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Eseye Win Multi-Year IoT Deal with MTN

Posted on September 23, 2023 by admin12

In a groundbreaking move, MTN South Africa has entered into a multi-year partnership with Eseye, a global IoT connectivity solutions provider. This partnership is set to redefine the landscape of IoT (Internet of Things) connectivity in the African region.

This exciting collaboration promises to enhance capabilities. It will also introduce innovative solutions to MTN South Africa’s extensive customer base of 36.5 million subscribers.

A Strategic Alliance for Digital Transformation

The cornerstone of this partnership lies in MTN South Africa’s decision to adopt Eseye’s global eSIM and IoT platform solution.

This choice comes after an exhaustive and competitive tendering process, during which Eseye’s Integra IoT Platform for mobile operators emerged as the victor.

The primary objective of this strategic alliance is to propel MTN South Africa into a position of leadership as a digital platform within the African continent.

Lawrence Juku, Head of IoT Solutions at MTN Business, shared his vision for the collaboration, saying, “We aim to become Africa’s top digital platform by providing financial and digital solutions that boost economic growth for people and businesses of all sizes. Our strategic partnership with Eseye will enable us to offer a diverse range of IoT services, including connectivity, IoT bundles, and value-added services to meet our customers’ global IoT needs.”

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Empowering IoT Connectivity with Eseye’s Integra IoT Platform

Eseye’s Integra IoT Platform is poised to drive the next generation of MTN’s IoT connectivity solution. It will streamline the onboarding and connection of millions of IoT devices.

Beyond managing connectivity, MTN is gearing up to provide a spectrum of value-added IoT services through Eseye. This move aims to elevate its service portfolio.

The rollout of Eseye’s solution is scheduled to commence in South Africa. There are ambitious plans for expansion across 18 operating companies throughout Africa.

This expansion will empower each operating company to tailor the solution to meet its specific market demands. It will also allow for seamless integration with MTN’s existing infrastructure.

A Global Vision for IoT Connectivity

This partnership is not confined to the African continent alone. It positions MTN to support customers with new IoT device connections not only within Africa but also on an international scale.

This strategic move underscores MTN’s commitment to staying at the forefront of technological advancements. It also aims to ensure compliance with emerging standards and regulations in the ever-evolving IoT landscape.

Nick Earle, CEO of Eseye, expressed his enthusiasm for the agreement, stating, “We are proud to have received this multi-year agreement from MTN, which is a big deal for Eseye.

It shows that not only our technology but also our knowledge of IoT is top-notch. This agreement includes a complicated technical process, and we’ve already put in a lot of effort into getting the technical project started. We’ll keep working on it in the coming months.”

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Reshaping the IoT Landscape

Eseye’s comprehensive IoT connectivity solutions, combined with MTN’s ambitious IoT goals, hold the promise of reshaping the IoT landscape. This transformation will not be limited to Africa but will extend beyond its borders.

This partnership signifies a significant stride toward creating a more connected future. It also aims to empower businesses and consumers across the African continent with digital capabilities.

“We’re delighted that MTN, one of our oldest partners, has trusted Eseye to provide a new global eSIM and IoT Platform. This will assist their customers in reaching their IoT goals. We’ve already started the work, and we’re looking forward to what the future brings,” Earle said.

The partnership between MTN South Africa and Eseye represents a pivotal moment in the evolution of IoT connectivity, promising to bring cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions to millions of users across Africa and the world.

Both companies, with their shared vision and commitment, are ready to lead the way in the continent’s digital transformation.

Motorola Unveils Vertical-Extending Rollable Smartphone

Posted on May 29, 2023June 11, 2023 by Admin

Discover the Latest Innovation of Motorola – a Rollable Smartphone with a vertically extending screen. Experience the future of mobile technology.

Key Points

The mobile phone on display at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has a five-inch flexible collection that can extend to 6.5 inches by pushing upward.
The phone is still in the concept phase. You won’t be able to buy it anytime soon.
This design is at least innovative in a market where it has been challenging to find new features that would excite consumers.

Motorola has unveiled a concept phone that unfolds as the user slides it upward.

The mobile phone on display at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has a five-inch flexible collection that can be extended to 6.5 inches by pushing upward.

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It is designed to be compact and easy to carry in your pocket, allowing you to multitask while improving productivity.

The phone won’t be available anytime soon. It’s still in the concept phase, so it’s impossible to know how much it will be.

Statista data shows that Motorola will only ship 51 million units by 2021.

This design is at least innovative in a market where it has been challenging to find new features that would excite consumers.

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New form factors such as folding displays are hoped to help change this.

Ben Wood, CCS Insight’s chief analyst, said: “It shows the rapid innovation in flexible display technology, with many concept products that experiment with a variety of forms.”

The device comes at a difficult time for smartphone manufacturers.

Sales in the mobile industry declined 11.3% last year as consumers tightened up their budgets. This trend has continued as people hold onto their phones longer, as major phone manufacturers’ upgrades are only incremental.

Lenovo, Motorola’s parent company, unveiled this week a rollable computer at its conference. The laptop, like the phone rises slowly vertically to allow you to see more web pages or multiple apps on one screen.

Amazon Launches New AI Tools to Compete with Tech Giants

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Admin

“Amazon Web Service brings Bedrock, a service that will enable firms to customize their foundation models- the core AI technologies that perform things like answering queries with human-like text or generate images instantly with their own data to develop a unique model.”

AWS, the cloud computing division of Amazon Inc on Thursday unveiled a suite of technologies focused on helping other organizations launch their own chatbots and image-generation services powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

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Alphabet aka Google and Microsoft are adding AI-powered chatbots to consumer products similar to search engines, but these companies are also looking forward to building another huge market by selling the underlying technology to other organizations and firms through their cloud operations.

