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• Partner Tech demonstrates pioneering POS solutions from Star Micronics at Gitex Technology Week 2017

  06-10-2017 14:57
  High Wycombe, UK, 6 October 2017 - International POS printer manufacturer Star Micronics is pleased to announce that it will be part of the large range of POS solutions that Partner Tech is exhibiting at Gitex Technology Week (8 - 12 October 2017, Dubai World Trade Centre). Partner Tech will be demonstrating a range of software and hardware POS solutions encompassing the Star brand as well as its established E-PoS brand in Hall 3 Stand...Source: RealWire
  
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• Best of Lex: your weekly round-up

  06-10-2017 13:51
  For what it’s worth, ask what someone will pay — from MBAs to driverless cars
  
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• ZTE turns to golf to help it flog smartphones

  06-10-2017 13:35
  ZTE has signed a three-year marketing agreement to become the PGA Tour’s first ever ‘official smartphone’.
  The Chinese vendor is presumably hoping for a bit of US smartphone credibility by associating itself with the country’s professional golf tour. Not only will it get to impose its marketing collateral on golf fans at select events, it will also preload certain phones with the PGA Tour Live app and subscription service, including a 30-day free trial of golfing goodies
  
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• The tech is there so why aren’t we doing better?

  06-10-2017 13:11
  New technology has been billed as a means to make us more efficient in the work place, but we are actually becoming less productive. So what’s missing from the equation?
  The point was made by Joshua Meltzer from the Brookings Institute at the Nordic Digital Business Summit in Helsinki. The mobile world of cloud, connectivity and IoT is supposed to make us better, more efficient and more profitable, but it simply isn’t. And this isn’t just one analyst picking out a trend, the da
  
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• Ofcom wants to force broadband providers to stop lying

  06-10-2017 13:04
  The UK telecoms regulator is finally getting around to doing something about dodgy broadband speed claims.
  Few other industries can get away with selling their products on the basis of optimistic approximations, as opposed to hard facts, but ISPs have long been an exception. UK consumers typically buy their broadband on the promise that they can expect download speeds of ‘up to’ a certain maximum. In practise, however, the speeds they experience seldom, if ever, come close to that nu
  
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• Just because it can be connected, that doesn’t mean it should be

  06-10-2017 11:32
  Technology breakthroughs are great things; they present the opportunity for ideas, creativity and innovation. But there is always the risk of enthusiasm running away with itself.
  That was certainly evident at this years’ Nordic Digital Business Summit, where IoT was at the top of the agenda. The connected world is big and beautiful, those who are smart enough can start creating money out of thin air. But one question which might gain sneers from the fanatics is whether connecting the entir
  
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• The secret lives of children and their phones

  06-10-2017 06:05
  Snapchat and Clash Royale, but not Facebook: what children really do with their phones
  
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• Voda NZ float seen in Spring 2018

  06-10-2017 02:00
  Vodafone is unlikely to float a portion of its New Zealand operation before the end of this year, and could in fact wait until several months into 2018 before it makes a move…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• UK to give consumers more info on broadband speeds

  06-10-2017 02:00
  Consumers in the U.K. could soon find it easier to shop for a new broadband service as a result of a proposed change to the regulator's code of practice that will require providers to be more transparent about the capabilities of the services they offer and make it easier for dissatisfied customers to cancel their contracts.Ofcom on Friday shared plans to update its existing code of practice for broadband to enable people better to understand what they are buying and giving them greater recours
  
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• Mexico rejects America Movil functional separation plan

  06-10-2017 02:00
  Mexico's telecom regulator has told America Movil to try again with its plan for functional separation.The Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) has rejected a proposal presented by the market's biggest operator and given it a month to come up with a modified version…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• From dead bodies to software-defined partnerships

  06-10-2017 02:00
  "The telecoms world is littered with the dead bodies of partnerships."That doom-laden statement was uttered by Colt's VP for wholesale, Tim Passingham, at Carriers World last week, shortly after David James, practice leader, wholesale telecoms, at Ovum had reeled off a litany of once big names in the industry that have fallen by the wayside over the 20 years since the event's inception.Many of those names were indeed partnerships…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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