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• Sex, lies and Frenchmen on bikes

  17-10-2017 19:09 via ft.com
  Facebook buys TBH, Wag dogged by tales, Huawei’s new Mates
  
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• ZTE launches a dual-screen, foldable smartphone for some reason

  17-10-2017 18:54
  The desperate search for smartphone innovation continues as ZTE USA has another go at the dual-screen paradigm for old time’s sake.
  Samsung has been banging on about foldable screens for years, but that’s not what this is. Instead the ZTE Axon M features two distinct screens joined together via a hinge to resurrect the clamshell form factor so popular back in the pre-smartphone days. It’s initially being offered exclusively by AT&T, which seems to think it will be a good vi
  
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• Global Mobile Broadband Forum: An Overview

  17-10-2017 16:31
  By Anne Morris, Contributing Editor. This blog was sponsored by Huawei.
  Mobile AI, the evolution of mobile broadband architectures and the latest insights into 5G will all feature prominently at this year’s Global Mobile Broadband Forum in London.
  The mobile broadband world is moving inevitably towards 5G, but how will the industry transition from 4G LTE to the promised world of 5G?
  That’s a key topic to be explored in London in November when the great and good of the mobile industry
  
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• Genesis Technical Systems' mBond® technology selected by Next Generation Access

  17-10-2017 15:30
  Densely populated and underserved areas across the UK are set to benefit from high speed and reliable broadband thanks to Genesis Technical Systems’ mBond technologyCoventry, UK – 17 October 2017 – Genesis Technical Systems today announced it has received orders from Next Generation Access (NGA), a UK national carrier, for its mBond® technology. By deploying the Genesis solution on its existing telecommunications infrastructure, NGA will be able to provide high speed, relia
  
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• Makedonski Telekom chooses cloud-based security from Secucloud

  17-10-2017 14:30
  A further subsidiary of the Deutsche Telekom Group is now working with the German security specialistHamburg, Germany. 17 October 2017 – Starting in October Makedonski Telekom, as a part of Deutsche Telekom Group since 2001, will be safeguarding its mobile customers from online threats by providing them with user-friendly and powerful baseline protection. The solution is based on the cloud security service from the German company Secucloud.Following a call for tenders early this year, Make
  
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• Italian government uses ‘golden power’ to challenge Vivendi control of TIM

  17-10-2017 14:27
  It looks like the Italian government has decided Vivendi is being too cheeky in its attempts to control operator TIM without going to the trouble of buying it.
  The PM is taking the unprecedented step of using a so-called ‘golden power’ (which it’s important to spell correctly), to exercise influence over the strategic decisions made by TIM. This move appears to be a direct response to concerns that Vivendi is managing to control TIM despite owning less than a quarter of its sha
  
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• NB-IoT, a Broad Road to the IoT

  17-10-2017 13:28
  A consensus has been reached in the industry that the IoT era has arrived. As predicted, there will be 30 billion IoT devices by 2020, and up to 70 billion by 2025. As the IoT ecosystem is gradually formed, the prospects of the IoT are very bright. The total added-value of the IoT will reach $1.8 trillion by 2020, according to estimates in analysis reports. Various applications and solutions designed and developed to cover individuals, industries, and the IoT ecosystem have mushroomed, boosting
  
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• Qualcomm claims first 5G data connection with a device chipset

  17-10-2017 13:27
  Embattled chip giant Qualcomm is keen to show its state of perma-litigation isn’t distracting it from the business of modem innovation.
  The ‘5G firsts’ are coming thick and fast these days as we’re less than a year from the anticipated standard being announced. While it’s involved in a number of different chippy areas Qualcomm’s core competence remains modems, so it’s vital to the future health of the company that it occupies as strong a position in 5G a
  
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• Android exposed by KRACK in WPA2 wifi security

  17-10-2017 11:56
  The latest cyber security crisis concerns a vulnerability in the Wifi Protected Access II security protocol and seems to be especially problematic for Android devices.
  In time-honoured fashion the first priority was to find a nice acronym for it, and little time was wasted in agreeing on KRACK as a sort of abbreviation of Key Reinstallation Attacks. We have the people who discovered the vulnerability to thank for that as well as the website krackattacks.com, which explains how it works in the vi
  
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• NewVoiceMedia wins 2017 CUSTOMER Contact Center Technology Award

  17-10-2017 10:00
  ContactWorld honoured for improving customer service technology and the customer experienceLONDON, 17 October 2017 - NewVoiceMedia, a leading global provider of cloud contact centre and inside sales technology that enables businesses to have more successful conversations, today announced that its ContactWorld solution has been named a 2017 CUSTOMER Contact Center Technology Award winner. The award, presented for the 12th year by global, integrated media company TMC and CUSTOMER Magazine, honours
  
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• Fifth Industry Report Recognises OutSystems as a Leader in Low-Code Platforms for Application Development

  17-10-2017 10:00
  New report says low-code platforms are “Here to Stay”London 17th October 2017 -- OutSystems, the number one low-code platform for application development, was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Development Platforms For AD&D Pros, Q4 2017. This is the fifth report in the last 18 months that has identified OutSystems as a Leader in the low-code app dev market, which includes low-code development, mobile low-code development, mobile application development platfo
  
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• Qualcomm claims victory in 5G ultrafast wireless race

  17-10-2017 03:35 via ft.com
  Chipset’s speed of 1 gigabit a second raises stakes for rivals in broadband battle 
  
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• NBN connects 3m premises, addresses litany of complaints

  17-10-2017 02:00
  Australia's NBN has activated 3 million premises on its next-generation broadband network and insists that the rate of growth is to blame for the recent bad press it has suffered.In total the NBN broadband access network passes 6 million premises, the network operator announced…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Italy uses golden power to control TIM

  17-10-2017 02:00
  The Italian government on Monday confirmed that it will exercise its so-called golden power on TIM, imposing a number of conditions on the telco that it says will enable it to protect strategic national assets…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• AT&T to get Brazil watchdog OK for Time Warner deal

  17-10-2017 02:00
  Brazil's antitrust authority will approve AT&T's planned takeover of Time Warner later this week, it emerged on Monday.The Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE) will set conditions on the proposed US$85…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• AT&T linked with Mexican fixed-line firm buy

  17-10-2017 02:00
  AT&T could be looking to acquire a fixed-line operation in Mexico, according to local press reports.Alternative operator Axtel has hired bankers to help it explore its options for the future…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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