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• BT boss faces long road to rebuild investor trust

  27-01-2017 19:35
  Gavin Patterson promises further investigation into Italian accounting scandal
  
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• It seems that Apple’s Partnership on AI invitation got lost in the post

  27-01-2017 18:45
  
  Apple is the latest member of the tech community to be officially join the Partnership on AI as a ‘founding member’.
  The group itself was founded back in September with the aim of managing the development of artificial intelligence. More specifically, the aim is to ensure the continued development of AI remains beneficial to individuals and society on the whole, and to minimize the unavoidable negative impact, such as careers becoming redundant.
  Apple now joins the likes of Facebook,
  
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• Oppo moves to number 1 spot in Chinese smartphone market

  27-01-2017 18:44
  
  The latest research from Counterpoint on the Chinese smartphone market shows the extent of Oppo’s remarkable rise from minnow to big fish.
  The whole market managed relatively healthy growth of 12% in Q4 2016 and 6% for the full year, a decent effort considering the stagnant nature of the global market. Among the vendors the Chinese market seems especially volatile, with little apparent brand loyalty, and the current leader of the pack is Oppo.
  “The final quarter of the year was marke
  
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• Nokia gets in on the voice UI game

  27-01-2017 16:59
  
  Over the course of the last few months, we’ve seen numerous companies battle to perfect voice user interface (UI) offerings to capitalize on the digitally native consumers, and now Nokia is having a go.
  While companies like Google and Amazon have focused their offerings on smart home applications as the wave of IoT sweeps the consumer markets, Nokia has introduced Multi-purpose Intuitive Knowledge Assistant (MIKA) for the time pressed telco engineer. The digital assistant will not only be
  
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• Verizon and Charter kick off rumour mill with mammoth merger murmurs

  27-01-2017 14:52
  
  Rumour has it two of the largest telcos in the US are having hushed conversations over a potential merger of Verizon and Charter.
  According to the Wall Street Journal, representatives from both sides are having preliminary talks though nothing has been put on the table yet. Verizon is currently the largest wireless provider in the US, and following Charter’s acquisition of Time Warner Cable, it is the second-largest provider of cable, only behind Comcast, a merger between the two would cre
  
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• Italy, Ofcom and Brexit weigh heavily on BT quarterlies

  27-01-2017 12:39
  
  The dominant UK operator faces significant challenges on many fronts, not helped by dodgy accounting, aggressive regulation and European uncertainty.
  Having uncovered some highly creative accounting in its Italian business, BT had already appointed KPMG to investigate just WTF has been going on and they uncovered the greater-than-expected dodginess. BT’s auditors for the past few decades have been PwC and the FT reports that relationship might be over, which is understandable.
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• Microsoft, Google and VMware prove the cloud is more than wet air

  27-01-2017 12:36
  
  Microsoft, Alphabet (Google) and VMware has all reported healthy results in the heat of quarterlies season, with cloud computing forming the weighty foundation for growth.
  Starting with Microsoft, revenues across the business totaled $26.1 billion, a 1% year-on-year increase for the quarter, though the personal computing business is continuing to weigh heavy on the wider business. Elsewhere the story was a lot more positive.
  Revenue in Intelligent Cloud business was $6.9 billion, an increase of
  
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• BT’s Italian scandal triggers steep fall in profits

  27-01-2017 12:07
  Discovery of accounting irregularities in unit overshadows third-quarter results
  
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• Solgari partners with m-hance to offer cloud communications to its Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers

  27-01-2017 11:38
  
  m-hance boosts portfolio with Solgari’s cloud-based telephony solutions London – January 27, 2017 – Solgari, the global provider of the world’s first complete enterprise cloud business communications software solution, has today announced its partnership with m-hance, a Microsoft Dynamics Gold Partner. The partnership will enable m-hance to provide its Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers with a complete end-to-end cloud telephony solution.Solgari extends m-hance’s exis
  
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• Telia CEO says Eurasia exit 'highly probable' this year

  27-01-2017 01:00
  Telia Company CEO Johan Dennelind on Friday said it is highly probable that the Sweden-based telco group will sell its remaining Eurasian assets during 2017.Telia opted to exit the region in September 2015 following bribery allegations stemming from its entry into Uzbekistan in 2007, and amid rumours of unethical practices at some of its other Eurasian businesses…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Conflicting reports of possible Verizon-Charter deal

  27-01-2017 01:00
  Verizon may or may not be exploring a possible merger with cableco Charter, according to conflicting media reports this week.CNBC on Friday cited sources who claimed that no significant talks between the two companies are taking place…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT revisits 2008 with Global Services in crisis, a huge pension deficit and a backdrop of economic uncertainty

  27-01-2017 01:00
  I'll start off this week's Friday Review by conceding that the headline is perhaps a bit harsh on BT; it overlooks the progress the U.K. incumbent has made since 2008 in modernising its consumer unit by growing its TV business and buying its way back into mobile with EE. More later about how that's all going.This week's revelations about BT Italy though, coupled with the telco's sizeable pension deficit, and uncertainty about corporate and public sector spending, certainly were reminiscent of t
  
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• Book now for MWC 2019: Barcelona seeks limits on tourists

  27-01-2017 01:00
  Would-be Mobile World Congress-goers could soon find it even harder to book accommodation in Barcelona, after its new mayor pressed ahead with plans to curb the number of visitors to the city…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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