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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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 […]
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 […]
Telenor Group continues to promote e-learning and digital schooling to customers who are stuck at home, by introducing several remote learning services. With the tremendous rise in internet usage, Telenor subscribers are given the opportunity to read e-books and take courses for both adults and children, while in quarantine. The newest addition to their e-learning […]
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — A pandemic forcing everyone to stay home could be the perfect moment for online grocery services. In practice, they’ve been struggling to keep up with a surge in orders, highlighting their limited ability to respond to an unprecedented onslaught of demand. After panic buying left store […]
Monty Mobile is launching a Health Check Mobile App, Corona Care, which will rely on the full cooperation of people and their awareness to fill a daily health check questionnaire covering COVID-19 symptoms. A team of data scientists will build algorithms to analyze the data collected, and the support of medical experts is required to […]
By REGINA GARCIA CANO and AARON MORRISON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ceri Weber had just begun to defend her dissertation when the chaos began: Echoes and voices interrupted her. Someone parroted her words. Then Britney Spears music came on, and someone told Weber to shut up. Someone threatened to rape her. Hackers had targeted […]