A report by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology showed that the number of mobile users increased by 0.01% in September compared to August, scoring 96.26 million users. The penetration of mobile services reached 108.5% of the total population.

We have all seen the pictures: Refugees who lost everything, but their clothes - and their mobile phones. Often when they get off the boat in Europe the first question is: "Where can I find water?" The second right afterwards: "Where can I find wifi?" Clinging to their mobile phones is crucial for surviving on the journey to Europe: To find the next water source or shelter, communicate with the human trafficker who promises the way out of misery and a path to a better place, to stay in touch with the family left behind and tell them that you are alive and well.

Full disclosure: I've been using Apple devices since the mid-1990s. My first was a grey plastic laptop with a 3.5 inch floppy drive. I am so locked-in, I think I must have thrown away the key myself. But I have an open mind. Which is good, because I've grown increasingly weary of the Cupertino mob's focus on consumer whizz-bangery. And its music app … aaah! Stop syncing what ain't there.

There's no doubt these are exciting times to be building new rockets and propulsion systems for space travel - "Unprecedented," says Casey Dreier, director of space policy at the Planetary Society. But so far most of that excitement has been felt in the US - not in Europe. There was a brief burst of commercial entrepreneurship in the early 1980s when the shuttle began to fly, Dreier says. Then, after the Challenger disaster, NASA pulled back from investing in commercial projects. Now, those projects are coming back.

Accusing TE Data of monopoly is nonsense, said Ahmed Osama, vice president and chief commercial officer of home and personal communications at Telecom Egypt and chairperson and managing director of TE Data.

You may often wonder: Is it my fault that I can't concentrate in an office with colleagues around me constantly chatting and talking on the phone? A new study shows that it's not. Background noise keeps you from thinking - particularly if these background noises are work-related conversations within earshot. That's what Japanese researchers say. A team led by Takahiro Tamesue, an associate professor at Yamaguchi University in Japan, had volunteers completing visual and auditory attention tests while listening to either "real" speech or voice-noises without any meaning.

German President Joachim Gauck awarded the three brains behind carbon concrete the German Future Prize for innovation on Wednesday. It is endowed with 250,000 euros ($264,000) . Worldwide, the building industry uses around 160 million tones of steel each year to reinforce concrete. In future, the advances made by winners Peter Offermann, Manfred Curbach and Chokri Cherif, the three Technical University of Dresden researchers behind the invention, could replace the use of steel in construction work for good.

Under the name “New information and communication technology leadership and digital empowerment”, the global company Huawei organised the first Broader Way Forum entitled “Enabling digital transformation”, in the presence of Minister of Communications and Information Technology Yasser Al-Qadi and Minister of Housing, Utilities, and Urban Communities Moustafa Madbouly, in addition to a number of company leaders and media figures.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi inaugurated the Cairo Information and Communications Technology (ICT) exhibition 2016 on Sunday.

Cisco Investments announced a first-time investment in Egypt with a $10m investment in Algebra Ventures to invest in start-ups and entrepreneurships. The news was announced during the Cairo ICT 2016.

The UK's drone code has been revised and updated to help pilots of the unmanned craft ensure they fly the gadgets safely.

San Francisco’s transport agency has been hit by a hack attack which led to customers being able to travel for nothing.

The US Navy is investigating a data breach after personal information of more than 130,000 sailors was accessed.

Black Friday bargain hunters are being courted by Google, which wants them to try out its latest search facility.

Facebook worked on special software so it could potentially accommodate censorship demands in China, according to a report in the New York Times.

The 13th Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), scheduled for 7 to 14 December, "will take audiences on an immersive and boundary-pushing journey of storytelling with an all-new Virtual Reality (VR) lineup titled DIFFerent REALITY, the organisers said in a press release

Google and Facebook moved Tuesday to cut off advertising revenue to bogus news sites, acting after criticism of the role fake news played in the US presidential election.

Various websites specializing in Samsung news and rumors report that the manufacturer has filed a patent at the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) that could be a sign of what's in store from the firm's upcoming folding smartphone, a product that's been in the pipeline for several years.

Google has denied the way it handles its Android mobile operating system is anti-competitive.

Yahoo has confirmed that it knew for two years that a "state-sponsored actor" had hacked into its network.

Recent cyber attacks harnessing everyday devices such as cameras, video recorders, printers, routers and speakers are a wake-up call to the hidden dangers of the Internet of Things.