AWS, the world’s largest cloud computing service provider, joined the big fat competition by introducing its own proprietary AI technologies, but with a different approach.

Amazon Web Service brings Bedrock, a service that will enable firms to customize their foundation models- the core AI technologies that perform things like answering queries with human-like text or generating images instantly with their own data to develop a unique model.

For instance, OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT offers a similar type of service in which it allows its customers to improve the models behind ChatGPT to build a custom chatbot.

Vasi Philomin, Vice President of Generative AI at AWS, said, “It’s unneeded complexity from the perspective of the user. Behind the scenes, we can abstract that away.”

The Bedrock service from AWS will allow its customers to use its own proprietary foundation models named Amazon Titan, but it will also provide a comprehensive list of models provided by other companies. Along with Amazon-owned models, the first third-party offer will come from Anthropic, AI21 Labs, and Stability AI.

The Bedrock service from Amazon Web Service will empower its consumers to test those technologies without interacting with the underlying data center servers.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Battery Specs Leaked Before Launch

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Admin

“Three models of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 series are expected to be released later in 2023. These three models are the Galaxy Tab S9, Galaxy Tab S9+, and Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra. As per earlier reports, these models could be released at a second Galaxy Unpacked event later this year.”

Three models of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 series are expected to be released later in 2023. These three models are the Galaxy Tab S9, Galaxy Tab S9+, and Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra.

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As per earlier reports, these models could be released at a second Galaxy Unpacked event later this year. In February 2022, the Galaxy Tab S8 series was released which comprised Galaxy Tab S8+, Galaxy Tab S8, and Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra models. A new report says some vital specifications of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 device have been suggested.

Made by Samsung SDI, The Li-ion battery of the Galaxy Tab S9 series has part number EB-BX716ABY, as per a recent application found by GalaxyClub on the website of the Chinese agency CQC.

The report says the battery unit has a capacity of 8,160mAh, ensuring that the S9 series will get a larger battery than its predecessors S8 and S7 series.

The respective battery capacity of S7 and S8 had a rated capacity of 7, 760mAh which converted to a “typical” capacity of 8, 000mAh.

The report, therefore, contends that if the rated capacity of the battery of the S9 is 8, 160mAh, the typical capacity will likely be between 8, 400mAh and 8, 500mAh. The specification of the battery of the Galaxy Tab S9+ or Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra models is unknown still.

Firefox Relay: Mozilla’s Solution to Tracking and Email Spam

Posted on March 19, 2023 by Admin

“Firefox, the popular web browser of Mozilla gets a new feature, Firefox Relay, to prevent tracking and email spam. Mozilla hopes for ending the email spamming and online tracking of its users.”

Firefox, the popular web browser of Mozilla gets a new feature, Firefox Relay, to prevent tracking and email spam. Mozilla hopes for ending the email spamming and online tracking of its users.

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This new feature, Firefox Relay was first unrolled in the beta version in August 202 as an extension. Firefox Relay can mask the email addresses of users when they sign up for new accounts on websites, disabling third parties to get direct access to their real email accounts.

With this new feature, Firefox users now don’t need to have access to the management dashboard to generate these email aliases. Rather than this, Firefox Relay will encourage users of the browser to use an existing mask to make a new one while creating an account on a webpage.

Masking Your Email

These aliases that the new Firefox feature makes forward messages to the user’s real email address, which means users remain anonymous while still being able to get advantages from various websites, and services online.

By having different aliases for different sites, users can easily delete and create new ones if they get spam messages without changing their actual email account address.

And in case your email is exposed to data breaches, then all the threat actors have is your alias instead of your actual email address, protecting their privacy and anonymity.

Till today, Mozilla claims that the new feature has prevented more than two million spam and unwanted emails from appearing in actual email accounts of users.

Unlike other similar features from other tech giants, Firefox Relay also removes trackers from emails before moving them forward to the user’s real email account.

Users need to first sign up for using this feature in Firefox, which includes free and paid tiers.

Hackers in Order to Install Frebniis Malware Hacks IIS Feature

Posted on February 18, 2023February 18, 2023 by Admin

“Frebniis, the malware uses a method that injects harmful code into iisfreb.dll’s memory. Iisfreb.dll is a DLL file attached with an IIS feature used for checking unsuccessful web page requests.”

“Frebniss” is a new sort of malware that recently posed a threat to Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS).

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The malware is being employed by hackers to help them carry out stealthy commands using web requests that are transmitted through the internet.

Microsoft IIS is a robust software app platform uses for web application hosting and web server functionality. Among its multiple uses, the software application platform serves crucial services of Microsoft such as Outlook.

Microsoft IIS is a trusted platform and enables users to get easy access to services and web applications, making it a preferred choice for businesses and individuals simultaneously.

Frebniis Corrupts IIS Feature

Frebniis, the malware uses a method that injects harmful code into iisfreb.dll’s memory. Iisfreb.dll is a DLL file attached with an IIS feature uses for checking unsuccessful web page requests.

With the help of the IIS feature, all HTTP requests are stealthily tracked by Frebniis and detect particular formats of requests from the hacker, leading to the possibility of executing remote code.

The hacker must get access to the Windows system operating the IIS server utilizing another method to apply this trick. But, how the hacker got this access in this instance remains uncertain.

The injected .NET backdoor allows C# code execution and helps in proxying without doing disk interaction which makes it undetectable. A particular password is checked when default[.]aspx or logon[.]aspx are requested.

Frebniis can command and link with other systems via compromised IIS, utilizing a base64 encoded string as a second HTTP parameter, accessing secured internal systems which are publicly unavailable.

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