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• Nokia patent trolls Apple

  22-12-2016 13:30
  
  The residue of Nokia’s once-dominant handset division continues to show there’s life in the old dog yet.
  Apple, Nokia claims, uses its patented technology in some of its products and should therefore hand over some cash for the privilege. Apple apparently disagrees so Nokia has unleashed its slavering patent lawyers, who sprinted to regional courts in Germany and the US in their thirst for redress.
  So far there are 32 patents in suit across all of the actions, covering technologies s
  
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• UK recycles £440m BT bribe and thinks we should be grateful

  22-12-2016 11:24
  
  The UK government has had the nerve to repackage £440 million clawed back from BT for fixed-line investment as a ‘windfall’.
  Since most of that money is likely to be given back to BT to be less rubbish at rural broadband the metaphor would be more accurately described as a polite request to move the pile of apples we gave you slightly to the left.
  This is not new money. It has been ‘clawed back’ from the $1 billion or so handed over to BT back in 2013 to do what it
  
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• HUBER+SUHNER help provide accurate satellite navigation as EU project Galileo goes live

  22-12-2016 11:00
  
  Herisau, 22 December 2016. Project Galileo, a joint initiative of the EU and European Space Agency (ESA), has gone live, with global connectivity supplier HUBER+SUHNER on-board. The Switzerland-based company is supplying radio frequency components to the project, and following an extensive testing period and 17 years of development, the Galileo system went live last week with the aim to supply the world’s most accurate satellite navigation technology. Galileo provides better positioning na
  
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• Superfast broadband to reach 600,000 more rural homes

  22-12-2016 01:00
  BT releases £300m back into scheme designed to address digital divide
  
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