Hong Kong government will provide electronic identity (eID) service for local residents from 2020. The initiative will allow Hong Kong residents to use a single digital identity and authentication to ...More
EJ Insight2019-04-11
During a recent trip to Beijing, I ran into an old friend from the telecoms industry. We had dinner together and talked about how Hong Kong is falling behind other mainland Chinese cities in fintech. ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-28
Credit card fraud has been a problem for a long time. With many online shopping websites such as those of online travel agencies and airlines getting hacked and customer data stolen, the situation per ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-20
The latest Mobile World Congress (MWC) held in Barcelona shows that the era of 5G is finally upon us. Most mobile producers, including Samsung, LG, Huawei, ZTE, Sony, HTC, and Xiaomi, have launched th ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-05
The United States is bent on crushing Huawei Technologies. It is lobbying allies not to use the Chinese telecommunications giant's 5G equipment, which it claims will open them to espionage or even cyb ...More
EJ Insight2019-03-01
Hong Kong government announced last week that it would terminate analogue television services on November 30, 2020. This move will affect around 180,000 TV viewers. Why the sudden decision? The way I ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-20
... Lan Kwai Fong in Central. We invited people to do the squat challenge with our app, and they were really enjoying it! Q: Can you explain briefly how Lympo Squat works? A: Lympo Squat, also known as " ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-15
Hong Kong government has been actively pushing technology development and innovation. That has inspired many young people to start their own businesses and become entrepreneurs. When one starts his or ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-13
... Francis Fong Po-kiu, honorary chairman of the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation, said the plan to switch off analogue TV services for good comes too late and, as such, allows no spectrum f ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-12
The 8K resolution television and 5G were the two main themes of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last month. The 8K resolution TV was first launched at CES in 2012, but lacked software ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-08
Google has received a fine of nearly 44 million euros from France’s privacy regulator for breaching the EU’s data protection rules. Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés（CNIL), the Fr ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-30
Looking back at a video of Steve Jobs unveiling the first iPhone on January 9, 2007, one is reminded that the Apple smartphone was at that time a path-breaking product in terms of design, interface, a ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-25
The Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) said last week that over 80 government bureaus and departments had published their first annual open data plans before the end of 2018. A ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-18
... o Chapman Fong Sui-man, general manager of Terminal 1, four biometric gates that support face recognition will be installed at some boarding gates starting from the beginning of 2020, before such faci ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-11
Hongkongers who shop on Taobao had various payment tools such as AlipayHK, Octopus, PPS, JETCO and credit cards to settle their transactions. But from the start of this year, they can only use AlipayH ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-08
If you ask me to pick just one major issue in a review of 2018, I would recommend privacy-breach incidents as the key topic. Popularity of internet and social media have come at the cost of people's p ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-02
When will the US-China trade war end? No one has a crystal ball. But the trade war has certainly entered a new stage. From imposing a ban on exports to ZTE Corp. to the arrest of Huawei chief financ ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-19
Secretary for Innovation and Technology Nicholas Yang Wei-hsiung said in a radio interview that the Smart Government Innovation Lab will be launched next year. The lab aims to promote government proc ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-14
... st year. Fong Kwing-wah, 45, had earlier pleaded guilty to the charges of dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-11
