On February 25, 2017, Dr Brigitta Blaha, an Ambassador of Austria, discussed with Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday the topic of cooperation in hydropower projects, and in particular some hydro projects and electricity production from solid waste. These two works noted appeal not only to the Punjab economy for …
Read More »Time Consuming, Fee-happy Financial Transactions, Not just a #FirstWorldProblem
#FirstWorldProblems are pretty funny, but whether in a first, second, or third world country, financial transactions can be time consuming or fee-happy. Techistan reporters remember PayPal president CEO Dan Schulman, who was a first-time keynote speaker for GSMA Mobile World Congress 2016, sharing that with Earth’s high mobile and smartphone …
Read More »Tigo Tanzania Offers Under – Five Mobile Birth Registration – He and she exist!
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, October 5, 2016 — [Once a child has proof of existence, life has the opportunity to be good!] Tanzania digital lifestyle company Tigo support the government of Tanzania under-five birth registration initiative through innovative mobile application that massively accelerates the provisioning of birth certificate for children under …
Read More »Otono Networks and G&D on Partnership to Offer eSIM Advanced Enablement to Mobile Carriers at 2016 Competitive Carriers Association Annual Convention
SEATTLE, WA (September 20, 2016) – Otono Networks and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) will team up at the Competitive Carriers Association’s 2016 Annual Convention to announce a partnership to offer advanced eSIM enablement and management services in the global market for device connectivity. With the first eSIM-enabled wearables coming to …
Read More »Businesses Customize Mobile Products via Aruba – Expensive Hardware Not Required
Enterprises are playing catch up with smaller and much nimbler entrepreneurial startups who early on have taken advantage of mobile for business app customization platforms for communications and other processes like Mulesoft, Google, Dropbox, 2600HZ, Plivo and more. A Hewlett Packard Enterprise company Aruba’s Aruba Mobile First Platform will offer …
Read More »11 Tech Words to Decode from Leet Speak
Hack the true origin of the 11 Leet Speak terms in this Techistan magazine image! Ever replaced alpha and / or numerical characters with other numerical and symbol characters in a password or message? You used leet speak, a.ka., hackspeak or leet! It is the replacement of the letters in …
Read More »Is the Future Bright or Grim for Small Telcos?
What is the word on Reliance Jio’s unbelievable offer of free voice calls, roaming and some of the world’s cheapest data plans in India? Will it push smaller guys like Aircel, Tata Teleservices, Telenor India, and Tata Teleservices to “good night” forever? What can the smaller telcos in India and …
Read More »Cluecon Coder Games Hackathon 2016 – VoIP WebRTC SMS DIDs
The Cluecon Coder Games and Hackathon are heady experiences to participate in and watch. DIDX’s Bowen happened to listen in on XOXSO and Bandwidth guys who were setting up a VoIP call with a virtual phone line. There was a tie for second place that included MWI routings on pushbutton …
Read More »Why is Everyone Crazy in Love with WebRTC and Virtual Phone Numbers?
Communicating over Internet or cellular networks have been an ever increasing big deal since 1995 when Vocaltec’s Internet Phone and Nokia’s popular hand sets introduced the world to such. Popular Kamailio, Asterisk and FreeSWITCH developer and telecom engineer Salman Zafar, who has played a major part in the industry for …
Read More »u-blox sponsors a GNSS Summer School in Tokyo
Thalwil, Switzerland and Tokyo, Japan – August 8, 2016 – u-blox (SIX:UBXN), a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, was one of the main sponsors of the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Summer School held at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (TUMSAT) on August 1-6. …
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