Sci & Tech

<p>Read the latest news about Iran's technology industries, from startups, mobile networks, innovative companies and e-commerce.</p>

  • Rocket Internet is one of the least known but most prolific Internet companies in Europe, if not the world.

    In recent years, the German Internet giant, which applies business formulas to…

  • Launched around five months ago, Windows 10 now claims nearly 10% (9.96% to be exact) of the desktop operating system market share, according to the latest data from market research firm Net…

  • Iran Space Research Center is establishing a satellite launch base in the southern port city of Chabahar in Sistan-Baluchestan Province.

    The first phase of the project pertains to the…

  • Servers of Telegram messaging app went down in several areas around the world on Saturday.

    Regions affected most by the problem included Iran, Oman, central Europe, Australia and California…

  • A week after it was banned in India, Facebook’s Free Basics service, which aims to bring affordable Internet to 5 billion people in the world who otherwise can’t access it, has been suspended in…

  • Huawei Technologies Company said on Thursday its full-year 2015 revenue rose 35.3% from a year earlier to 390 billion yuan ($60.1 billion), aided by strong sales growth for smartphones.

  • Vietnam sought to discourage its Internet-savvy public on Wednesday from reading Web postings that disparaged its Communist Party, warning of an increase in “toxic” activity just weeks away from…

  • The First Conference of Iran’s e-Business Leaders was held in Tehran last week. The event brought together members of Iran’s Information Technology Organization, e-business and other high-profile…

  • Internet in Iran has certainly changed in the past 12 months, with a radically different result in the leading website chart through 2015.

  • Keeping kids away from questionable content while they surf the web is an ongoing battle and there’s a new site that’s looking to help.

  • Iran’s Internet bandwidth is expected to increase to 4 terabits per second in the coming months, said the minister of communications and information technology.  Pointing to the recent…

  • The global annual worth of financial transactions in the field of information technology amounts to $3.8 trillion, of which Iran has a meager share of $6 billion, said the Ministry of…

  • Nearly 22 million Iranians are on social media application Telegram, 15 million of whom are active users, said the secretary of Iran’s Council of Cyberspace.

    Abolhassan Firouzabadi added…

  • Iranian researchers have built a home connectivity system that works via wireless Internet.

    Ali Moqaddas, a researcher at a knowledge-based company, added that the new system provides the…

  • Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, the world’s top smartphone maker, plans an initial production run of about 5 million of its upcoming Galaxy S7 smartphones.

  •  Air pollution could be big business.

    Two of the world’s largest technology firms, IBM and Microsoft, are vying to tap the nascent, fast-growing market for forecasting air quality in…

  • 2015 has been a momentous year for Iran’s technology industries with the take-up of 3G/4G Long Term Evolution Internet connections going through the roof.

    In fact, Internet through mobile…

  • Iran will be setting up three centers abroad for promoting the export of knowledge-based products, an official at the Presidential Office's Science and Technology Department said.  According…

  • Researchers from the Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology have designed and produced dual-nozzle 3D printers that allow two-color prints with application in medical field.

  • Iran and Russia have discussed ways of expanding scientific and technological cooperation, particularly in the fields of space and aviation industries.

  • LG officially unveiled its latest flagship—V10—in Tehran on Thursday.

    Present at the event was LG Electronics’ product manager, Kang Man Lee, who highlighted the popularity of social media…

  • Turkey’s Higher Education Board (YOK) has agreed with Iran’s Ministry of Science, Research and Technology to set up a monitoring group to flesh out cooperation between the countries’ higher…

  • Iranian researchers at Amirkabir University of Technology have designed an exoskeleton, which is a kind of wearable robot. Faezeh Eskandari, a postgraduate of biomechanics- biomedical engineering…

  • This year’s “Capture the Flag” contest hosted by Sharif University of Technology will be held during February 5-10, 2016, in Tehran.

    CTF is a special kind of information security…

  • Just over a week after Samsung paid Apple more than $548 million for infringing the patents and designs of the iPhone, Apple has asked a US court to force its biggest smartphone rival to cough up…