Under a newly approved law, authorities in Kazakhstan will from this summer have the power to remotely disable mobile telephones that are not registered in a state database.
Officials say…
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DigiKala, Iran’s largest e-commerce store, has had its iOS app removed from the Apple Store according to a new report from local technology blog techrasa.com. The blog surmises several reasons why…
Google, Apple and other tech giants expressed dismay over an executive order on immigration from President Donald Trump.
The US tech industry relies on foreign engineers and other technical…
MTN-Irancell, the partly South African owned second largest local mobile network operator, has announced a new service which enables users to have multiple SIM cards all paid from the same account…
Islamic Republic of Iran’s Broadcasting Organization (IRIB) has issued temporary permits to five Iranian companies to deliver Internet Protocol Television services (IPTV).
All but one (Iran…
Samsung is preparing to unveil a pair of Galaxy S8 smartphones significantly different from past models, according to someone familiar with the company’s plans.
Local utilities are pushing ahead with plans to overhaul the ageing residential and commercial electric metering infrastructure. One key feature of economic growth is smart utility meters and the…
The Iranian Space Agency and Iran’s Space Research Center will sign a contract to jointly design and build a communications satellite to be named Nahid 2 (Venus 2 in Persian).
A…
A newly-revamped website hamkhoone.com looks to facilitate the house-hunting process for users. According to the local tech website webna.ir, Hamkhoone, meaning roommate in Persian, is the first…
Iran moved to fourth generation (3/4G) mobile and home Internet in 2015. But that broadcasting technology is becoming a thing of the past and will be superseded by another next-…
The first startup accelerator center focused on Information and Communication Technology was inaugurated in Isfahan’s Science and Technology Town.
The accelerator known as Axell was…
Samsung Electronics’ profits leaped in the fourth quarter, it said Tuesday, despite the humiliating Galaxy Note 7 recall that hammered the reputation of the world’s largest smartphone maker.
A deal is being negotiated with South Korea’s Samsung company to use Iranian handicraft for decorating phones, said the head of the Trade and Export Bureau of Iranian Handicrafts affiliated to…
Production of video games in Iran is on the rise, growing 35% in the past 11 months, chief executive officer of Iran Computer and Video Games Foundation said Monday.
“The operations of 2000…
According to reports in the foreign media, the little flip phone is to make a comeback in 2017. According to several patent filings in the US, South Korea, Japan and China, the world’s tech…
The first Tehran Game Conference will be held April 29-30 under the auspices of the Iran Computer and Video Games Foundation in collaboration with the US deal making event for the video games…
British fashion retailers will switch their spending firepower to technology from the high street in 2017 after online shopping became the key driver of sales growth over the all-important festive…
A startup data bank is being finalized with the help of major stakeholders in the startup ecosystem, said the head of Iran's ICT Startups Empowerment and Facilitation Center.
Iran Post, the state-owned national post office of Iran, has released a new app on cross-device app on the official Windows app store on January 21. The app allows users to track their post on…
Russia is willing to sell Elbrus computer central processor units to Iran, the Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov said in a meeting with Iran’s deputy telecoms minister.…
The government in Kazakhstan plans to force internet users to register on websites with their mobile phones if they wish to post comments, the deputy head of the communications and information…
Mobile phone users across the globe are increasingly turning to app-based transactions for their daily tasks according to a new report by a respected application analytics company.
Iran and Sri Lanka signed a memorandum of understanding to promote technological collaboration. Iran’s vice president for science and technology, Sorena Sattari, met Tuesday with Susil…
The local tech firm Media Pardazesh was announced as the official partner of Huawei for the year 2017 in Iran.
The announcement was made on Thursday at a press conference held at…
Open markets and global trade have been blamed for job losses over the last decade, but global CEOs say the real culprits are increasingly machines.
