Here's a trick question: where is Europe's spaceport? Answer: It's in Europe. Right? Well, yes. But actually … not quite. You see, "Europe's spaceport," as it is indeed sold, is in French Guiana. Technically, that is in Europe. French Guiana is a French colony, making it a European, or EU, jurisdiction - which is great if you happen to be there on a European cell phone plan because EU Roaming applies. Yeah! But geographically, the Guiana Space Centre is in South America, right next door to Brazil.

Britain on Wednesday announced plans for consumers to pay a deposit on plastic bottles as part of a broader push to tackle pollution. The government will introduce a charge on plastic, glass and metal single use drinks containers sold in England, the environment ministry said.

Vodafone Egypt topped the list of telecommunications companies with the fastest growing revenues in 2017. According to sources in the communications sector, the Vodafone Egypt s revenue growth reached 19%, while Etisalat came second with 18%, followed by Orange with 6%. Vodafone Egypt topped the list of most profitable telecom companies, with a profit growth rate of 45% in 2017, versus 44% in 2016.

Etisalat Egypt continued to lose more of its customers in similar fashion to recent months. The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) report, showing data from December, showed that the company has lost nearly 500,000 clients to other competitors. According to the report, the number of Etisalat Egypt s customers declined from 23.1 million in November to 22.6 million in December.

As the Facebook crisis has escalated in recent days, calls for user account deletion have increased due to disclosure of data from more than 50 million users to Cambridge Analytica. If you think of meeting the Facebook boycott call and believe there is no alternative, read this report as Al-Masry Al-Youm lists some social networks, messaging applications, and news aggregators that you can rely on as an alternative to Facebook.

Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologized on Wednesday for mistakes his company made in how it handled data belonging to 50 million of its users, and promised tougher steps to restrict developers access to such information. The world s largest social media network is facing growing government scrutiny in Europe and the United States. This follows allegations by a whistleblower that British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed users information to build profiles on American voters that were later used to help elect US President Donald Trump in 2016.

Sure. Take that quiz about which hair-metal band is your spirit animal. Share a few snaps of your toddler at the beach and watch the likes pile up. Comment on that pointed political opinion from the classmate you haven’t seen since the Reagan administration. Just remember that your familiar, comforting online neighborhood — the people you care about most and those you only kinda like — exists entirely on a corporate planet that’s endlessly ravenous to know more about you and yours.

The Egyptian Company for Silicon Industries (Sico Egypt) managed to sell 50,000 units of its new Nile X phone. According to the CEO of the company, Mohamed Salem, the company is targeting sales of 1.3m units before the end of the year.

Jumia aims to increase its sales of mobile phones to 80,000 devices during its “Mobile Week” discounts, up from 30,000 during last year s week, according to Karim Ahmed, the company s e-marketing director. Ahmed said the company expects 10m website visits during the week, where it is offering discounts in partnership with Samsung, Xiaomi, Sico, and Soda.

The Communications and Information Technology Committee in Egypt’s House of Representatives last week discussed 27 articles of a draft law proposed by the government to combat cyber crimes, and is scheduled to continue deliberations this week. The committee agreed to amend definitions contained in Article 1 of the law, most prominently was the definition of the protection of personal data so that e-commerce companies adopt an information system that shows the source and destination of communications, the sender, route, time, date, volume, duration and the type of service in operation.

Celebrating International Women s Day, Truecaller released a report on receiving unwanted calls and reporting them based on gender. The results of the report showed that women around the world block 19% more unwanted calls than men. In Egypt, women receive unwanted calls 30% more than women in other regions. Egyptian women are 26% more likely to block these calls compared to men.

Samsung released an infographic chart showing a timeline of development of smartphone cameras. Daily News Egypt reviews the timeline spanning 18 years of Samsung innovation. Samsung s first camera phone, model SCH-V200 was released in South Korea in 2000. The phone allowed people to take up to 20 photos, equipped with a 0.35 MP camera.

