Category: MOBILE

SpaceX, Rogers to Connect Mobiles Phones to Satellites in Remote Canadian Areas

Rogers Communications and Elon Musk’s SpaceX plan to connect mobile phones to satellite-based services aiming to expand coverage to remote areas in Canada, the companies said on Wednesday. The service, which will be delivered via the space company’s Starlink satellite network, will cover 4G and 5G phones starting with SMS text and will eventually expand…


Shen Yun Shows Younger Generation the Beauty of China

MOBILE, Ala.—For the younger generation growing up in the United States, the culture and customs of other countries are usually foreign and even difficult to understand. Shen Yun Performing Arts is presenting the best of China before communism to audiences. “I brought my daughter. I had no idea what to expect and I haven’t been…


Mayor of Mobile Says Shen Yun Is ‘Spectacular!’

MOBILE, Ala.—Sandy Stimpson, mayor of the city of Mobile, and his wife Jean Stimpson were delighted by Shen Yun at Mobile Civic Center Theater in Alabama on April 30. “It’s wonderful. It’s very inspiring. The costumes are beautiful. The dancing is splendid. It’s just a wonderful experience!” said Mayor Stimpson. In “one word,” he said, …


Mobile Opera Board Member: Shen Yun ‘Outstanding’

MOBILE, Ala.—Shen Yun, the classical Chinese dance phenomenon sweeping the globe, fascinated and impressed Charmein Moser. Ms. Moser is a musician, retired public school teacher, and member of the Board of Mobile Opera. She attended the performance in Mobile, Alabama, with Bruce Moser on the afternoon of April 30. “Many of our board members are very familiar…


Conservatives Ask Privacy Czar to Probe Pandemic Related Use of Mobile Location Data

OTTAWA—A Conservative MP is asking Canada’s privacy commissioner to investigate federal reliance on data from mobile devices to understand travel patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter to privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien, Tory MP John Brassard accuses the Public Health Agency of Canada of secretly using the pandemic to violate the privacy of Canadians….


Samsung Names New CEOs, to Merge Mobile, Consumer Electronics Units

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA—Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will merge its mobile and consumer electronics divisions, the firm said on Tuesday, naming new co-chief executives in the biggest reshuffle since 2017 to simplify its structure and focus on the logic chip business. Two co-chief executives, instead of three, will lead the South Korean firm as it pivots…


Canada Has No Choice but to Bar Huawei From 5G Mobile Networks, Security Experts Say

OTTAWA—As the Liberal government prepares to unfurl its policy on next-generation mobile networks, global security experts say all signs point to the exclusion of Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies from the long-awaited blueprint. The development of 5G, or fifth-generation, networks will give people speedier online connections and provide vast data capacity to meet ravenous demand as…