Telecom
Demonetisation: Foxconn benches 1,700 staffers; Lava shuts plant
13 Dec 2016
The world’s largest contract manufacturer, Foxconn, has asked nearly a fourth of its 8,000 factory workers to go on paid leave for two weeks after last month’s demonetisation saw sales slump almost 50 per cent
Finger swipe-powered phone? We're 1 step closer
10 Dec 2016
Mobile money access lifted 2% of Kenyan households out of poverty, finds new study
09 Dec 2016
The expansion of mobile money, introduced in Kenya in 2007, now reaches 96 per cent of the country's households, helping to bring hundreds of thousands of Kenyans out of poverty, especially those in female-headed households
UK, US routinely intercept on-flight phone calls: Snowden papers
08 Dec 2016
Intelligence agents at the UK Government Communications Headquarters, GCHQ, and America's National Security Agency, NSA, are able to identify and intercept individuals' phones on most commercial flights in "near real time" via a triangulation process using passenger lists, satellites and ground detectors
