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• Does my aaS look big in this? Microsoft Azure targets IoT amateurs

  21-04-2017 13:05
  
  Microsoft has launched its IoT-as-a-Service offering, seemingly cashing in the gap between IoT euphoria and a lack of in-house expertise to make any sense of it.
  Time Series Insights claims to give customers a near real-time global view of data across various event sources and quickly validate IoT solutions. It essentially an IoT interface for those organizations who do not have the in-house capabilities to build it themselves. If the promise of IoT is to spot hidden trends, spot anomalies and c
  
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• Italian court rules excessive mobile phone use caused brain tumour

  21-04-2017 12:47
  
  A Telecom Italia employee has won compensation for a benign brain tumour he says was caused by using his mobile phone for three hours a day over 15 years.
  The ruling, originally reported by Sky TG24 and covered in English by AFP and AP, was issued by a court in the Italian city of Ivrea last month but only recently made public. The plaintiff Roberto Romeo was not suing Telecom Italia, for whom he worked over the time in question, but instead the Italian state in a bid to win compensation.
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• Oracle shells out a Moat load of cash for online ad auditor

  21-04-2017 12:35
  
  Oracle has continued its quest to buy its way into the cloud game with the acquisition of ad tracking company Moat for a reported $850 million.
  Having recently admitted it was sniffing around after a period of media speculation, Oracle has confirmed the acquisition, though once it closes Moat will remain independent. The ad tracking software will be included in Oracle’s Data Cloud portfolio however. Oracle has been keeping quiet on how much its Moat will cost, but ReCode has reported the d
  
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• ZTE bags virtualisation deal with Veon

  21-04-2017 02:00
  ZTE this week signed a global framework agreement with Veon, the telco formerly known as VimpelCom.Under the deal, the Chinese kit maker will become a supplier to Veon of network function virtualisation (NFV) infrastructure and virtual evolved packet core (vEPC) solutions…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Liberty Global, Ericsson, BT are 2017's early headline hoggers

  21-04-2017 02:00
  With telcos' Q1 financial reports beginning to blossom like the first flowers of spring – except there are more numbers and explanatory notes involved – Total Telecom thought it the ideal time to reflect on how the industry is faring so far in 2017.But rather than just give our take, we thought it would be interesting to see what has piqued the interest of Total Telecom readers so far this year.So here are our top 10 stories from the first few months of 2017, based on unique pagevie
  
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• Forget Siri and Alexa, for Orange it's Djingo all the way

  21-04-2017 02:00
  Orange this week became the latest company to launch a voice-activated digital assistant.Called Djingo, it has similar functionality to Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, and Google's Assistant, enabling Orange customers to pose questions and control connected devices…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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