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• Samsung and Intel pounce on battle weary Qualcomm

  15-05-2017 17:36
  
  Intel and Samsung have decided to pile the pressure onto rival Qualcomm with both parties filing amicus briefs backing the Federal Trade Commission’s complaints against the chip giant.
  Back in January, the FTC filed a complaint accusing Qualcomm of using its dominant position in the market to reduce the threat of competition. More specifically, Qualcomm is being accused of elevating fees for its licenses to rival baseband processor makers, thus putting them at a competitive disadvantage. Q
  
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• Vodafone transfers stake in Kenya operator Safaricom to Vodacom

  15-05-2017 15:05
  Latest step by UK telco to simplify global assets as talk continues of bigger deals
  
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• Quortus shortlisted in Outstanding Innovation in Small Cell Business Case Category at Small Cell Industry 2017 Awards

  15-05-2017 15:00
  
  PaaS (Platform as a Service) virtual LTE networks for the enterprise developed with Expeto recognized by judgesCamberley, UK – 15th May 2017 – Quortus today announces that its pioneering work in virtual LTE networks with partner Expeto has been shortlisted in the Outstanding Innovation in Small Cell Business Case category at the annual Small Cell Industry Awards, organised by Small Cell Forum. The companies’ jointly-developed solution uses network function virtualization (NFV)
  
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• Nokia backs the bot revolution

  15-05-2017 12:57
  
  Nokia has introduced a number of new artificial intelligence-driven offerings, taking another incremental step towards network automation and the widespread use of bots in customer services.
  The team has launched a number of new services targeting the targeting high-growth segments of the software and services market. Firstly, Autonomous Customer Care is focused on machine learning-powered interactive care bots to automate high-volume service issues. Secondly, the Analytics Office Services suite
  
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• Bewildering complexity of telecoms virtualization highlighted at TMF Live

  15-05-2017 12:50
  
  On the opening morning of the TM Forum Live 2017 event a succession of operators and vendors lined up to give their take on how virtualization is progressing.
  The ultimate conclusion was ‘it’s complicated’, as illustrated by prevalence of the all too familiar ‘loads of boxes inside bigger boxes’ software slides. Everyone agrees on what a great idea telecoms virtualization is, and the need for telcos to at least get closer to so-called OTTs in terms of speed, agility
  
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• The results are in… Intel and Samsung are bossing it

  15-05-2017 12:28
  
  Revenues in the worldwide semiconductor market have taken a 2.6% step upwards, with Intel and Samsung stretching their lead at the top of the table.
  According to Gartner, total revenues for the segment increased to $343.5 billion over the course of 2016, with Intel taking a 15.7% slice of the market share, and Samsung accounting for 11.7%. The pair grew by 4.6% and 5.9% respectively, but the news was not as positive for Qualcomm, which saw its own revenues decline by 4.1%. This is a worrying sig
  
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• Self-crashing drone helps improve navigation… really, it does

  15-05-2017 11:40
  
  Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have taken the bold approach of creating a kamikaze drone to help the development of the technology.
  Dhiraj Gandhi, Lerrel Pinto and Abhinav Gupta came up with the idea because everyone else was avoiding it, but it is a relatively sound theory. It is easier to understand why not to do something, or how not to do it, when you know understand the build-up and consequences. With this in mind, the team developed a drone which has now be crashed more than 11,
  
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• Apple’s $200m acquisition wants to shed light on dark-data

  15-05-2017 11:06
  
  Apple has reportedly made another sly move into the world of artificial intelligence through the $200 million acquisition of dark-data firm Lattice.
  The purchase has been brought to light by TechCrunch, and will add a small, but respected team of AI engineers to the ranks of the iLife army. Covert acquisitions like this by Apple as not uncommon, it is after all one of the more secretive tech firms out there, and it’s not 100% sure what the technology will be used for at the moment, but it
  
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• Your identity could be under threat in the VR world – Ericsson

  15-05-2017 10:18
  
  VR is coming whether you like it or not, and according to Ericsson identity theft could take on an entirely new twist in the virtual world.
  Speaking at WeDo Technologies Worldwide User Group conference, Ericsson’s Rebecka Angstrom posed a number of questions around security which haven’t received many headlines to date. Will VR make it easier to infiltrate corporate environments? Or could you be locked out of your own reality?
  “The world is about to change,” said Angstrom
  
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• Vodafone ups Vodacom stake with €2.4bn Safaricom transfer

  15-05-2017 02:00
  Vodafone on Monday transferred a 35% indirect stake in its Kenyan arm Safaricom to its Vodacom unit, upping its stake in the South African operator to 70% from 65%.Under the transaction…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Vivendi offers to offload TIM's Persidera unit to ease competition concerns

  15-05-2017 02:00
  Vivendi has offered to sell Persidera, Telecom Italia's broadcasting services arm, in a bid to win over EU competition watchdogs.This is according to a Reuters report late last week, which said the European Commission subsequently sought feedback from rivals about whether Persidera could function as a viable competitor in the market for wholesale access to digital TV broadcast networks…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• United Internet scales up with Drillisch merger

  15-05-2017 02:00
  United Internet late last week agreed to merge its telco business with mobile player Drillisch, creating a fourth-integrated operator that can compete with Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica and Vodafone.The combined company has 12 million customers and generated €3.2 billion in revenue last year. The deal is expected to generate annual synergies of €150 million by 2020, rising to €250 million by 2025…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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