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• ARM says we’re A-OK with AI

  28-06-2017 18:02
  
  New research commissioned by ARM has highlighted that the tide might be turning in the acceptance of artificial intelligence, not only in the industry but in the wider world.
  While the importance of AI has widely been championed in the technology sector, the perception has been a bit less enthusiastic from consumers. For the most part, there has been a general misunderstanding and also misrepresentation of what AI is, and it would only be considered human nature to dismiss something which is not
  
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• Qualcomm unveils new ultrasonic fingerprint scanning tech

  28-06-2017 16:43
  
  Fingerprint scanning and authentication technology seems set to take the next step with Qualcomm’s cleverly named Fingerprint Sensors.
  The other clever bit is the use of ultrasonic technology to scan fingerprints, which allows the existence of a significantly thicker piece of material between the sensor and the finger – twice as thick in the case of glass (800 µm). It also has features such as detection of directional gestures, underwater fingerprint match and can also use hear
  
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• Calix Reinvents Connected Home Support and Experience Management with Calix Support Cloud

  28-06-2017 15:12
  
  Latest Calix Cloud innovation built to radically improve service provider customer support economics and experience through breakthrough diagnostics and automated issue resolutionPETALUMA, CA – June 28, 2017 – Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX), the world leader in Subscriber Driven Intelligent Access, today announced the availability of Calix Support Cloud, a new addition to Calix Cloud purpose built to dramatically improve and transform how service provider customer service representatives (
  
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• Ofcom outs BT and Vodafone as UK’s worst performers

  28-06-2017 13:17
  
  Ofcom has released its sh*t list for Q1 2017, detailing the good ones and the bad ones from the UK telco industry in terms of complaints… drum roll please.
  Generally, the industry is actually getting better, despite what many would claim. Yes, the telco industry is behind the vast majority of others in terms of customer service and satisfaction, but you can’t argue with the figures.
  In terms of the average number of complaints per 100,000 customers, broadband is down to 21 over
  
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• OT-Morpho and ASPIDER-NGI Partner on eSIM Solutions

  28-06-2017 13:15
  
  Core FactsASPIDER-NGI, a leading provider of MVNE, IoT, connectivity and content solutions, today announced a partnership with OT-Morpho, a world leader in digital security and identification technologies.The ASPIDER-NGI portfolio of fallback, bootstrap and operational profiles, SMS numbering and IoT eConnect (a preconfigured Service Delivery Platform to manage connectivity to the network from provisioning and activation to billing) will now be integrated to OT-Morpho’s eSIM and Subscripti
  
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• Jasper integrates Cisco goodness in latest Control Center update

  28-06-2017 12:46
  
  Over a year after Cisco completed its acquisition of IoT specialist Jasper, we’re seeing some integration of Cisco technology into the Jasper platform.
  Jasper’s core product is Control Center – a platform and dashboard designed to enable control of the whole IoT stack, from devices to the cloud. Cisco has just announced Control Center 7.0, which is the first version to integrate Cisco technologies such as:
  Extra Cisco security
  Integration with Cisco Spark for built-in collabora
  
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• Nokia talks-up continuity-of-service at MWC Shanghai

  28-06-2017 12:12
  
  At MWC Shanghai Nokia has gone beyond idle and slightly irrelevant claims of 4.XG technologies and actually attempted to build a narrative around the PR fluff.
  As everyone in the industry is now talking about super-speeds, or super-low latency, the noise is starting to become a blur. We also seem to have very short memories. During the build up to any technological step forward there are a number of claims made from trials in the lab or ‘real-world’ tests. Can you actually pin-point
  
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• Zylpha Launches Land Registry Business Gateway Integration

  28-06-2017 11:19
  
  Leading legal systems innovator Zylpha (www.zylpha.com) has announced a new Visualfiles integration with the Land Registry Business Gateway. Enabling users of the LexisNexis Visualfiles case management system to streamline the conveyancing process, the new integration also allows users to request a broad range of information including: office copy entries, bankruptcy searches, daylist enquiries and much more. This transformational integration reduces the time-consuming administrative burden on t
  
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• Telstra weighs opportunities to capitalise on China's digital transformation

  28-06-2017 02:00
  Telstra on Wednesday discussed how it might capitalise on China's digital transformation by pitching itself as an enabler for foreign enterprises hoping to crack the market.This was one idea posited by Tom Homer, EMEA managing director at Telstra Enterprise, during a panel session at a Total Telecom Breakfast Briefing about Asia's digital transformation…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• T-Mobile US launches LTE-U

  28-06-2017 02:00
  T-Mobile US on Monday launched LTE-Unlicensed (LTE-U) in select locations and successfully tested Licence Assisted Access (LAA) on its live network, paving the way for even faster mobile speeds…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Sprint in exclusive talks with Charter, Comcast

  28-06-2017 02:00
  Sprint has entered into exclusive talks with Charter Communications and Comcast about hosting the cablecos' respective MVNO services, it emerged this week…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Facebook reaches 2bn members

  28-06-2017 02:00
  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg late on Tuesday revealed that 2 billion people now use the social network.Expanding on Tuesday's milestone announcement in a separate statement, Facebook said more than 800 million people like something on Facebook every day…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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