In recent months, the number of cellphones entering Iran through legal channels has more than doubled.
There has been a 160% year-on-year increase in the number of handsets entering the…
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Samsung’s representative in Iran started the presale of its latest flagship handset Galaxy S9 series in the country on Feb. 29.
Galaxy S9 and S9+ were unveiled during a press conference…
Following private sector pressure and a rise in public demand, import tariffs on laptops will be reduced to 5% in the coming months, the head of Tehran’s Information Technology Union announced.…
Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg sold nearly $500 million of the company’s shares in February to fund his philanthropic investment vehicle, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative,…
The Light Phone is a cellphone released last year with an interesting premise: strip away all the extraneous, distracting pieces of modern smartphones—like Internet, texting, email and…
Samsung, the dominant cellphone brand in Iran’s market, has been exempted from the mandatory Mobile Registry Scheme until the end of the Norouz (Iranian New Year) holidays that ends in…
The Sharif University of Technology held a job fair over the weekened at Goftogu Park north of Tehran.
According to the events website, 55 companies participated in the job fair…
The government-backed Innovation and Prosperity Fund (NSFund) will provide knowledge-based firms with business consultation to assist them in their work.
Every year, the world’s biggest smartphone manufacturers (apart from Apple) descend on Barcelona to announce their shiny new phones at Mobile World Congress.
The event officially runs…
With the unabashed rise of cryptocurrencies and growing public interest in the so-called digital money, Iran Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (Iran CERTCC) reports that some…
When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users’ iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center at the end of this month to comply with new laws there, Chinese authorities will have far easier access…
While officials claim that cellphone prices have dropped sharply, market observers dismiss the assertion saying that prices remain high.
Officials at the Telecoms Ministry in Tehran have…
A knowledge-based company located in Pardis Technology Park has obtained permits to produce anesthesia machines. CEO of Premier Electro Medical Care Company says his firm has received the…
As laptop prices skyrocket, Iran’s ICT Guild Organization has called on authorities to decrease import tariffs on the portable gadgets and other computer parts to help control prices and curb…
A phishing attack on Telegram users has been identified and stopped by the Iran Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center. A report published by the CERTCC details the attack by…
A team of engineers that worked on self-driving cars and helped invent Google Street View wants to help people guard their homes against intruders using the same style of facial recognition that…
SpaceX took a critical step Thursday toward making one of Elon Musk’s dreams a reality: the largest satellite network ever built, bringing high speed Internet to billions around the world.
In a bid to increase access to the Internet, the Communication Regulatory Authority introduced a mandatory landline Internet Fair Usage Policy last December. Now the ombudsman says it has…
Local firm Infogostar Company has introduced the budget cellphone BLU into the ever-expanding local market. The company launched an online sales service this week.
Operating under the…
New startup Cherahat (a mash-up word in Persian which means how easy) is an online home repairs provider launched in Mashhad. Founded by Hossein Rezaei, the platform offers wiring, plumbing,…
The tenth edition of Iran Web and Mobile Festival was held in Tehran over the weekend and the list of locally-developed apps and online services that won the 2018 IWMF awards was published.
Apple has released iOS 11.2.6, which includes a bug fix for the Indian language (Telugu) character that crashes an iPhone and makes apps like Messages, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp…
Intel has revealed that the company is facing at least 32 lawsuits over the Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws. “As of February 15, 30 customer class action lawsuits and two securities class action…
The chat app company Telegram filed documents with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to say it had raised $850 million from 81 investors before its planned Initial Coin Offering. …
Following the government’s belated policy of curbing cellphone smuggling, another phase of the so-called Mobile Registry Scheme went into effect Saturday with the Communication Regulatory…
