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Angolan app gives performers a lifeline – streaming to paying public
When the Angolan government imposed its coronavirus lockdown in late March, local entrepreneur and innovator Claudio Kiala saw a gap in the market when it came to virtual entertain...
Indian video-sharing apps surge in popularity following TikTok ban
Indian tech businesses are looking to capitalise on the opportunities arising from a ban on Chinese owned apps, including TikTok, with one rival video app saying it had added a sta...
Sushi meets AI: Japanese inventor’s app scopes out the best tuna cuts
If you’ve ever bought sushi in a supermarket, you may know the taste trauma that hit Kazuhiro Shimura one night. But “disappointing” tuna sparked an idea: he̵...
Swedish drinkers to go the distance with new pub app
Pub drinkers and restaurant-goers are set to get digital help from Swedish-based developers whose new app aims to make social distancing rules work as the hospitality industry caut...
Privacy Commissioners to investigate Tim Hortons’ app
Tim Hortons’ mobile app will be investigated after concerns about how the breakfast and coffee chain may be collecting and using data were raised, the Office of the Privacy C...
Britain’s COVID-19 app: The game changer that wasn’t
As Britain’s COVID-19 infections soared in the spring, the government reached for what it hoped could be a game changer – a smartphone app that could automate some of the wor...
Massive spying on users of Google’s Chrome shows new security weakness
A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security have ...
Data puzzle as Spanish government tweaks coronavirus tracking system
Spain’s Health Ministry has defended changes to its methodology for recording coronavirus data that have led to wild fluctuations in daily statistics and provoked sharp criti...
India to roll out coronavirus app for Reliance’s JioPhone in bid to widen use
India will within days roll out a version of its coronavirus contact-tracing application that can run on mobile carrier Reliance Jio’s cheap phones, as it looks to increase t...
India orders coronavirus tracing app for all workers
India has ordered all employees across both public and private sectors use a government-backed contact tracing app and maintain social distancing in offices as it begins easing som...
Zoom raises encryption level with an upgraded meeting app
Zoom Video Communications has announced that it is upgrading the encryption features on its video conferencing app to better safeguard meeting data and offer protection against tam...
Bluetooth phone apps for tracking coronavirus show modest early results
When Singapore launched the first smartphone app of its kind last month to identify and alert people who had interacted with carriers of the novel coronavirus, the city-state of ro...
Rift opens over European coronavirus contact tracing apps
A rift has opened up over the design of smartphone apps to trace people in Europe at risk of coronavirus infection, potentially hindering efforts to curb the pandemic and ease crip...
Italy tests contact-tracing app to speed its exit from COVID-19 lockdown
Italy plans to use a contact-tracing smartphone app developed by start-up Bending Spoons to track people who test positive for the new coronavirus as part of efforts to lift its na...