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• Microsoft Teams launches to take on collaboration segment

  02-11-2016 18:10
  
  Collaboration, unified communications and enterprise mobility are three trends which have partly powered the digital evolution, and now Microsoft has weighed in to capitalize on the buzz.
  Speaking in New York, CEO Satya Nadella announced the launch of Microsoft Teams, the company’s new collaboration platform, to create a digital office allowing teams to continually communicate irrelevant of where they are in the world. With the tools available to enterprise now, not necessarily Microsoft&r
  
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• Tata bust-up boosts hopes of DoCoMo settlement

  02-11-2016 17:14
  Long delayed decision over $1.2bn award for DoCoMo exit from Tata Teleservices
  
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• Tata boardroom bust-up boosts hopes of DoCoMo settlement

  02-11-2016 17:14
  Long delayed decision over $1.2bn award for DoCoMo exit from Tata Teleservices
  
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• Facebook blocks UK insurer from using its platform to set premiums

  02-11-2016 15:55
  
  Facebook has hit back at one of its advertisers who aimed to use information derived from user’s accounts to assess whether young people are insurable.
  Current Facebook guidelines allow organizations to use Facebook as a means to verify an individual’s identity, but the organization itself is not allowed to use information which it mines from the accounts. Admiral Insurance wanted to mine information from Facebook accounts to judge how insurable young drivers are. Users have to give
  
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• Facebook blocks UK insurer from mining data to set premiums

  02-11-2016 15:55
  
  Facebook has hit back at one of its advertisers who aimed to use information derived from user’s accounts to assess whether young people are insurable.
  Current Facebook guidelines allow organizations to use Facebook as a means to verify an individual’s identity, but the organization itself is not allowed to use information which it mines from the accounts. Admiral Insurance wanted to mine information from Facebook accounts to judge how insurable young drivers are. Users have to give
  
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• 1st Touch Launches iAppoint Scheduling For Social Landlords

  02-11-2016 14:37
  
  1st Touch (www.1sttouch.com), the UK’s leading system innovator for the social housing sector, has announced the launch of iAppoint. The all-new self-service module will help social landlords to streamline customer appointment scheduling by speeding up and enhancing the processes involved. In addition, as online services cost only a fraction of call centre responses, the potential cost savings for landlords are also significant.As iAppoint is linked to the landlord’s back office syst
  
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• Samsung takes spotlight off burning phones with $1bn chip investment

  02-11-2016 13:21
  
  If ever there was a need for a company to generate some positive headlines it is Samsung. The team has recently announced plans to invest $1 billion in its Austin, Texas, semiconductor factory during the first half of 2017.
  Although its smartphone business has been tearing chunks out of profits in recent months, the semiconductor unit is a bright spot as the industry ramps up chip production to meet demand for mobile and other electronic devices. Maybe this is where the Samsung PR team can gain
  
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• Huawei Operations Transformation Forum 2016 – Day 1

  02-11-2016 13:16
  
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• Mobile finally overtakes desktop for web usage

  02-11-2016 13:00
  
  Web traffic generated by mobile devices has finally overtaken desktops, according to numbers released by StatCounter.
  It was an inevitability, really – traffic generated by desktop has been on a downward curve for the last seven years, with mobile moving in the opposite direction, as you can see in the accompanying graphic. From last month, mobile now accounts for 51.3% of all web usage, with desktops making up the remaining 48.7%, apparently.
  That stat does seem slightly skewed, as the nu
  
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• Zylpha Partners with iManage

  02-11-2016 12:25
  
  Legal software innovator Zylpha (www.zylpha.co.uk) has announced a partnership with iManage, the leading provider of Work Product Management solutions for legal, accounting and financial services firms and the corporate departments they serve. Included under the terms of the partnership are Zylpha’s widely acclaimed bundling software and electronic signature integrations.Zylpha’s electronic bundling technology reduces the time taken to create document bundles from hours to minutes. T
  
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• Prysmian Group Improves Its Business Sustainability

