a not-for-profit industry body enabling and accelerating transformation across the carrier ecosystem, has added direct traffic data to i3forum Insights, its comprehensive market database for international voice services. The feature will enable international carriers to plan, optimise and benchmark their voice businesses with access to both wholesale and bilateral traffic data.  The addition of […]

Twitter, Facebook CEOs vow election action; GOP touts curbs

As the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook gave assurances of vigorous action against election disinformation, Republicans at a Senate hearing Tuesday pounded the social media companies over political bias, business practices and market dominance, laying the ground for curbs on their long-held legal protections. Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg defended at the Senate […]

Telco cybersecurity: preserving customer trust as new technologies edge closer

Telecoms operators are vulnerable to cyberattacks around the world, mainly due to their critical national and international roles in infrastructure and communication, while possessing heaps of sensitive data from their large clientele.  Almost 43 percent of telecom companies have suffered from DNS-based malware in 2019 alone, noting that a staggering 81 percent of these companies […]

Challenges ahead for digital health implementation

Earlier last month, the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Conference took place with top minds meeting to discuss the main challenges facing digital health.  The current pandemic has successfully exhausted health systems around the world to their limits. During the opening panel of the HIMSS & Health 2.0 Europe Digital Conference titled, Leveraging Digital Health […]