Minister of Communications and Information Technology Yasser El-Kady said that some applications downloaded on smartphones and computers are an opportunity for “terrorists” to know the data of persons who use the application and all of their relatives and coworkers. During a workshop entitled “Facing the promotion of terrorist ideology and countering it”, organised by the Ministry of Justice, El-Kady said that he does not use the Truecaller app is it reveals all the information of its users. “I have the minister of justice s number on my mobile; the app will give away the number to anyone with access to my phone,” he added.

Egypt’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Yasser al-Qadi said on Monday that Egypt is taking concrete steps towards establishing a social networking platform similar to Facebook, without however providing any further details regarding the project. He explained that the period after the January 25 revolution in 2011, but more so recently, has witnessed a great deal of interaction between citizens through social media.

Government-owned Telecom Egypt has allegedly been redirecting internet users to crypto mining sites, or displaying ads to secretly gain money, according to a report published by security researchers at the University of Toronto on Friday. According to the report titled, “Bad Traffic: Sandvine’s PacketLogic Devices Used to Deploy Government Spyware in Turkey and Redirect Egyptian Users to Affiliate Ads?,” researchers revealed that “deep packet inspection (DPI) middleboxes” are used to reportedly “hijack Egyptian internet users’ encrypted web connections en masse, as well as divert the users to revenue generating content like affiliate ads and browser cryptocurrency mining scripts,” the report said.

Mona al-Khodairy dreamed of breaking the long-held practice in Egypt of restricting certain jobs to men. Her dream evolved into an even bigger goal: to give women new employment opportunities. While playing a vital role in safeguarding the environment. Khodairy, a graduate from the Faculty of Engineering in Assiut, launched a startup, Ecotaqa, at age 26. It aimed to help solve the problem of energy shortages and solid waste management in Egypt by expanding biogas production. The technique uses organic materials from agricultural waste and animal manure, breaking them down in the absence of oxygen to produce an energy that can be used as cooking gas.

Samsung announced its new flagship phones, the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+, at the end of February during the Mobile World Congress, which was held in Barcelona and concluded two days ago. The company set the fourth week of this month as the date for officially launching the smartphones in Egypt, according to a company official. According to a Samsun official speaking to Daily News Egypt, the company has now made pre-booking of the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ available in cooperation with a number of major sales chains such as Raya and B.Tech, in addition to a number of e-commerce sites.

Telecom Egypt (TE) announced its financial results for the year 2017, according to consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with Egyptian accounting standards. The company achieved unprecedented financial and operational performance, especially after the successful launch of its WE mobile network. The company s total consolidated revenues for the fiscal year (FY) that ended on 31 December 2017 amounted to EGP 18.6bn, a 33% increase over the previous year. The increase is 13%, adjusting for exchange rate differences. Profit before interest, tax, and depreciation reached EGP 5.2bn, up by 36% from last year, and marking a profit margin of 28%. The net profit after taxes amounted to EGP 3.2bn compared to EGP 2.7bn in 2016, reflecting a growth rate of 18% with a profit margin of 17%.

Egypt s Communication and Mobile Syndicate (CMS) threatened to sue the three mobile network operators (MNOs)—Vodafone, Etisalat, and Orange—if they do not compensate mobile phone retailers after the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) banned sales of new mobile lines through distributors as of March. The syndicate has granted the three MNOs a grace period until 20 March to settle the issue before it takes legal measures against them.

Minister of Communications and Information Technology Yasser El-Kady is set to inaugurate a fibre optics factory in Badr city on Tuesday. The plant is owned by HitekNofal Solutions and the Chinese Hengtong Group with investments up to $15m. An informed source at HitekNofal Solutions said that the plant will be established on three stages, the first of which would involve investments of $15m. The total investments spanning the three phases amount to $30m with a production capacity of 8,000 kilometres of cable per year.