Reports and Coverage

Some 90% of young women and teenage girls in the world's poorest countries have no access to the internet, according to a recently published United Nations report.

Exploring the ongoing hardships of the telecom and ICT sectors in Lebanon, Telecom Review successfully hosted the virtual panel, “The Telecom Sector in Lebanon: From Pioneering to Collapse,” which covered the continuing implications of the crisis for customers as well as the challenges faced by businesses and the sector as a whole.

Meta Chief Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that you can now “log into the same WhatsApp account” on multiple phones. Previously, users could only use one WhatsApp account on one phone and multiple companion devices.

Transgene, a biotech company that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, and NEC Corporation, a leader in IT, network and AI technologies, announced that new data will be presented today on TG4050, an individualized neoantigen cancer vaccine, at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. TG4050 is based on Transgene’s myvac® platform and powered by NEC’s cutting-edge AI capabilities.

After the much-publicized cancellation of the iconic blue flag, Twitter Head Elon Musk has taken the additional step of renaming the company to “X Corp” to become a single corporate application with multiple functions: electronic payments and ticket booking, and exchange of messages, conversations, and files.

Ookla's Q1 2023 Internet Performance Report revealed the state of the UAE's mobile and fixed networks, based on data from Speedtest.

Nokia and e& recently participated in “UN Women,” a United Nations Women’s program to support the global implementation of the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs).

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has announced that he will build a “truth-seeking AI” that will fight against politically correct information to counter the efforts of giants like Microsoft and Google with their artificial intelligence models.

According to the data released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the five countries most prepared to use and adopt technologies that are essential to the green tech transition are the United States, Sweden, Singapore, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Telecom Review continues its series of virtual panels, this time exploring the ongoing hardships of the Telecom and ICT sectors in Lebanon — the continuing implications for customers and the challenges for businesses — in the panel entitled “The Telecom Sector in Lebanon: From Pioneering to Collapse” on April 19^th at 10:30 a.m. Beirut time.