By MATT O’BRIEN and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press As governments around the world consider how to monitor new coronavirus outbreaks while reopening their societies, many are starting to bet on smartphone apps to help stanch the pandemic. But their decisions on which technologies to use — and how far those allow authorities to peer into […]
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By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Goodbye lockdown, hello smartphone. As governments race to develop mobile tracing apps to help contain infections, attention is turning to how officials will ensure users’ privacy. The debate is especially urgent in Europe, which has been one of the hardest-hit regions in the world, with nearly […]
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The government of Cyprus is encouraging the voluntary use of a locally developed cellphone application designed to locate people who may have come into contact with someone carrying the coronavirus. The country’s Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy said Saturday that the COVTRACER app, […]
Ayoba MTN Zambia’s free instant messaging app has been launched and deployed earlier this week, in collaboration with music app Simfy Africa. It is currently available for download on all major Android devices from the Google Play Store. MTN Zambia’s Ayoba has many features, most notably, the ability for one to receive and send text […]
By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Want to see Chance the Rapper prank Hollywood stars? Catch a new action thriller starring Liam Hemsworth and Christoph Waltz? How about a six-minute edition of “60 Minutes”? There’s an app for that, and more. Quibi — a snappy amalgam of “quick” and “bite” — […]
Operators are ramping up offers that are intended to help their customers get through the current coronavirus pandemic. We know that the networks are overloaded through increased data but this industry is actually managing quite well with this. One other thing we need to see is whether services are financially possible for those people that […]
The Venezuelan startup of Innovation, Society and Smart Nation (SONICA) and Vente Mundo have developed the VM-COVID19 App to support Venezuelans abroad in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic. Experts around the world claim that this battle will be won, not only with strict measures such as social distancing and self-quarantine, but also thanks to […]
ToTok, an instant messaging, video call, and voice chat app, released ToTok Pay on March 17th for Android users. With this new feature, users can make payments through a QR code contactless system, as well as send money to their contacts through their ToTok chat, achieved through partnership with licensed financial institutions. The app has […]