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• Amazon answers calls of the hungry with first drone delivery

  14-12-2016 17:11
  
  Amazon has completed its first delivery via an unmanned drone to a customer in Cambridge ordering popcorn and an Amazon Fire TV (surprise, surprise).
  The delivery was made last week and while the drone was only in the air for 13 minutes, it was certainly a step forward for an idea which has been discussed at length in the industry. There are only two customers in the trial for the moment, though this will be expanded, as will the range of the deliveries in the coming months.
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• Rajant Appoints Geoff Smith Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing to Drive Global Expansion

  14-12-2016 17:05
  
  Move Comes as Company Adds Other New Employees, Opens Two Facilities to Manage GrowthPHILADELPHIA – December 14, 2016 – In order to meet the company’s growth trajectory, Rajant, the pioneer of innovative mobile mesh technology for private wireless networks, announced today the hiring of Geoff Smith as Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing, and Bernard Taliaferro as Channel Director. The company also opened facilities in Arizona and Kentucky, and added 20 employ
  
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• G.hn Market Adoption Takes Further Strides as New Products are Certified at HomeGrid Forum’s China Plugfest

  14-12-2016 15:00
  
  Six new products using three different silicon providers have achieved certification at the event in China: ARRIS, CIG, Comtrend, NetBit, Zinwell and ZTE Shanghai, China, December 14, 2016News highlights:HomeGrid Forum held a Plugfest event hosted by China Telecom Shanghai Research Institute in NovemberSix system vendors submitted G.hn products (operating over powerline and coax) for testing - all achieved certificationAllion Labs has now certified 19, Gigabit-capable productsProducts certified
  
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• KT kick-starts race to 5G finish line

  14-12-2016 14:32
  
  South Korean telco KT has announced it will complete the construction of a 5G network by September 2017 to prepare for a pilot service at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
  KT has made no secret of its intentions to exhibit the technology at the Winter Olympics, which will be taking place in PyeongChang during February 2018, though it might be considered a worrying sign for the rest of the industry. One of the supposed lessons learned from the implementation of 3G and 4G technologies was the need for the
  
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• UK government tries to talk tough on mobile infrastructure, yet again

  14-12-2016 14:28
  
  A new report commissioned by the UK government ‘slams UK 4G performance’ in an all too familiar display of opportunistic futility.
  In what has been an exceptional year for posturing, whinging and point-scoring over the UK telecoms landscape this report and subsequent press tour represents the icing on the cake. It was commissioned back in March from a government agency called the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC), which seems to have been created specifically to draft the repo
  
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• AWS data centres launch implies all is not well following Brexit

  14-12-2016 14:06
  
  Amazon Web Services has announced a new availability zone in London which indicates all is not well in the UK following Brexit.
  The new data centres creates the 16th availability zone worldwide for the public cloud leader, and is the first available in the UK. To date, customers in the UK would have primarily been served by assets in Ireland or Germany, though the move may suggest the Brexit vote is starting to impact businesses in the UK.
  Taken alone, this move implies very little, after a
  
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• AWS data centre launch implies all is not well following Brexit

  14-12-2016 14:06
  Amazon Web Services has announced a new availability zone in London which indicates all is not well in the UK following Brexit.
  The new data centre creates the 16th availability zone worldwide for the public cloud leader, and is the first available in the UK. To date, customers in the UK would have primarily been served by assets in Ireland or Germany, though the move may suggest the Brexit vote is starting to impact businesses in the UK.
  Taken alone, this move implies very little, after al
  
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• Microsoft tries to increase its artificial intelligence

  14-12-2016 13:00
  
  Software giant Microsoft has continued its diversification drive with the launch of a bunch of clever things loosely grouped into the artificial intelligence silo.
  While Microsoft had a slight fall from grace during the late 90s and 00s with the rise of more millennial-friendly technologies, its recent surge in the cloud computing market has put the giant firmly back in the top division. Cloud computing has positioned the vendor as a must-have for numerous CIOs around the world, and now the team
  
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• Medelinked Open Health Platform Now Features Medelinked Health Score

  14-12-2016 12:55
  
  Enhanced user interface makes getting key information and insights about individual health easierPCHA Connected Health Conference, Washington, DC, 14th December 2016 - Medelinked is a secure mobile and online health platform that empowers people to take control of their health, from building their health profile to discovering, connecting to and sharing their health and wellness information with their trusted healthcare providers.Demonstrated for the first time at PCHA Connected Health Conferenc
  
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• Gooligan: Malware is not the only problem

  14-12-2016 11:21
  
  Comment by Dennis Monner, CEO of German security specialist SecucloudHamburg, Germany. 14 December 2016 – Many users of Android mobiles have been alarmed by a recent warning that the Gooligan malware has infected over a million devices around the world, although only about 9 per cent of the victims are located in Europe. Gooligan targets the older versions 4 and 5 of the Android operating system – and is very successful doing so. That should...Source: RealWire
  
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• Dixons Carphone profits jump

  14-12-2016 10:51
  Sales rise more than 20% in Nordic and southern Europe markets
  
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• Italtel’s Transportable Data Centers Used by NATO for “Summer Tempest - Eagle Meteor 2016”

  14-12-2016 10:00
  
  Milan, December 14, 2016 – Italtel, a leading telecommunications company in Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), managed services and all-IP communication, today announced its transportable data centers at the NATO Rapid Deployable Corps Italy (NRDC – ITA) have been used for the first time during the “Summer Tempest - Eagle Meteor 2016” training exercise.The exercise, which brought together several armies from member countries of the Atlantic Alliance, was managed by t
  
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• Bolloré and Berlusconi play Mediaset cat and mouse

  14-12-2016 06:06
  Vivendi’s creeping acquisition of Italian media stake reflects Europe-wide ambitions
  
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• Virgin Media quiet on low-cost brand rumour

  14-12-2016 01:00
  Virgin Media declined to comment on Wednesday about a report that it plans to launch a low-cost brand next year.A report in the Telegraph over the weekend claimed the plan is being developed under the codename 'Project Prosecco'…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telia tweaks structure, names new Finland CEO

  14-12-2016 01:00
  Telia Company on Wednesday tweaked its management structure in a bid to speed up decision making and strengthen its focus on its key Nordic and Baltic markets.The regional management layer will be scrapped in favour of executives responsible for individual countries who report directly to group management…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Report urges UK govt to take responsibility for 5G, blasts patchy 4G coverage

  14-12-2016 01:00
  The U.K. government must take greater responsibility for driving the rollout of 5G networks, according to a report published on Wednesday, which slated the country's patchy 4G coverage.The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) claimed that the U.K. ranks 54th in the world in terms of 4G coverage, lagging less-developed economies including Albania, Panama and Peru."The typical user can only access 4G barely half the time…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Amazon opens first UK data centres

  14-12-2016 01:00
  Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched its first U.K. data centres, enabling its 100,000 U.K.-based customers to run applications and store corporate data locally.It is AWS's third European region; the other two are located in Germany and Ireland…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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