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• ARM and Intel declare war over IoT chips

  26-10-2016 17:53
  
  Chip rivals ARM and Intel have both announced major new IoT launches at exactly the same time, opening a new front in their long-running war.
  ARM classifies its Cortex-branded chip designs according to their relative size and power. ‘A’ stands for ‘application processors’ such as the ones that provide the brains in smartphones. ‘R’ stands for ‘realtime’ and tends to apply to communications processors such as those found in modems. ‘M’ s
  
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• How the Government’s broadband targets can be achieved, wirelessly

  26-10-2016 16:59
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third party professions to comment on the industry’s biggest challenges today. In this piece, Jaime Fink, co-founder of Mimosa, explains how wireless technologies can help meet the Government’s broadband expectations of 10 Mbps for all.
  Internet service providers (ISPs) in the UK are under increasing pressure from consumers, businesses and government bodies to deliver more ubiquitous, ‘superfast’ broadband. The government’s D
  
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• Google says Fibre is going so well it’s pausing it

  26-10-2016 13:56
  
  Google has decided that it’s doing so well with fibre that it needs to take a break and give everyone else a chance.
  That was the picture it tried to paint on its latest blog post – bizarrely entitled “Advancing our amazing bet”. The post was written by – spoiler alert – the now former CEO of Google’s Access division Craig Barratt, who said it’s all been a great journey and it’s doing so well and it’s on a great trajectory… so he
  
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• Google says Fiber is going so well it’s pausing it

  26-10-2016 13:56
  
  Google has decided that it’s doing so well with fibre that it needs to take a break and give everyone else a chance.
  That was the picture it tried to paint on its latest blog post – bizarrely entitled “Advancing our amazing bet”. The post was written by – spoiler alert – the now former CEO of Google’s Access division Craig Barratt, who said it’s all been a great journey and it’s doing so well and it’s on a great trajectory… so he
  
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• Apple in decline, but at least its phones don’t blow up

  26-10-2016 13:38
  
  Apple has released its Q3 2016 results which revealed another year-on-year revenue decline, but CEO Tim Cook can still take some comfort in knowing his phones are still allowed on planes.
  Revenue for the period was $46.9 billion, down 9% from 2015’s $51.5 billion, so the team will hardly be searching the back of the sofa for loose change, though it is the third consecutive quarter in which it has reported a year-on-year decline. The news was not unexpected, as the global sma
  
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• Ericsson appoints VC board member Börje Ekholm as CEO, market unimpressed

  26-10-2016 13:12
  
  It turns out Ericsson didn’t have to look to far to replace Hans Vestberg after appointing a long-time board member and representative of one of its biggest shareholders.
  Börje Ekholm is currently CEO of Patricia Industries, which is the part of venture capital company Investor AB that focuses on unlisted companies. He was previously CEO of Investor AB for ten years. Investor AB is the largest single shareholder in Ericsson and has 21.5% of its voting rights so it’s perhaps
  
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• Multi-cloud is the only way to meet data demands – Openstack Foundation

  26-10-2016 12:41
  
  Speaking at the Openstack Summit, the Openstack Foundation’s Executive Director Jonathan Bryce threw another buzzword into the mix for us to consider; multi-cloud.
  While the technology industry is seemingly awash with buzzwords and the latest trends, the Openstack Foundation has pinned its future on the development of a multi-cloud culture. While it may sound similar to a hybrid proposition, multi-cloud not only takes into account the different topologies, but also different vendor platfor
  
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• Southwark Council Brings Digital Courtroom Technology To The London Family Court

  26-10-2016 12:40
  
  With the aim of modernising court services, the London Borough of Southwark has successfully introduced paper-free Digital Courtroom (www.digitalcourtrooms.co.uk) technology to the London Family Court. The process, conducted in partnership with South London Legal Partnership, has gone from pilot to ‘go live’ in just over 6 weeks with the first cases already heard.The Digital Courtroom Solution is a complete software and service package, which provides all the necessary tools required
  
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• Vodafone gets away with just a £4.3 million fine for billing balls-up

  26-10-2016 12:29
  
  ­­­Like a naughty school child, Vodafone has been given a monumental bollocking by Headmaster Ofcom today, and walked out with a £4.6 million fine for being a very naughty boy.
  The fine comes from billing malpractice and generally being rubbish at dealing with complaints brought up by customers. We covered the intricacies of the Ofcom investigation earlier this year, but to recap:
  Ofcom launched two investigations.
  The first investigation found that more than 10,000 Vodafo
  
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• InfiNet Wireless Brings High-Speed Internet Connectivity to the Kazakhstan Railway Network

  26-10-2016 11:39
  
  Valletta-Malta –26 October 2016 – InfiNet Wireless, the global leader in fixed wireless broadband connectivity has today announced that they have successfully provided a wireless broadband network solution to the Kazakhstan Railway, the first of its kind within the region. The unique wireless link has been deployed as part of a pilot project connecting trains and railway stations in a single network covering the Astana to Borovoye section of the railway network. It provides passenger
  
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• Ericsson names Börje Ekholm as new chief executive

  26-10-2016 10:42 via ft.com
  Telecoms equipment maker reels from intense competition from Huawei and Nokia
  
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• IBM puts the inter in operable at Openstack Summit

  26-10-2016 10:04
  
  Openstack may not be considered the number one platform in the world currently, but IBM’s announcement at Openstack Summit this week has taken it one step forward.
  During the Austin edition of the conference in April, IBM’s Don Rippert set out a challenge to the community to demonstrate true interoperability across public, private and hybrid cloud by the end of October. Now we are in October, Angel Diaz, IBM’s VP Cloud Architecture & Technology, has confirmed the Interop Ch
  
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• Vodafone fined £4.6m for customer service failings

  26-10-2016 09:13 via ft.com
  Penalty is largest fine ever issued by telecoms watchdog Ofcom
  
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• Apple shifts focus to services business

  26-10-2016 07:32 via ft.com
  Executives look to App Store and content after iPhone sales decline hits results
  
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• Apple and Google hampered in luring Samsung buyers

  26-10-2016 03:41 via ft.com
  
  iPhone customers told they must wait up to eight weeks for new ‘Jet Black’ model
  
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• Vodafone fined £4.6m for poor customer service

  26-10-2016 02:00
  
  Telco apologises after Ofcom investigations reveal mis-selling, inaccurate billing, insufficient complaints handling procedures.
  
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• Google halts fibre rollout, plans job cuts

  26-10-2016 02:00
  
  Internet giant's head of access resigns; company expected to focus on point-to-point wireless tech instead.
  
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• Ericsson names Investor AB's Börje Ekholm as its new CEO

  26-10-2016 02:00
  
  Long-serving board member to take over from Jan Frykhammar on 16 January.
  
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• BT to replace London phone boxes with WiFi kiosks

  26-10-2016 02:00
  
  Ad-funded Links will also offer free calls, mobile device charging.
  
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• Apple pins hopes on holidays after fiscal Q4 revenue drops 8.9%

  26-10-2016 02:00
  
  Shipments of all Apple products decline as China slump continues.
  
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• MPs to probe plans for new emergency network

  26-10-2016 00:20 via ft.com
  Politicians and industry worry about 4G for ‘life and death’ services
  
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• Apple expects return to revenue growth in fourth quarter

  26-10-2016 00:10 via ft.com
  Boost from strong demand for iPhone 7 as services business grows rapidly
  
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