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Surveillance applications – the new normal

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 […]

Achieving fixed network costs for carrier networks

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 pushes e-learning into 2020

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 […]

Online grocery services struggle to meet spike in demand

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 […]

Razan Itani, Solutions Manager at Monty Mobile

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 […]

IoT vendors – proactivity in challenging times

Consumer IoT vendors are looking for growth in the markets disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is forecast that shipments of wearable bands, smart speakers and smart personal audio devices will grow by 9.8% to reach 718 million units in 2020, as more people purchase devices that provide entertainment and help fulfil professional obligations as […]

Hackers' new target during pandemic: video conference calls

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 […]

Here's why 5G and Coronavirus are not connected

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have given us much to think and worry about. Despite there being no validated in-depth conclusion about the health effects of 5G, there have been multiple rumors in the media lately, about conspiracy theories related to the virus. One such theory we would like to discredit is the link […]

STC Health Centers Initiative valued at 100m SAR

STC Health Centers have launched as part of the company’s strategic alliance with the ministry of health, which is working on increasing prevention from the Corona virus pandemic and limiting its spread. STC have doubled their operational efficiency and awareness outreach of 22 of their healthcare centers across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The company […]