In this week's roundup, we looked at the top news stories from the B2B tech & telecoms industry. The stories cover topics including: CIoTs, Telecoms, Data Centres, Metaverse, Branding, Social Media, Tech Centers, Quantum Computing and Cyber Attacks.
Here are our highlights:
Monday:
Vodafone Qatar launches Smart Tracker
Vodafone Qatar has launched a Smart Tracker of valuables which, according to a report in The Peninsula, is the world’s first consumer Internet of Things (CIoT) service. Smart Tracker locates anything valuable that you’re likely misplace and can save the user hours of hunting time looking for wallets, bags, luggage, laptops, motorbikes and even cars.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/39zbBEd
Interpol targets telecoms in $50m crackdown
A worldwide crackdown on social engineering fraud has seen scammers identified globally by Interpol.
Police participating in countries raided national call centres suspected of telecoms or scamming fraud, particularly telephone deception, email deception and connected financial crime.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3y4ViIv
Tuesday:
Aramco, Cognite team for data centre venture in Saudi Arabia
Aramco and Cognite have launched CNTXT, a joint data centre venture in Saudi Arabia.
The company will be headquartered in Riyadh with the aim of supporting industrial digitalisation in the Kingdom and the wider MENA region.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3Ow8Hi2
Hyundai Taps Singtel’s 5G Network to Enable Delivery of its ‘Metamobility’
Singtel signed an agreement with Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) to deploy Singtel’s 5G infrastructure network solutions at its Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Centre in Singapore (HMGICS) which includes an electric vehicle production facility.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3Ov92lm
Wednesday:
Kantar: Apple on track to hit $1T brand valuation while Amazon falls
UAE: Special 2-digit Etisalat phone number receives top bid of Dh250,000
UAE residents have made top bids of up to Dh250,000 for a new service that shortens Etisalat mobile phone numbers to as little as two digits. Called #TAG, 40 special codes have been listed on the Emirates Auction website.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3xOoq5H
Thursday:
Twitter tests 'notes' feature with 2,500 word limit
Twitter said the move was a response to seeing people use the platform to post pictures of longer announcements and steer followers to outside newsletters.
Read the full story here: https://bbc.in/3Ok3HOa
Microsoft reveals extent of attacks by Russian hackers on Ukraine allies
Microsoft warns that "significant collective defensive weaknesses remain" among some European governments.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3yg1eic
Friday:
Huawei launches largest overseas tech experience center in Saudi Arabia
In collaboration with the Saudi Space Commission, Huawei launched the Future Space in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, said Huawei Saudi Arabia, the company's Saudi branch, said in a press release.
Read the full story here: https://on.china.cn/3HQusqX
Amazon’s AWS sets up lab to develop quantum networking
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Networking is associated with the company’s Center for Quantum Computing, announced in October 2021 and based at the Caltech campus in Pasadena, California.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3A5iQyn
