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The Finnish telecommunications equipment manufacturer Nokia provides Ukraine with 5,000 routers. This was announced by the Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov. ‘We have the first results of cooperation. After February 24, we received 1,770 routers from Nokia, which provide shelter schools with Internet. The second batch of 3,230 routers will arrive soon. They will […]
In the summer of last year, Ukraine announced the launch of the Starlink satellite Internet service in trains. Now Ukrzaliznytsia has announced the completion of testing, which means that Starlink will soon appear in UZ trains. Currently, the test equipment is installed on only one Intercity+ high-speed train, which runs on different routes. During testing […]
Russian special services are recruiting children in Ukraine using mobile games. They are trying to get information about strategic objects from them. Oleksiy Reznikov reported this on Twitter. The head of the Ministry of Defense listed in the thread the violations committed by the Russian army against the rules of warfare laid out in the […]
‘Ukrzaliznytsia’ received 100 powerful charging stations for smartphones, which will be installed at stations with the largest passenger traffic. The first stations have already taken place in the Kyiv Fortress of Invincibility. As you can see in the photo below, these stations are quite massive and look like cabinets with separate cells, where there is […]
Russian users faced the impossibility of opening the news aggregator Google News on the territory of the Russian Federation. When they try to log in, they are shown a loading window. At the same time, the aggregator itself does not load. According to RIA Novosti, users see a message about the impossibility of accessing the […]
Xiaomi continues to improve the features available to MIUI users. One of these innovations allows you to earn money using a Xiaomi smartphone. The app store update in MIUI 14 adds an opportunity to earn extra money if you’re a developer, designer, or computer enthusiast. In the V5.5.58 update, Xiaomi added the ability for users […]
Android 14 may require smartphones to support AV1 video decoding. This codec significantly reduces traffic consumption when watching online video. In some cases, a video compressed with AV1 can ‘weigh’ half as much as a video compressed with today’s popular codecs. AV1 is a codec developed by the Alliance for Open Media. It is a […]
Russian mobile operators were unable to agree with Apple on the support of VoLTE and VoWiFi functions on their networks for iPhone 14 phones. This is reported by ‘Kommersant’. These functions improve the quality of communication, and VoLTE calls account for more than 60% of voice traffic in large Russian cities. Also, high-quality voice transmission […]
Twitter has announced that its paid users can now upload 60-minute videos. These videos can be in 1080p resolution and must have a file size of up to 2 GB. This option is available when downloading from PC, iOS or Android still has previous limits. Prior to the innovation, users of paid Twitter Blue accounts […]
The exit from the Russian market of telecommunications equipment manufacturers Nokia and Ericsson at the end of the year may paralyze the mobile networks of the Russian Federation, causing the deterioration of communication for ordinary Russians. This was reported by Reuters with reference to high-ranking executives of telecommunications companies and other sources in the industry. […]