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• Infographic: Natural Language Processing in mobile

  30-06-2017 17:53
  
  With the rise of artificial intelligence claiming column inches everywhere, one has to ask how important it is to the world of mobile. And it turns out quite a lot.
  We’ve written numerous times about the increasingly prominent position the voice user interface is taking in the connected era, but the success of this breakthrough is underpinned by the work done in AI. Whether it is machine perception to hear your voice, or NLP to process it into readable information for the computer, or mach
  
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• Nokia poaches Samsung veteran to head up consumer tech division

  30-06-2017 17:51
  
  Nokia Technologies – the bit that deals with things like wearables and intellectual property, is now being run by Gregory Lee, the former head of Samsung Electronics North America.
  Lee’s Nokia profile page reveals he had the top North American job since the start of 2015, prior to that he headed up the mobile phone division and served as global CMO for his first five years at Samsung Electronics. So Lee is very much a devices guy, which may offer some insight into Nokia’s non-n
  
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• Qualcomm and NXP feel heat as Europe continues to posture

  30-06-2017 15:56
  
  Qualcomm and NXP are finding out just how awkward the European Commission can actually be, as the boresome bureaucrats throw their toys out of the pram.
  In a move which could be likened to asking a condemned man to tie his own noose, the European Commission (hereafter known as the Gaggle of Red-tapers) has decided Qualcomm and NXP aren’t providing enough information to help them potentially quash the proposed acquisition of the latter by the former, and has therefore put its investigation
  
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• Orange puts bank on hold as it struggles to get it right

  30-06-2017 13:30
  
  Orange has put the brakes on its ambitious plans to venture into the world of mobile banking after finding the proposition doesn’t quite meet the standards.
  It’s been one of the most anticipated moves in the telco world recently, as it is actually something a bit different. While most telcos rebrand previous offerings or copycat others initiatives, Orange has taken a bold step taking it truly out of the comfort zone, and it hasn’t quite nailed it yet.
  “Stéphane Ric
  
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• Jio launches 100 Gbps submarine cable connecting Asia, Africa and Europe

  30-06-2017 12:53
  
  Not content with turning the Indian telecoms market upside down Reliance Jio has been a primary player in a new 100 Gbps submarine cable system.
  AAE-1 (Asia-Africa-Europe) does what it says on the tin – running from Hong Kong to Marseille via south east Asia, India, the Middle East and Africa. Of course Jio didn’t do the whole thing by itself but it is the network operations and management provider and seems to be the telco most keen to derive publicity from it.
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• NewVoiceMedia recognised among Companies to Inspire Britain 2017

  30-06-2017 12:46
  
  LONDON, 30 June 2017 – NewVoiceMedia, a leading global provider of cloud contact centre and inside sales technology that enables businesses to have more successful conversations, has ranked among the London Stock Exchange Group’s ‘1,000 Companies to Inspire Britain’ for the third consecutive year.The report is an annual celebration of some of the most dynamic and fastest-growing enterprises in the UK. The 1,000 businesses listed have, on average, grown their revenue by 70
  
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• Facebook flies forward with second Aquila connectivity drone test

  30-06-2017 12:24
  
  Facebook has completed the second step of its claimed quest to democratise the internet, with a second successful test of its drone designed to deliver connectivity to the world’s most remote places.
  The mission here is simple; deliver the internet to people who don’t have it. Facebook claims there are 1.6 billion people living in regions which don’t have access to a mobile broadband network, and connecting these individuals through traditional means is an almost impossibly exp
  
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• Orange delays bank launch

  30-06-2017 02:00
  Orange has delayed the launch of its much-vaunted banking service to give it more time to improve quality and performance.Staff have been using Orange Bank since mid-May, and it was due to launch commercially on 6 July…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Grappling with the dos and don'ts of digital transformation

  30-06-2017 02:00
  A bad business process is a bad business process, irrespective of whether it is digital or not.That is just one tip of the huge, many-tipped iceberg that is digital transformation, which was the subject of a Total Telecom Breakfast Briefing hosted in London in partnership with Telstra this week.The key message, and it probably doesn't come as a huge surprise, is that digital transformation for any big company, including a telco, is a complex task that can easily go awry if the company doesn't h
  
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• EC pauses Qualcomm/NXP investigation

  30-06-2017 02:00
  The European Commission this week suspended its investigation into Qualcomm's proposed $47 billion acquisition of rival chipmaker NXP.Reuters reported on Thursday that, according to the EC, the companies failed to submit relevant information to the antitrust watchdog…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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