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• Chinese app developers lodge Apple antitrust complaint

  09-08-2017 22:16
  Dozens allege unfair treatment in iPhone maker’s biggest app market
  
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• Nokia Bell Labs shows off its big new aaS

  09-08-2017 18:45
  Nokia Bell Labs has shocked the world with the invention of another aaS, this time targeting the big, wide world of 5G.
  Putting together a consortium of players throughout Europe, the new aaS rolls right off the tongue, standing for Next Generation Platform-as-a-Service. The consortium is part of the European Commission’s 5G Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership (5G-PPP), and features organizations such as BT, Orange, ATOS and the University of Milano-Bicocca.
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• Telit’s Oozi Cats dogged by near-namesake’s fraud indictment

  09-08-2017 18:36
  Lawyers look into whether fugitive Uzi Katz is linked to UK tech group CEO
  
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• Ericsson gets Zain Kuwait digital transformation gig

  09-08-2017 18:36
  Zain Kuwait is conducting a major digital transformation project for the utilities sector and has asked Ericsson to join the party.
  The project will focus on bringing utilities such as electricity and water into the 21st century via things like enterprise and cloud billing and smart meters. These will supposedly enable more efficient and accurate billing and distribution as well as greater end-user engagement.
  Ericsson is the sole technology partner and as such will install around 800,000 smart
  
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• Is Three’s call for a judicial review just a stalling tactic?

  09-08-2017 18:00
  We’ve been expecting it since the earnings call, but Three has now made it official. It will be making a legal challenge to Ofcom’s reforms to the 5G spectrum auction.
  During the earnings call, CEO Dave Dyson got his excuses in early stating a review would not cause any negative impact on the 5G journey, because it would only take three months. He constantly asserted no decision had been made, but it was a pretty transparent PR-exercise of prepping the market for a judicial review, a
  
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• ZTE’s virtual router boosts network virtualization transformation of VEON

  09-08-2017 17:20
  With the development of cloud computing, SDN technology is gradually stepping in Wide Area Networks (WANs) from data centers (DC) and the NFV architecture is becoming mature. The SDN technology featuring separated control/forwarding and NFV architecture featuring decoupled software/hardware are bringing about a deep renovation of telecom network architecture. ZTE, following the SDN/NFV trend of carrier networks, unveils a brand-new carrier-class virtual router product – the ZXR10 V6000 vRo
  
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• OutSystems 10 Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

  09-08-2017 17:08
  London -- August 9, 2017 - The latest version of the OutSystems low-code application development platform, powered by Microsoft Azure, is available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Azure customers can now leverage the OutSystems 10 platform, fully optimised to run on mobile devices with top performance, zero delays, and the smoothest transitions and animations.Using the OutSystems platform, any developer can now build the types of secure, scalable, enterprise-grade mobile apps that in the pas
  
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• M1 NB-IoT TLC IRL FTW

  09-08-2017 13:30
  M1 has announced the launch of, what it claims, is South-east Asia’s first commercial nationwide NB-IoT in Singapore.
  Seeing Singapore do some pretty wonderful things in the digital world is just part of the wallpaper now, but this is an area where it is seemingly on par with everyone else. Vodafone and Orange have been talking about nationwide NB-IoT networks for some time; it certainly is unusual for European nations to be keeping pace with a nation like Singapore.
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• As Netflix moves further towards original content Disney decides to stream it alone

  09-08-2017 12:59
  Disney has announced the acquisition of a majority stake in video streaming provider BAMTech in a step towards streaming its own content independently.
  Having bought a 33% stake a year ago Disney is forking out $1.58 billion for an extra 42%, thus giving it majority ownership and effective control. BAMTech was created to stream Major League Baseball but was spun off and now deals with other sports as well as HBO Now. The latter task is currently in the spotlight with the latest series of Game of
  
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• Qualcomm celebrates ITC investigation of Apple

  09-08-2017 12:39
  The American international trade watchdog is officially investigating Apple over Qualcomm’s claims the iChief has infringed its patents with its iPhones and iPads.
  Companies suing each other in the tech space is nothing new, but this one could get quite feisty. What usually happens with some sort of patent dispute is one companies pays the other to make the headache go away, but considering how much the Apple/Qualcomm relationship has deteriorated, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see Qu
  
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• Former Home Office Finance Director Appointed As Joint MD of Aareon UK and 1st Touch

  09-08-2017 12:38
  Nigel Rees has been appointed as Joint UK MD of Aareon (www.aareon.co.uk) and 1st Touch (www.1sttouch.com), a role he will share with current Aareon MD Steve Makin. In his new role, Rees will seek to exploit and drive the significant benefits available from the close collaboration between the two Aareon Group companies in the social housing technology marketplace.Rees, who qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG, joins from The Home Office, where for over 18...Source: RealWire
  
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• Ofcom proposes higher wholesale rates to cover cost of BT's universal service rollout

  09-08-2017 02:00
  Ofcom on Wednesday suggested allowing BT to raise its wholesale broadband prices to cover the cost of its recently-proposed plan to build new networks in underserved parts of the U.K."We propose to allow BT to recover relevant efficient costs of this investment through an increase in the charges for broadband lines supplied in the WLA (wholesale local access) market…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• ITC weighs in on Qualcomm-Apple spat

  09-08-2017 02:00
  Qualcomm on Wednesday welcomed the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC)'s decision to investigate the chip maker's patent complaint against Apple.The regulator will look into whether the import and sale of various Apple products…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Bharti offloads INR25.7bn Infratel stake

  09-08-2017 02:00
  Bharti Airtel this week sold a 3.65% stake in its towers business Bharti Infratel, raising 25.7 billion rupees (€343.32 million).In a statement on Tuesday…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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