Category: International

The QR code began in Japan and was invented by Toyota to track automobile production. It spread across Japan, Europe and now here in the United States. These mobile trends are setting fire to industries all over the world.

BLIK mobile payments expands from Poland to Romania and Slovakia

Jesse Collins
Mobile payments - Romania, Slovakia, Poland Flags

The system will be crossing borders with the introduction of DXC Technology, aiming to expand further. Leading Fortune 500 global tech services provider DXC Technology has been tapped to offer support to the expansion of the Polish Payment Standard (aka Polski Standard Płatności, PSP) mobile payments system BLIK as it moves into Slovakia and Romania. The idea is to modernize the BLIK central system and adapt it to meet Romanian and Slovakian standards. DXC will be responsible for making certain that BLIK will be capable of processing transactions in both…

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Nokia smartphone model shipments rise in India

L. Green
Smartphone model - Nokia - India Flag

The company’s sales data shows that in Q3 2023, its phone shipments experienced healthy growth in that market. Nokia managed to achieve smartphone model shipment growth in one of the largest markets in the world during the third quarter of this year, based on shipment data released by counterpoint. This doesn’t mean that the units were actually sold to customers but does indicate a brand’s performance. The smartphone model shipments of a brand don’t specifically point to the number of units consumers purchased within a span of time. However, it…

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Are internet outages covering up civil unrest in India?

Sam Lambert
Internet Outages - People looking at devices

A recent report has spotted a trend linking political turmoil and civil unrest with a struggle to get online. India could be among the large number of countries in the world that will cause deliberate internet outages in areas where there is civil unrest or political turmoil, according to a recent Washington Post report. It’s common for countries to shut off online access in an attempt to control populations. The militaries of Sudan and Myanmar both caused internet outages in their countries when they held armed coups two years ago.…

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Amazon facial recognition helps identify missing and dead following Hamas attack

John Montgallo
Facial Recognition - Identifying individuals

The Israeli military’s “Cyber War Room” used the technology for identification purposes. The Israeli military has used Amazon’s facial recognition system to identify at least 60 missing people using videos and images scraped from various social media platforms such as TikTok and Facebook. The project is being used to help identify missing and dead people after the Hamas attack on Israel. Hamas launched deadly terrorist attacks on Israel earlier this month, resulting in about 1,300 deaths and hundreds of missing people. A group of cyber experts started a volunteer project…

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Apple App Store not listed among compliant mobile marketplaces in China

Jesse Collins
App Store - China - Not Compliant

The country listed the marketplaces that comply with its new regulations, but Apple’s wasn’t on it. China’s internet and online ecosystem regulator recently released a list of the names of the various mobile app store marketplaces that are compliant with its regulations, and Apple’s marketplace wasn’t on the list. The list comes as a strong signal that the regulator has started enforcing new rules it previously announced. The regulator had already announced that it had a number of new regulations for mobile application marketplaces, including the need to file business…

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