Category: Tech

Kathmandu: Telephone and broadband internet services will be expanded in all municipalities and wards across the country. For this, an agreement has been reached between the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration and Nepal Telecom. On behalf of the Ministry, Joint Secretary Dr. Gopi Krishna Khanal and Managing Director of the company Dilli Ram… Continue reading Nepal Telecom to expand telephone, broadband internet service in all municipalities and wards

Kathmandu: Madan Krishna Shrestha and Haribansha Acharya have been appointed as brand ambassadors of Nepal Telecom. The agreement was signed at a program organized at the Nepal Telecom Central Office today. On behalf of Nepal Telecom, Managing Director Dilli Ram Adhikari and artists Madan Krishna Shrestha and Haribansha Acharya and media coordinator of the artist… Continue reading Maha Jodi became brand ambassador of Nepal Telecom

Kathmandu: Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI) has made public the app and website of ‘Make in Nepal – Swadeshi’ campaign . CNI President Bishnu Agrawal informed that the app and website have been made public to expand industrialization and create employment in Nepal. He said the app and website will help more and more entrepreneurs… Continue reading App and website of ‘Make in Nepal-Swadeshi’ made public

LONDON (AP): Instagram on Tuesday launched a feature that urges teenagers to take breaks from the photo-sharing platform and announced other tools aimed at protecting young users from harmful content on the Facebook-owned service. The previously announced “Take A Break” feature encourages teens to stop scrolling if they have been on the social media platform… Continue reading Instagram launches tool urging teens to take a break

WASHINGTON (AP): The elite Russian state hackers behind last year’s massive SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign hardly eased up this year, managing plenty of infiltrations of U.S. and allied government agencies and foreign policy think tanks with consummate craft and stealth, a leading cybersecurity firm reported Monday. On the anniversary of the public disclosure of the SolarWinds… Continue reading Report says Russian hackers haven’t eased spying efforts

Kathmandu (Rashtriya Samachar Samiti): The government has revoked the license of Nepal Satellite Pvt. Ltd. (Hello Nepal). A meeting of the Board of Directors of the Nepal Telecommunication Authority (NTA) held last Friday has decided to revoke the license given to Hello Nepal saying that the outstanding amount has not been paid. After failing to… Continue reading Govt revoked the license of ‘Hello Nepal’

Kathmandu: Xiaomi has launched Mi Portable Electric Air Compressor and the new Mi Air Purifier 3.The Mi Portable Electric Air Compressor is a pocket-sized device to inflate flat tyre of car, motorbike or even a bicycle anytime, anywhere without the need of an external power supply and Mi Air Purifier 3 is the latest in… Continue reading Xioami launches Mi Portable Electric Air Compressor and Mi Air Purifier 3 in Nepal

Kathmandu: It has been revealed that Nepal Telecom has used ‘974’ range number in the mobile service (Global System of Mobile Communication (GSM)) without permission. After the range of 98 was ‘occupied’, the telco had started giving GSM number in the range of 97. However, the Nepal Telecommunication Authority (NTA) has instructed not to do… Continue reading NTA direct Nepal telecom not to use new number range

(BBC): Tesla drivers say they have been locked out of their cars after an outage struck the carmaker’s app. Dozens of owners posted on social media about seeing an error message on the mobile app that was preventing them from connecting to their vehicles. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk personally responded to one complaint from… Continue reading Tesla drivers left unable to start their cars after outage

PARIS (AP): Internet giants, including social media apps Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, joined several world leaders to issue a global call to better protect children online at a Paris summit on Thursday. The call, initiated by France and the U.N. child protection agency UNICEF, acknowledges that “in the digital environment, children can come across… Continue reading Leaders in Paris call for protecting children online