The use of video calling apps has grown over the past few years, especially during the pandemic when telecommuting became a mainstream model and communication between people became online.

The company intends to extend the beta to Android developers later this year.

Interested developers, regardless of size, can sign up for the beta through T-Mobile’s DevEdge developer platform. Developers in the Seattle area will have the added benefit of joining T-Mobile engineers at the 5G Hub to test and validate this cutting-edge capability in their applications.

T-Mobile plans to expand network coverage to 300 million people by the end of the year.

If this doesn’t happen, there’s a good chance that any effort to succeed will be delayed or worse – abandoned. To avoid this, it can be useful to identify which skills make someone stand out as a technology leader.

Today, we’ve chosen to present some skills that show tech leaders are looking to the future, according to The Enterprisers Project.

Inspiring others
Harvesting innovation requires changing how teams plan, think, and act. Inspiring others is key to encouraging teams to think differently. This is a challenge, as most organizations create barriers to change – opting for minor incremental improvements versus leapfrog breakthroughs. Inspirational technology leaders create teams that challenge the status quo, risk failure, and seek continuous learning to unlock innovation.

Inspirational leadership is a continuous activity. Future-ready technology leaders keep teams motivated and progressing toward a shared goal through committed action.

Storytelling
Once teams are motivated to create change, the next step is moving the entire organization toward the transformation goals. To achieve this cross-organization momentum, today’s technology leader must be a strong storyteller. A leader’s ability to connect the purpose of a transformation with each member of the organization is critical to help everyone see themselves as part of the journey.

All transformations require team members to learn new skills and possibly take on new roles in the future. This can be a challenge for many team members if they are successful in their current role and do not see the need to change. Being a storyteller helps team members envision themselves being successful at the end of the transformational journey.

Decisiveness
Teams look to leaders to be decisive. As the pace of change quickens, it is even more critical for technology leaders to build confidence through decision-making, and most do not. With abundant choices and decisions, most technology leaders adopt a wait-and-see approach out of concern that making the wrong decision can hurt the team. However, with a timely decision based on the best information available, teams can accelerate progress.

Flexibility
Decisiveness by itself is not enough. A strong technology leader needs to operate with flexibility. The pace of change is no longer linear, and leaders have less time to assess and understand every aspect of a decision. Consequently, decisions are made faster and are not always the best ones. Realizing which decisions are not spot-on and being able to adapt quickly is an example of the type of flexibility a leader needs.

Developers can take advantage of the performance and security capabilities in Rust to create software for IoT devices and other embedded systems that may be the target of botnets and other malware.

The move by tech giant Microsoft, which introduced the idea back in June 2022, coincides with Google’s decision that it will support third-party Rust libraries in its open-source Chronium project. Like Microsoft, Google highlighted the security features in the programming language.

“Rust and Azure Sphere are a good match – a programming language that can improve safety of code with strict compile time safety checks alongside Azure Sphere’s secure identity, update, and end-to-end encrypted communication services for internet-connected devices should provide greater security to the customer applications,”

Akshatha Udayashankar, an embedded software engineer at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post.

Azure Sphere includes built-in security features for Internet-connected devices and consists of hardware built on chips from MediaTek and a Linux-based operating system. It also includes cloud-based Azure Sphere Security Services (AS3), which creates a secure connection between devices and the Internet or cloud.

AS3 provides secure boot, device identity authentication, software trust, and device certification that works with trusted code. Thanks to it, Microsoft can securely download updates to the Azure Sphere operating system and apps to devices.

The Microsoft blog explains that Rust strives to make code safe and code fast. Zero-cost abstractions ensure that higher-level features are compiled into low-level code as quickly as code is written by hand. Checks performed by the Rust compiler ensure stability by adding features and refactoring. This contrasts with legacy code in languages without these checks, which is riskier and requires more careful attention, review, and testing.

Like other Azure Sphere applications, those now built in Rust are expected to be fully functional in 2031, regardless of security patches, fixes, and new features added to Azure Sphere OS by then. Rust can be very efficient, but by including many dependencies in the application itself, in some cases it may be necessary to evaluate how a Rust implementation uses memory compared to a C-language application.

SmartRouting connects legacy messaging channels like fax to interoperable messaging systems like blockchain-audited encrypted file transfer, allowing users to make the transition in their own time, without being in sync with every other organization in the healthcare industry, according to a press release.  Bradley Davis, CEO of Notifyre said:

“Despite the well-known challenges of fax technology, the healthcare industry retains a deep reliance on this traditional data distribution method.”

Notifyre users can register for a Stirdie Digital ID, which functions as a unique identifier to link existing messaging channels like fax to new technologies such as digital file transfer.

Stirdie Digital ID holders must complete a verification process before being connected to the network to ensure their legitimacy.

SmartRouting assesses whether the recipient has a fax receive number connected to a Stirdie Digital ID when sending a fax. If connected, the option to send using digital file transfer becomes available.

All messages sent between Stirdie Digital IDs are audited with their transactions stored on the blockchain, providing an immutable history of the message.

“Chemaxon has a great reputation globally. Following on from my work in Lab of the Future, I am excited about the opportunity to take data in science and technology and use it to do amazing things, together with our expert team and our expanding range of users. We have great plans for the coming years, and we will be reaching out to our customers shortly to share them.”

Chemaxon’s founder and outgoing CEO, Ferenc “Csizi” Csizmadia, steps down after almost 7 years at the helm of the company he founded 24 years ago, noted in a press release. Ferenc Csizmadia said:

“We have worked closely with Richard to align strategy and culture, in order to ensure Chemaxon’s continued success. I have all confidence in his ability to take the company further, and look forward to seeing the company grow and flourish under his leadership.”

Csizi keeps his role as Founder and moves on to found Ancestralize, focusing on health and well-being in the digital age.

The appointment coincides with Chemaxon Budapest offices moving to Váci Greens, a newly built eco-conscious office park on the eastern side of the Danube.

The ‘Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency’s bill goal is to create a facilitative framework for an official digital currency. It will  be issued by the Reserve Bank of India, and ban all private cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said earlier this month all democratic nations must work together to ensure cryptocurrency “does not end up in the wrong hands, which can spoil our youth”.

The law is due to be presented to parliament in the next session. Without providing further details, the parliament bulletin said It will allow exceptions to promote the underlying blockchain technology.

The government considered criminalising the possession, issuance, mining, trading and transference of crypto-assets earlier this year.