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STOCKHOLM: Sweden's Ericsson on Tuesday unveiled a subscription service for remote working in North America that would allow employees of small businesses to start working from home in minutes with access to licensed apps, cloud storage and security tools. The company, known for selling telecom equipment to phone companies, has been benefiting from the sale of 5G gear and is now looking to diversify into other business areas.A business customer can buy applications from a marketplace, access the platform from any device and would not need a dedicated IT technician to set up the system. Not only can one activate workers in minutes, they can decide which employees can get access to certain apps or capabilities, said Asa Tamsons, head of business area technologies and new businesses.And subscription starts at around $100 per employee, per month, she said.Ericsson has tied up with various companies to offer access to business applications such as Microsoft Office suite to cloud-based graphic design software.  » Read More

Bringing you quick updates on the tech space, policy making and digital rights from India and across the globe. Twitter rolls out Spaces through India Twitter has finally rolled out Twitter Spaces, it’s audio-based networking feature, to all its mobile users, both of Android and iOS, in India. Twitter said it is still working on the ability to bring the feature to its desktop website. Spaces is a direct competitor to Clubhouse. Twitter announced its entry into the space in March, when it started rolling out the feature to beta users. Twitter Spaces has already gotten quite popular in India, since Clubhouse continues to be an invite-only app only for iOS users. Twitter’s sizeable user base in India — around 1.75 crore — has surely helped engagement. Top stories on MediaNama The Fake Loan App Scandal Is Not Going Away Anytime Soon Don’t Clamp Down On Citizens Seeking COVID-19 Help On Social Media, Supreme Court Tells States Exclusive: Centre Allows State Govts,  » Read More

Sometimes small updates have big smiles associated with them. This time Instagram has come up with a small update to its app but users are really happy about it. Now Instagramers will be able to Turn Off video or sound in Instagram Live Rooms. The photo-sharing app has taken one feature from both Zoom and Clubhouse, so users will be able to turn off the sound like Zoom and switch off a video like Clubhouse. Don’t want to show your Face? Now Turn off your Video in Instagram Live Rooms For those who do not know about Instagram Live Rooms, these were launched in March helping people to communicate with a group of people, throwing away their Covid related stressful worries. While telling about Live rooms, Instagram said: “By giving people the option to mute their audio or turn off their video, hosts will have added flexibility for their Livestream experience, as the added functionality could help decrease pressure to look or sound a certain way while broadcasting live. This feature gives creators a “quick,  » Read More

Image: Instagram via ETX Daily Up Instagram has launched two new functions in its application, letting users take a breather right in the middle of a Live broadcast. Whether muting the audio or the video, users can now cut the mic or the camera during a livestream, functions that echo the options in Clubhouse. Could audio-only livestreams be the next big thing for Instagram influencers? Instagram unveiled two new user functions, April 29. Via channels including its official Twitter account, the Facebook-owned social network said it hoped to “normalize not always being ‘on'” by allowing users to mute their mic or camera during live broadcasts. These new functions will give users the option of switching off their mic or camera, even if they’re already streaming live on the platform. If a user no longer wants to share their image with followers, then their profile photo is displayed instead, a handy function for dealing with the unexpected while broadcasting live. “We want to build on our Live product and offer even more ways for our creator community to drive serendipitous,  » Read More

Nairobi — The Mohamed Amin Foundation is excited to announce the genesis drop of NFTs from their archive. After years of frame-by-frame cataloging and digitization, the Mohamed Amin Collection is opening its doors for exploration and exhibition to the public through the power of NFTs. The archive includes over 5,000 hours of video content and 2.5 million still photographs gathered between 1955-1996, representing one of the world’s greatest unexplored historical artifacts. It includes unique, high quality documentation of the events surrounding post-colonial Africa, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Our mission is to share this body of work with the global public as a way to stimulate dialogue about Africa and Africans, as well as leverage the new monetization models, introduced by Web3, to create funding for African artists. The impact of this NFT drop will go beyond serving as an example for how cultural organisations can utilise their archive. We also aim to change the way African history is taught and appreciated across the world. “We’re excited to leverage this new Web3 technology in a way that can catalyze global conversations about Africa’s rich and cultured history”,  » Read More

Earlier this year, Adam Broomberg, a Johannesburg-born artist living in Berlin, phoned Matthew Krouse, a former actor turned writer and editor, with a request. It didn’t involve Yiddish translation work.  “People seem to think I am Isaac Bashevis Singer, which I’m not,” says Krouse, who was born into a Jewish family from Germiston in 1961. He grew up speaking Yiddish with his mother and has previously helped Broomberg with translations. “I won’t ever win a Nobel prize for writing in Yiddish,” he insists in reference to the Polish-American writer’s 1978 accolade.  Broomberg revealed his reason for calling Krouse in increments. He started out by asking if he knew about Clubhouse, the social-media app used to host audio chats. Krouse, a man of uncommon creative accomplishments in performance and publishing, responded no. Nonplussed, Broomberg recruited him into a chat about nonfungible tokens (NFTs), cryptographic units of data used to verify the uniqueness of ephemeral digital and video art. Krouse uses piquant language to describe this new-fangled technology.  » Read More

If this insane outbreak of Covid-19 hasn’t taken our lives or those of our loved ones as yet, it certainly has got us addicted to technology. Our offices and schools are run on Zoom, OTT platforms entertain us, Twitter has been allowing us to hold our leaders accountable or amplify our emergencies, while Instagram offers us a reminder of times when we dressed up and hung out. Clubhouse, launched in the USA in March 2020, only arrived in India in 2021. It’s an invite-only platform for iPhone users where you get to attend rooms of people speaking on a spectrum of subjects or follow clubs on topics you prefer. The rooms are intimate, with as few as two people in them and as many as 5,000. You can listen and speak to celebrities such as Elon Musk and Kanye West, share ideas and ask questions. You can also host your own room on issues you choose.Clubhouse has already been valued at US $4 billion and has 10 million downloads. In another three weeks, they will open to Android users,  » Read More

Visual artist Drue Kataoka prefers getting in on the ground floor of any new social media endeavor.“I love getting involved with emerging platforms, because I feel like when they’re new, they still have a lot of creative malleability and spark in them,” she tells The Japan Times from her studio in California’s Silicon Valley.Born in Tokyo, Kataoka was an early user of Facebook, Twitter and, most recently, the audio app Clubhouse, where she says she was among the first 1,000 people onboard after it launched in the spring of 2020. In the year since, she has amassed over 705,000 followers, established The Art Club space and has spearheaded various social justice-oriented causes on the app, including a #StopAsianHate campaign and fundraiser that raised more than $88,000 in the wake of increased violence against Asian Americans in the United States. Striking up a conversation: The Clubhouse app uses portraits of its members for its icon. Now appearing on your phones is Tokyo-born artist Drue Kataoka.  » Read More

The extroverts love to jump on the app to just shoot the schmooze with whoever's online. The introverts are more directed, and will join a room or speak ...  » Read More

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