Global investment firm KKR acquired on Tuesday a majority stake in Telefónica’s Chile fiber optic network to establish the country’s first open access wholesale fiber optics company. Under the deal, KKR’s newly established independent Chilean company with utilize and manage local assets and serve as the country’s first wholesale digital infrastructure network, open to all […]
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Amnesty International says it has found that a hacking group known as Ocean Lotus has been staging more spyware attacks on Vietnamese human rights activists in the latest blow to freedom of speech in the communist-ruled country. The human rights group said Wednesday that Amnesty Tech’s Security Lab found evidence of the hacking attempts in […]
China’s ZTE Corporation has released its Intelligent Orchestration Radio Network solution, which employs an innovative AI-based intelligent orchestration engine to enable MNOs to achieve maximum value from 5G networks, the company announced Tuesday. “ZTE has introduced intelligent orchestration capabilities into wireless networks for the first time. From the perspective of all frequency bands and radio […]
Struggling under U.S. sanctions, Huawei unveiled a folding smartphone with an 8-inch (20-centimeter) -wide screen Monday to show off its tech prowess but said it will be sold only in China. The Mate X2 highlights the challenges for Huawei Technologies Ltd. after Washington cut off access to U.S. processor chips and Google services. Last year, […]
Malaysia announced late last week that it’s going to accelerate development and deployment of fifth generation networks, Prime Minister Muhiyddin Yassin unveiled during his digital economy blueprint. The announcement reverses the government’s previous stance of postponing the launch to better focus on 4G technology. According to media reports, the blueprint will include 15 billion ringgits […]
South African telecom giant MTN Group announced late last week that it will pledge to achieve net zero emissions by 2040, as it plans to lead by example combatting climate change on the African Continent. With global warming on the rise and impacting countries, communities, and people everywhere, MTN has set science-based targets to achieve […]
It’s been a busy week for NASA, with early Monday morning seeing the docking of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus N-G15 resupply mission spacecraft to the ISS, which includes thousands of pounds of food and science experiments, including a joint HPE/Microsoft collaboration to bring advanced computing power and AI to the station with the Spaceborne Computer-2. […]
China’s top diplomat called Monday for new U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration to lift restrictions on trade and people-to-people contacts while ceasing what Beijing considers unwarranted interference in the areas of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet. Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s comments at a Foreign Ministry forum on U.S.-China relations come as Beijing presses the […]
As the pandemic raged through the U.S., Microsoft’s business continued chugging ahead and beat Wall Street expectations for the last three months of 2020, powered by ongoing demand for its workplace software and cloud computing services as people worked from home. The company on Tuesday reported fiscal second-quarter profit of $15.5 billion, up 33% from […]
A recent survey reported that more than half (56 percent) of small businesses in the U.S. engaging on social media on at least a weekly basis are projecting revenue growth in 2021, despite continuing COVID-related business limitations, according to B2B services group Visual Objects. “If small businesses want to genuinely connect with consumers in their […]