LAS VEGAS (AP) — several dozen middle schoolers played video games and toured the e-sports arena at the Luxor casino-resort this week as part of a new program working to get girls excited about careers in science, technology, engineering, arts and math. The trip was part of a new program called Battle Born Girls Innovate, […]
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5G One of the biggest tech trends not to miss out on next year, is the arrival of 5G. 5G will have a huge impact on the role of telecoms and see companies become service providers as well as distributors. A shift in sales approach will be required to enable customers to understand and utilise […]
By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Google, the company that helped make it fun to just sit around surfing the web, is jumping into the fitness-tracker business with both feet, buying Fitbit for about $2.1 billion. The deal could put Google in direct competition with Apple and Samsung in the highly competitive market for smartwatches […]
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union warned Wednesday that next-generation telecommunication networks face a range of cyber threats, including from hostile countries. While steering clear of singling out Chinese tech company Huawei, an EU security risk assessment identified “states or state-backed actors” as the most serious and likely culprits […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics said Thursday its operating profit for the last quarter fell by nearly 56%, with its robust sales of smartphones, displays and TVs offset by a continuously weak market for computer chips. The South Korean technology giant reported an operating profit of 7.78 trillion won ($6.7 billion) for the […]
BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday accused the U.S. of “economic bullying behavior” after U.S. regulators cited security threats in proposing to cut off funding for Chinese equipment in U.S. telecommunications networks. China would “resolutely oppose the U.S. abusing state power to suppress specific Chinese enterprises with unwarranted charges in the absence of any evidence,” […]
Huawei has unveiled what it hails as an industry-first fully containerized 5G core network at the 5G Core Summit in Madrid. The network aims to apply container technology to all network functions (NFs) to make network deployment more agile and provide more rapid service rollout, which helps carriers empower new businesses and operations across industries […]
1. Telecommunication and Governance New communication and information technologies are contributing to good governance. Telecommunication technology keeps citizens informed. They’re now more aware of what’s going on in their environment than ever before. This pushes many governments to be more accountable and to maintain an efficient system encouraging more political transparency and citizen participation. 2. […]
In today’s connected world, wireless knowledge has become an important utility: an unseen aspect part of our contemporary infrastructure that supports several of the services that we rely on. As we begin to deploy connected devices in ever-greater numbers, and embrace rising technologies like autonomous systems, the Internet of Things (IoT) and computer game (VR), […]