  02-11-2016 12:24
  
  4th Place in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and Score B in CDP Italy Included in the STOXX® Global ESG Leaders Index and the Carbon Clean 200 Milan, 2 November 2016 - Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cables and systems industry, has improved its ranking in several international sustainability indices, thus receiving recognition for its commitment in all Corporate Social Responsibility segments.The Group has reported a significant improvement in the assessment...Sour
  
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• I’ve got a massive 5G for StarHub – Nokia

  02-11-2016 12:12
  
  Nokia has claimed it can deliver mobile broadband with an ultra-high speed of 4.3 Gbps and latency of just 1 millisecond, following a ‘live’ demonstration with StarHub in Singapore.
  While the industry should now be used to peacocking and posturing in the build up to 5G, Nokia has continued the trend. Like a freshman during his first week at university claiming to have the biggest thing you’ve ever seen in your life, it’s talk right now; the industry is still some time awa
  
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• Xiaomi and Lenovo climb in India's smart phone market as local players falter

  02-11-2016 11:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  India's smart phone market grew by over 20% year on year in Q3 2016 as shipments broke the 30 million mark. Click here for more.
  
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• Google Pixel XL Manufacturing Cost is in Line with Rival Smartphones

  02-11-2016 11:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  All told, the bill of materials cost for the new Google Pixel XL 5.5-inch phone with 32GB of NAND flash memory comes to $278, according to a preliminary teardown estimate Click here for more.
  
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• More than half of British adults plagued by scam calls on their mobile phones

  02-11-2016 11:17
  
  UK Leads Europe in Mobile Nuisance CallsLondon – 2 November 2016 More than half (53%) of adults in Britain regularly receive fraudulent or scam calls on their mobiles, according to online YouGov research from call-blocking and caller ID Company, Hiya (www.hiya.com).Scam calls are on the rise in the UK, which now gets more nuisance calls than any other country in Europe (13% of all calls), according to Hiya. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the research showed that nearly...Source: RealWire
  
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• 2016 Cloud VPN Survey Report

  02-11-2016 11:01
  
  The Cloud VPN Survey report is now available to download.
  This free report, published by Telecoms.com Intelligence, analyses and presents the findings of an in-depth questionnaire answered by 200 members of the telecoms industry involved with enterprise-grade telecoms networking today.
  Included in the report are three distinct areas related to the evolution of VPN technology, including:
  The role of SDN in providing scaleable VPN services
  Value Added Services
  Integration of third party solutions
  
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• IBM backs Watson as a fashionista

  02-11-2016 10:55
  
  With the Christmas period fast approaching everyone needs a bit of help with present ideas, and who better to help you buy presents for your nearest and dearest than the highly stylish IBM software engineers.
  IBM has announced its acquired the Expert Personal Shopper (XPS) division of Fluid, an e-commerce experiences and software company, to bring Watson into the world of personal shopping. The acquisition should not necessarily come as a huge surprise as the company is a strategic partner of Bi
  
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• Ericsson chief faces tough calls to correct course

  02-11-2016 06:07
  Börje Ekholm takes helm of telecoms group paying for its past complacency
  
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• Undersea cables spread data round the globe

  02-11-2016 05:02
  
  Technology that once captured Jules Verne’s imagination is more relevant than ever
  
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• Telia disappointed after Sweden cancels 700-MHz sale

  02-11-2016 01:00
  
  Government gives TV broadcasters until end of May 2018 to use frequencies while it evaluates their use for a public safety and defence network.
  
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• TDC ups guidance after completing transformation projects

  02-11-2016 01:00
  
  Danish incumbent reports 11.6% decline in third-quarter earnings.
  
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• Mobile worth $1trn to North America's economy by 2020

  02-11-2016 01:00
  
  GSMA study predicts industry will account for 4.5% of region's projected GDP by end of decade.
  
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• Broadcom swallows Brocade for $5.9bn

  02-11-2016 01:00
  
  Chip maker to divest Brocade's IP networking business, including recently-acquired Ruckus Wireless.
  
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