Biometric authentication is ready to move beyond fingerprints and use a range of identifiers, from facial recognition to voiceprints, says a new study from Juniper Research. The new research study, Mobile Biometrics: Consumer Markets, Opportunities Read more…
Philippines telco rivals Globe Telecom and PLDT have signed a memorandum of understanding to reduce the interconnection rate for voice calls between the two operators, which in turn will translate to lower prices for domestic Read more…
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Digital payments providers in India have mobilized hundreds of extra workers to enroll small merchants and offered their services for free, betting that severe cash shortages will prove to be the Read more…
Hong Kong telecoms regulator OFCA is under fire again for overpricing spectrum as 900/1800 MHz licenses come up for renewal, with industry players, consultants and the local Chamber of Commerce slamming a proposal to raise Read more…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Three of Australia’s four biggest banks will be barred from collectively bargaining with Apple over its Apple Pay mobile digital payments system, under a draft decision released by the antitrust regulator on Read more…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany were hit on Sunday by network outages and a company executive blamed the disruptions on a failed hacking attempt to hijack consumer router Read more…
BENGALURU (Reuters) – Anticipating a more protectionist US technology visa program under a Donald Trump administration, Indian companies in the country’s $150 billion IT services sector will speed up acquisitions in the United States and Read more…
Privacy is becoming one of the most important issues of our time. So far, companies like Facebook and Google have got away with using customer data – or rather, user data – to make money Read more…
Bharti Airtel announced that it has deployed LTE-Advanced technology with carrier aggregation for both FDD and TDD bands in nine major cities across Tamil Nadu: Chennai, Madurai, Hosur, Vellore, Pondy, Trichy, Coimbatore, Salem and Tiruppur. Read more…
Nokia has been the most advanced of the major OEMs in embracing software-driven networks – even before SDN entered carriers’ daily conversations, it had Liquid Net and Liquid Apps, and back in 2011, it was Read more…
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