Turkey’s competition watchdog on Monday launched an investigation into Facebook and WhatsApp over the messaging application’s changes to its data-sharing rules. The Competition Board also said in a statement that it has ordered a suspension of WhatsApp’s new data collection rules in Turkey. The move came after the messaging application said it was updating its […]
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New Zealand’s central bank said Sunday that one of its data systems has been breached by an unidentified hacker who potentially accessed commercially and personally sensitive information. A third party file sharing service used by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand to share and store sensitive information had been illegally accessed, the Wellington-based bank said […]
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 […]
With the pandemic constantly challenging us to put our best tech forward, we hope to have lived up to the challenge, and maybe even more. COVID-19 really demonstrated how fast we can breathe life into new ideas and technologies that are already proving their value and worth. A significant challenge that the pandemic has brought […]
Even as the demand for consistent high-quality connectivity continues to rise as the pandemic has us jumping in and out of lockdowns, telcos have been looking to expand their revenue streams. Their desire to diversify their revenue streams beyond simple utilities has led to an explosion of services, where digital health has presented itself as […]
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 […]
With the advent of the pandemic, we notice some its laminating effects on technologies that are on the rise. More optimistically, we can begin to see the silver lining COVID-19 has had on technologies – more specifically the positive impact on the Internet of Things (IoT). The year 2020 will set out to be a […]
Hamrave Aval, operator of the Mobile Company of Iran (MCI), has announced that it will begin its 5G rollout efforts by the 20th of March 2021, as the country began commissioning fifth generation networks in March of 2020. While details and size of the project remain unknown, the director general of MCI suggested that the […]