Smartphones

Apple & Google Work On Virus 'Contact Tracing'

Google and Apple unveiled a joint initiative Friday to develop a coronavirus smartphone "contact tracing" tool that could potentially alert people when they have crossed paths with an infected person.The move brings together the largest mobile operating systems in an effort to use smartphone location technology to track and potentially contain the global COVID-19 outbreak.The initiative would allow apps to be created enabling smartphones powered by Apple software and Google-backed A

12 April 2020
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Smartphones causing Thai youths pain

Thailand’s embrace of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is perhaps among the most impressive in the region. From e-commerce to law enforcement, Thailand has shown that it is doing all it needs to ensure it lives up to its Thailand 4.0 plan.It’s often been pitted that while the Fourth Industrial Revolution brings a lot of opportunities with it, there are also some challenges.

14 November 2019
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Bribery retrial opens for Samsung’s heir

The heir to the Samsung empire appeared in court Friday for a retrial over a sprawling corruption scandal that threatens to disrupt management at the world's biggest smartphone and memory chip maker.Lee Jae-yong is vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics – where profits have been falling for months – and was jailed for five years in 2017 for bribery, embezzlement and other offences in connection with the scandal that brought down South Korean president Park Geun-hye.The 51-year-old was rele

25 October 2019
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Indonesia excited about 5G, but…

There is little doubt about it, the fifth-generation cellular network frequency (5G) is in our near future. The recent ruckus surrounding the United States (US) and China-based multinational company Huawei should only serve to remind us of how inevitable that fact really is.While the reception for 5G has largely been welcoming, the technology does not come without its own set of complications.

2 June 2019
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Mobile wallet revolution

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has seen many sweeping changes in the way we interact with one another. This interaction is not limited to human-to-human relationships but is extended to the way we deal with finances; with the idea of digitalising purchases and transactions now a reality. Mobile wallets are part of this reality, with users able to carry out purchases through cashless means, and as the term suggests, with the use of a smartphone.

14 October 2018
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