The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has published its latest (extended) annual research, the Communications Market Report 2019. The report shows that the average broadband speed across the country rose by 18% in the last year. It grew from 52.2 Mbps to 64 Mbps. The report is formed on data gathered and collated in November of […]
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By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer Privacy watchdogs say that the popular TikTok video app is violating a children’s privacy law and putting kids at risk. A coalition of 20 groups, including Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and the Center for Digital Democracy, filed a complaint Thursday with the Federal Trade Commission saying that TikTok […]
Bharti Airtel has chosen IBM and Red Hat to develop their new telco network cloud that is specifically designed to enhance supporting core operations and enabling new digital services. Bharti Airtel is India’s third largest telecom operator according to the number of subscribers. Bharti Airtel is set to build its core network, alongside analytical tools […]
Rakuten Mobile, characterizes itself as a global communications company and adopter of advanced telco technologies, has announced that it is going to acquire one of its suppliers: Innoeye (Innoeye, LLC and Innoeye Technologies Pvt. Ltd.), an engineering technology solutions company with headquarters based in Virginia, which has already supplied Rakuten Mobile with its converged OSS. […]
By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer On April 1, a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emailed Nevada public health counterparts for lab reports on two travelers who had tested positive for the coronavirus. She asked Nevada to send those records via a secure network or a “password protected encrypted file” to […]
By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — At the height of China’s coronavirus outbreak, the skincare-products maker Forest Cabin closed more than half of its 300 stores across the nation as shoppers stayed home. With sales plunging, founder Sun Laichun decided it was time to reach his customers more directly. “We knew […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted commerce and, in some cases, stopped the world in its tracks—as a result, nearly every industry is re-evaluating the way it operates. For some businesses, changes to tech systems and operations will be more dramatic than others, and it’s important to be prepared if your company is facing a major post-pandemic […]
By AMANDA SEITZ and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — One by one, tech companies across Silicon Valley scrambled to take down a slickly produced video of a discredited researcher peddling a variety of conspiracy theories about the coronavirus. It was all too late. The 26-minute documentary-style video dubbed “Plandemic,” in which anti-vaccine activist […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Uber is considering acquiring Grubhub in a deal that would give the companies control over a majority of the U.S. food delivery business, according to published reports. Ride-sharing and food delivery giant Uber Technologies Inc. approached Grubhub Inc. earlier this year with an all-stock takeover offer, The Wall Street Journal reported […]
In an obvious move that makes clear its intention to be a leading actor in the nascent telco edge computing market, IBM revealed a series of new software solutions and applications which are designed to assist CSPs (Communication Service Providers) and enterprises to develop and execute their edge computing strategies, citing the “5G era” as […]