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• Palo Alto boosts endpoint credentials with Secdo acquisition

  11-04-2018 18:50
  Palo Alto Networks has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Israel-based Secdo, specialising in endpoint detection and response security solutions.
  The Secdo capabilities will be used to improve the Palo Alto Traps solution, which claims to be able to disrupt an attack before it can infect an endpoint. Palo Alto has said the Secdo team will bring unique data collection and visualization capabilities to improve a company’s ability to distinguish malicious activity
  
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• Telefónica and Ericsson demo simultaneous 5G driving and streaming

  11-04-2018 18:49
  Spanish telco group Telefónica got together with Ericsson and others to show how 5G will power the future car.
  The novel part of this demo involved using 5G over the 3.5 GHz band to simultaneously control autonomous driving and content consumption. It used a EZ10 autonomous driving electric minibus supplied by EasyMile, containing an Ericsson 5G terminal and an infotainment platform from CarMedia.
  On show was high data transfer capacity and ultra-low latency enabling the simultaneous stre
  
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• Embracing a new type of MVNO

  11-04-2018 17:45
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Freelance Technology Journalist Kate O’Flaherty explores how AppVNOs are taking the market by storm. What are the opportunities and challenges in this area?
  A new type of MVNO is entering the market. Known as the ‘AppVNO’, its unique selling point is the ability to make calls and send texts via an app using an additional mobile number. In a sim
  
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• Europe tries New Deal for Consumers but faces industry worries

  11-04-2018 15:55
  The European Commission has unveiled a new proposal, the New Deal for Consumers, which will aim to increase consumer protections and hold offending companies more accountable.
  The move comes after months of the bureaucrats battling various different companies, most notably those in the tech and automotive space, who are bending (if not trampling on) rules in the bloc. Fines will be increased up to 4% of annual turnover for the guilty parties, while there will also be more room for collective act
  
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• New appointments reflect growth at Aareon

  11-04-2018 14:37
  Aareon UK Ltd (www.aareon.co.uk) has announced two major internal promotions. The move reflects significant recent success of Aareon as market leader in the UK social housing sector.Head of Business DevelopmentIan Lockwood has been appointed as Head of Business Development. Ian will build on the strong position and success Aareon has enjoyed in acquiring new business over recent years. Ian joined Aareon in 2002, having previously worked for both IBM and Xerox in public sector sales...Source: Rea
  
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• We’ve been doing it for two years so of course we’re the best – AT&T on 5G

  11-04-2018 14:11
  AT&T has offered a bit of insight into 5G trials which have taken place over the last two years, suggesting it will be the best because of them. Of course, no one else has been doing trials so we can fully understand the logic.
  “It’s no coincidence that AT&T is aiming to be the first US carrier to launch standards-based, mobile 5G services to customers this year,” boasts Melissa Arnoldi, President of AT&T Technology & Operations. “We’ve been ‘p
  
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• Zuckerberg admits he’s nowhere near defining hate speech

  11-04-2018 14:10
  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced the Senate’s Commerce and Judiciary committees yesterday and, while he did a decent job, he struggled to give straight answers to questions about the policing of hate speech.
  Zuck has a reputation for avoiding adversarial public encounters but he pretty much had to front up following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. While he didn’t exactly set the world on fire with his cautious answers, he didn’t seem to make any serious errors either and Fac
  
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• Miniila app for young migrants and refugees launched today to help the alarming number of children going missing and travelling alone through Europe

  11-04-2018 14:01
  Software company trellyz, creator of RefAid, partners with Missing Children Europe to create the Miniila appLondon UK. 11 April 2018 – 250,000 children are reported missing every year in the EU, which equates to 1 child every 2 minutes. Between 2014 and 2017 the equivalent of 60 school classes of children went missing in Sweden (1,736). In Italy where many start their journey through Europe 5,828 went missing, and in Germany there were 8,991 (867...Source: RealWire
  
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• The T-Mobile and Sprint love affair may be back on

  11-04-2018 12:02
  The will-they/won’t-they flirting between T-Mobile US and Sprint is seemingly back on as the pair head back to the negotiating table for the third time in four years.
  The restarted merger talks were originally reported by the Wall Street Journal, though the news has been very positively received by the market. Sprint share price is up over 17%, at the time of writing, while T-Mobile US has increased by 5.5%. The market is clearly excited about such a merger, though it does appear Sprint mi
  
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• Dynamic Spectrum Alliance congratulates the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa for publishing its TV White Space regulations

  11-04-2018 11:00
  Official response and comment from the Dynamic Spectrum AllianceJohannesburg, South Africa, 11 April 2018: The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) congratulates the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) for publishing its regulations on the use of Television White Space (TVWS). Marking a huge step forward for South Africa in enabling affordable broadband through dynamic spectrum access technologies, the achievement highlights the progress in the adoption of TVWS regulations ar
  
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• Telefonica and Ericsson to expand mobile TV offering in Latin America

  11-04-2018 02:00
  Swedish kit manufacturer Ericsson has signed a contract to assist Telefonica with the expansion of its Spanish language online TV content throughout Latin America. Telefonica will expand its online pay TV offering in 13 countries across the continent…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• T-Mobile and Sprint re-examine possible merger

  11-04-2018 02:00
  Talks over a possible merger between US mobile giants Sprint and T-Mobile have restarted, according to Reuters.Were the merger to go ahead…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Fixed Wireless revolutionises broadband services for 02 in the Czech Republic

  11-04-2018 02:00
  O2 in the Czech Republic hopes to provide minimum broadband speeds of 50 Mbps to 99 per cent of its customers by 2020, using a combination of Fixed Line and Fixed Wireless technology…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson and Telefonica to expand mobile TV offering in Latin America

  11-04-2018 02:00
  Swedish kit manufacturer Ericsson has signed a contract to assist Telefonica with the expansi0on of its Spanish language online TV content throughout Latin America. Telefonica will expand its online pay TV offering in 13 countries across the continent…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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