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• Virtual assistants are taking over the world!

  26-10-2017 18:50
  Research from Verto Analytics shows the time we spend playing games on our phones is levelling off, but we’re getting more accustomed to virtual assistants.
  Using data gathered between data gathered between June 2016 and July 2017, the Verto team has said the market penetration for personal assistant devices grew 295% year-over-year from 1.7% to 7.4%. Admittedly it is still a pretty small percentage, but considering the hype has only started gathering steam over the last few months, it is
  
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• Grudge holding KPN wins appeal over UPC-Ziggo merger

  26-10-2017 18:26
  KPN has thrown a considerable spanner into the Liberty Global machine as the European Court of Justice overturns a decision to approve the merger between UPC and Ziggo back in 2014.
  Liberty Global made the move to merge its UPC brand with Ziggo back in 2014, which was approved by the European Commission. KPN’s temper tantrum appeal is based on the argument the European Commission did not consider the anti-competitive impact of such a merger on the Pay-TV sports market in the Netherlands.
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• Global MilSatCom 2017 sees record-breaking attendance for military delegation

  26-10-2017 15:35
  SMi’s Group’s 19th annual Global MilSatCom is gearing up to be the most attended conference in its 19-year history. (LONDON, UK) SMi’s Global MilSatCom 2017 Conference & Exhibition will take place on 7-9 November at the Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel in London.There is an expected turnout of over 500 delegates from nations and organisations including Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembou
  
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• Samsung supports seven start-up spin-offs

  26-10-2017 13:17
  Samsung execs have given the thumbs up to seven ideas created in its Creative Lab initiative, creating a series of start-ups all fuelled and managed by employees.
  The seven will focus on a variety of areas including VR/AR, IoT and healthcare, demonstrating innovation came come from some unlikely sources. For the most part, organic innovation is a rare skill to nurture in the technology giants, with most choosing to outsource risk by means of acquisition.
  Most organizations would say they are inn
  
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• Quarterly earnings round-up – Orange, Telefonica and Sprint

  26-10-2017 12:08
  Orange and Telefonica feel the pinch of roaming charges regulations, while Sprint records highest customers adds in two years, but manages to slip back into a loss.
  Orange feels roaming impact but convergence pays off
  Orange has said new regulations for roaming charges has slowed growth over the course of the quarter, though the team has reported a 0.9% lift in total revenues on a comparable basis. What this actually means is the team made less money than last year, but if you get creative with
  
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• Why did I miss American Pai?

  26-10-2017 11:59
  The star speaker on the final day of Broadband World Forum 2017 was supposed to be FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, but he ended up blowing it out.
  No explanation was offered by super-sub Don Stockdale – Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau at the FCC – only that Pai expressed his regrets. Stockdale delivered a perfectly good keynote but we will never know whether Trump appointee Pai, who hasn’t been shy about creating headlines in his brief time in charge, would have made any
  
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• 5G can’t come soon enough for Nokia as shares plunge on weak 2018 outlook

  26-10-2017 11:13
  Revenues might be down, losses widening and customer appetites weak, but Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri stands tall as the eye is set firmly onto the 5G horizon.
  Looking at the quarterly revenues, it is pretty tough reading. Net sales declined by 7% year-on-year to €5.537 billion for the quarter, with the core networks business dropping 9% to €4.823 billion. The poster child of the networks team, Ultra Broadband Networks took the biggest of the blows with a year-on-year decline of 17% to €
  
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• Analyst firm Frost & Sullivan honours Secucloud with New Product Innovation Award 2017

  26-10-2017 11:08
  German security specialist receives accolade for cloud-based security conceptHamburg, Germany. 26 October 2017 – To protect themselves as effectively as possible against complex cyber-threats, companies are increasingly adopting a combination of different security technologies. This practice often leads to multiple specialised solutions being used in parallel. However, the perceived increase in protection levels can also make security management more complex. This challenge can push IT tea
  
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• Nokia shares fall over networks business woes

  26-10-2017 10:56
  Investors take fright at a persistent drop in sales
  
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• Fon joins prpl Foundation to accelerate open-source innovation for the Digital Home and Carrier WiFi

  26-10-2017 09:55
  Fon also joins the prpl Carrier Interest Group, prplWrt working group, and common API task groupSANTA CLARA, CALIF – 26 October 2017 – The prpl Foundation, an open-source, community-driven, not-for-profit consortium with a focus enabling the security and interoperability of embedded devices for the smart society of the future, has today announced that Fon has joined the Foundation. As the world’s leading WiFi software company, Fon joins prpl to accelerate the development of a c
  
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• Nokia falls 13.5% on network business woes

  26-10-2017 09:46
  Finnish group blames ‘challenges’ in its broadband business
  
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• UK regulator forces BT fixed-line price cut

  26-10-2017 02:00
  Ofcom on Thursday published new rules that will bring about a significant drop in prices for up to 1 million BT fixed-line customers.The U.K. regulator conducted a review of U.K. line rental prices and concluded that rates have risen despite falling wholesale costs…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telenor exceeds cost saving expectations

  26-10-2017 02:00
  Telenor reached its full-year cost-savings targets in the third quarter of this year and therefore expects full-year efficiency gains to come in ahead of target…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange talks up performance in France in Q3

  26-10-2017 02:00
  Orange posted a strong set of third-quarter numbers this week, buoyed by what it claims was its best performance in its home market in almost a decade.The France-based operator group posted a slight uptick in revenue for the three months to the end of September…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• NBN adds G.fast into the mix

  26-10-2017 02:00
  NBN will use G.fast technology to extend high-speed broadband to more premises, starting in 2018.The Australian next-generation broadband network operator said it will include G…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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