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• The reselling of personal data goes from strength to strength

  09-01-2019 18:39
  In spite of the many moral panics of 2018, the abuse of personal data shows no sign of abating at the start of 2019.
  You might assume the somewhat overblown Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which everyone got all outraged that some political campaigns used data obtained from Facebook to target their messages, would have resulted in a far more reticent approach to the commercialisation of personal data. A couple of recent stories, however, indicate the opposite is true.
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• InterDigital says Huawei is setting a dangerous precedent with patent lawsuit

  09-01-2019 17:10
  Huawei has filed a lawsuit challenging the royalties it’s charged, but InterDigital CEO thinks the saga could have a much more damaging and wide-ranging impact on the industry.
  Lawsuits in the telco industry are not uncommon, while they are pretty much part of the daily routine for anyone who deals with patents. According to InterDigital CEO Bill Merritt, the dispute is not the problem, it’s the way that Huawei is hoping to get a resolution, heading towards localised judicial sy
  
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• VCs are spending more on less, how will that impact innovation?

  09-01-2019 17:05
  CB Insight has released its latest quarterly report on venture capitalist funding claiming new records are being spent in terms of total cash, but trends are leaning towards the bigger players.
  Over the course of the last 12 months, US venture capitalists spent a total of $99.5 billion funding businesses, though the number of deals stood at 5,536, the lowest since 2013. Later-stage mega-deals pushed annual funding to its highest level since 2000, though you have to wonder whether there will be a
  
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• Hafod’s Self-Service Customer App Supports A New Customer Charter And Drives Operational Efficiency Gains

  09-01-2019 13:56
  Following the successful launch of its new self-service customer app, Hafod Housing has achieved significant operational efficiencies and improved two-way customer communication with a new Customer Charter. The app was supplied by the UK’s leading housing technology company Aareon UK (www.aareon.co.uk). Hafod Moves to Self-ServiceWith a stock of over 4,500 properties spread across South East Wales from Newport and Cardiff to Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil, maintaining effec
  
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• Google unveils Assistant delights at CES

  09-01-2019 13:41
  It wasn’t going to be long before Google stole the show with a horde of updates to the virtual assistant. And in fairness, some of them look pretty useful.
  Who is leading the smart assistant battle varies depending on who you are talking to, but the importance of this segment is consistent throughout. With more users becoming comfortable with the voice UI, buying power will gradually shift away from the smartphone screen and onto connected devices. Whoever has the best and most prominent v
  
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• Samsung imposes Facebook on its smartphone customers and blocks uninstall

  09-01-2019 13:21
  Smartphone giant Samsung has apparently struck a deal with Facebook to force the installation of the app on its phones.
  The move, which was highlighted by Bloomberg, is not by itself remarkable. It’s not uncommon for smartphone OEMs to partner with third parties to preinstall their stuff on phones, although push-back against ‘bloatware’ has made this less common than it once was. What is causing some degree of backlash is the fact that it’s not possible to uninstall this
  
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• 75% of the telecoms industry think 2019 will be a great year

  09-01-2019 12:28
  Three quarters of the respondents to the latest Telecoms.com Annual Industry Survey feel positive or fantastic about the industry’s prospects in the new year.
  There is hardly a better way to usher in the new year with a reality check on the industry we are in, and an informed look into the era we are entering. The recently-published Telecoms.com Annual Industry Survey report can very well serve such purposes. Thanks to the enthusiastic responses by well over 1,000 telecoms professiona
  
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• Mission Difficult: Cleaning up Zuckerberg’s image

  09-01-2019 12:20
  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has promised a quest down the digital highways to make himself more visible as the PR machine attempts to save the company’s brand.
  Posting on his own Facebook page, Zuckerberg has stated he will host a series of discussions and debates concerning the role of technology and the internet in tomorrow’s society. Each of the events will be hosted on one of Facebook’s platforms, taking place every couple of weeks, as the usually publicity shy CEO attempt
  
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• Newtec awarded contract to boost affordable broadband services across Asia-Pacific on Kacific's high throughput satellite

  09-01-2019 10:52
  Newtec Dialog® platform will enable the delivery of applications to those beyond the reach of terrestrial infrastructuresSINGAPORE and SINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium, 9 January 2019 – Newtec, a leader in the design, development and manufacture of equipment for satellite communications, today announced that its Newtec Dialog® VSAT multiservice platform has been selected by broadband satellite operator, Kacific, for its new High Throughput Satellite, Kacific1, to significantly expand its broa
  
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• 30th anniversary of London’s Air Ambulance

  09-01-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  London’s Air Ambulance is marking its 30th birthday today, having launched its services on the 9th January 1989.
  A charity, it was set up by the newspaper baron who ran the Daily Express, who was alarmed at how long it took a road based ambulance to come to his wife’s aid.
  Baron Stevens of Ludgate’s wife, Lady Stevens died after choking on a peach. Stevens carried on with remarkable sang-froid but friends say that he grieved deeply. He could not get over the 25-minute delay of
  
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• Verizon launches $1m funding opportunity for 5G start-ups

  09-01-2019 01:00
  US telco, Verizon, has launched a new initiative aimed at expediting the rollout of mobile 5G services in the US. Speaking at the CES 2019 event in Las Vegas this week, Verizon's CEO, Hans Vestberg…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• US telcos mock AT&T over spurious 5G hype

  09-01-2019 01:00
  US telecoms giant AT&T has drawn sharp criticism from its domestic rivals over its handling of its 5G Evolution product. Last week an ill-advised software update from AT&T caused Android phones on its network to display a 5G network icon…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Telefonica faces allegations of tax fraud in Costa Rica

  09-01-2019 01:00
  Costa Rican investigators have raided the offices of two Telefonica subsidiaries over allegations of tax fraud in the Central American nation. Costa Rica's Justice Department is investigating the Spanish telecoms giant for tax fraud amounting to $2 million…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T accused of selling customer location data

  09-01-2019 01:00
  T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T have been accused of selling access to their customers' location data, months after the three US telcos vowed to stop the practice. A new report published by Motherboard claims that for $300 it was able to pay a bounty hunter to track the location of a T…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Deutsche Telekom upgrades 2.3m customers to ultrafast 250Mbps broadband

  09-01-2019 01:00
  Deutsche Telekom has connected an additional 2.3 million customers to ultrafast broadband speeds of 250Mbps, as it continues its campaign to bring ultrafast fixed line broadband services to millions of people across Germany…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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